Vanishing Point
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Movie Reviews of Vanishing Point
Movie Review: Vanishing Point
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good movie. My son-in-law really likes it so I decided to get it for him as a gift.Movie Review: Vanishing Point
Summary: 4 Stars
Viggo is such a good actor in this movie, but I don't like up in the air endings.Movie Review: Mopar to the People!
Summary: 3 Stars
I only remember bits and pieces of the original Vanishing Point, it's been so long ago. I recall enjoying the movie, though. This remake is a modest piece with rather skimpy production values, choppy flow, and a cornball plot. How many men do you know would steal a car (which is basically what Kowalski, the protagonist, does with the Hemi Challenger) and flee before cops of every stripe across a third of the country to make sure they were there for their wives' childbirths?
On the other hand, it was a hoot to see those magnificent Mopars ripping up the screen again. Not to mention the put-downs of other makes (I paraphrase): "Ha!, take that Chevy? It takes a Mopar to catch a Mopar," says the cop as he very implausibly fires up his own Charger to put the collar on Kowalski.
There is in this movie a not too subtle zinging of overbearing, stifling law enforcement in America at all levels. Only the county sheriff in the final blockade scene brings any kind of proportion to the whole matter while chewing out the feds. Shades of sheriffs' power of old! "The Voice," which is the nickname for the radio jock who follows and praises Kowalski, is constantly ranting against big government before a background of pictures of Thomas Jefferson, New Hampshire's state motto "Live Free or Die," and the like. This character could have been played over the top in order to ridicule supposed Aryan rednecks, but wasn't. Waco and Ruby Ridge reminders pop up now and then.
However, as if for balance, the desert encounter with a survivalist and his babe really was absurd.
Adjust your expectations and this movie makes adequate viewing, especially if you like big musclecars and a little anti-government rhetoric. The ending is left open, with a little glow of warmth for those who want it.
Movie Review: Vanishing Point Revisited
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, it wasn't as good as the original (they never are). First of all, they completely changed the storyline by making ole Kowalski out to be some sort of domestic terrorist trying to get home to his pregnant wife. If that wasn't bad enough, they totally screwed up the ole man in the desert (lots of beans) and put a bikini on the naked chick on the dirt bike. The only good change was the addition of the Charger police car, though they could have made that part of the chase last longer. Overall, it's worth a video rental. If nothing else, you get to see a good ole MOPAR tearing it up!Movie Review: Remake review
Summary: 3 Stars
For the hard core car movie enthusiast this re-make will not satisfy. The original is a classic genre film along the same line as "White Line Fever", "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry", "Duel" "Two Lane Blacktop" and "Sugarland Express" to name a few.
However, viewed as a made for TV movie (which it was airing on Fox) it is reasonable entertainment. The scene with the police officer using his own personal 68 Charger with a "Starsky and Hutch" light chasing our hero in his Hemi Challenger alone makes it worth watching.
Mike