Movie Reviews for Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point

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Movie Review: vanishin point
Summary: 3 Stars

I had no problem getting the movie. But I had to send it back. It froze up on me and wouldn't play to the end. I cleaned it but discovered that it had a bad scratch on it. They got it back and said it was fine and made me feel like i was trying to gyp them . I love this movie and want it really bad but if it won't play no sense in keeping it. I still want the movie and hope to get it and ad it to my Viggo Mortensen collection. Thank you.

Movie Review: VP1 vs VP2
Summary: 3 Stars

VP1 is an absolute classic of a movie. It has everything, screenplay, cinematography, casting, acting, directing. VP2 isn't bad at all, and the scenery is just super, but it doesn't hold a candle to the original. I saw VP2 on Cinemax. I own VP1 on DVD...AWESOME! 3i9.

Movie Review: You really should see the original movie instead.
Summary: 2 Stars

They totally took out the whole core of what made the original movie tick. Barry Newman's Kowalski is an anti-hero of the first order- an ex-hero-cop who left the force because of all the dirty doings going on. He pops pills to stay awake to make his car deliveries. And he gets to be an icon of "rebellion against the man", even though he had no intention of doing so. In this movie, Viggo Mortenson's a family man just making car deliveries. His wife is pregnant and almost due, but he wants to make one last big delivery- of a super white Challenger. Course his wife has complications, and he's in a race to get back home to the hospital. He attracts the attention of local law enforcement due to his wild driving and speeding, and for some reason they decide to make an example of him. At one point one of the officers says, 'why don't we just let him go home, see his wife, and pick him up in a week?'. The same thought runs through the viewers mind, oh, right after the law finds out WHY he's off and running! And WORSE, they give this movie a happy ending!

The only redeeming feature is the car shots- especially the supercar shoot-out between the Challenger and a Charger. Which is why I gave it two stars

But this remake has cut all the soul out of the original movie. In the first movie, there's a touch of mysticism (there's a scene where Kowalski drives past himself in a car he just delivered going in the oppostite direction). There's a feeling of hopelessness in Kowalski that explains the ending better. And nobody will ever consider the remake to be a cult classic like the original is.

Ladies will enjoy all the shots of Viggo in this movie, I'm sure. And if Kowalski had been played by Jessica Alba I probably would've been kinder in my review. But as it stands, it's a pale imitation of the original.

Movie Review: Not really
Summary: 2 Stars

VP1 was an astonishingly good representation of the impact of the 1960's on the next decade...it had a great car and a good cast; great soundtrack and good scenery as well as a "feel" for what a lot of the USA and its inhabitants were like (low budget so it used a lot of real people and locales). Kowalski had tried the straight and narrow and then the crooked and lowdown. He had failed (not always his fault and did have some successes...medal of honor ,e.g.)at each...had suffered the loss of his love,so, all that was left was death.
VP2 has the Dodge Challenger R/T and a vapid, inane plot. What a waste of a great repro/rebuilt classic muscle car! Get VP1 and see if,even after 35 years, it does not hold up...