This movie is great man, the scene at the end where you find out what happened was great it was made for tv so maybe doesn't have great money behind it. But this movie is good. If you get the chance to see it watch it some of you who know what to expect will enjoy it !
shareYeah, i completely agree with ya.
What happened in the end? I just saw like ten seconds after that the car blew up. Did he survive? He cant have survived, can he?
Anyways, i love this movie, its aces!
I think the end is supposed to leave you speculating. I (as a Christian) think he is dead. I think he realized that was the only way he could be with his wife.
'Do you believe in eternal life?'
'My wife does.'
'But do you?'
'... I'm working on it.'
'Kids are God; pay attention.'
But i dont think the wife died. I mean, that doctor was just lying all the time. And besides, the FBI agent, not the one in charge, said something like: "why dont we let him pass and go see his wife and the kid. We can arrest him at home, nice and easy."
I think Viggo was great in this role, as usual.
'A big white bear sits on top of a white hill way up north, so far north that there are no tree's, only snow, rolling whiteness that seems to go on forever...' - Bedtime story for henry.
But the FBI probably didn't know that she died. She died at about 7 o'clock in the morning and the FBI had probably been there all night waiting for Jimmy's arrival.
And you are quite right. Viggo is outstanding in this role. One of his best performances, I think.
'Kids are God; pay attention.'
One of the worst films I've ever seen. Utter, utter crap.
shareI switched off after half an hour in disgust. An insult to the beautiful original. Cleavon Little must be turning in his grave.
shareIf this was a big screen remake like Assault on Precinct 13, I could see the point of your protest........but this was MADE FOR TV, so STFU already!
shareIdiot. It doesnt matter what meduim we're talking about its still a remake and its still a crime against a beautiful work of art.
Do you know anything?
STFU. Youre such a spaz.
I don't care what medium it is made for.
This movie is a disgrace to the original, which is one of the best road movies of all time.
Go see the original, and forget about this crece of piap.
Why expend any energy defending the original movie to people who are obviously mentally challenged? Who but a poor helpless cretin would watch anything that featured Jason Priestly? Out of respect for the quality and dignity of the original version, the ONLY version, I will no longer insult fans of this TV Turd, or any other rip off attempts. Cherish the one true Vanishing Point and ignore the moron masses.
sharethis movie was a real surprise for a Tv movie. It is easily good enough for a big screen release IMO. It was very well done for a remake and any V8 buff would love this movie I anm sure. The original is , well , old now, still a great movie,And this remake can only help introduce another younger generation to what real cars are (instead of the jap crap that is the fast and the furious, thank God for the black Dodge in no.1 and the blue camaro and orange dodge of no.2) , real power, real steel. I enjoyed this movie and if you turned it off half an hour into it you missed all the good stuff. like the great chase with the cop in his hot black personal pursit machine, what was that car again?.
watch and enjoy
The car Viggo was in was a 1971 Challenger. The cop drove a Charger.
"I intend to live forever or die trying"
I love the first Vanishing Point. If you have never seen the first one then the tv movie would be a cool movie, but if you have seen the first one you will see that the tv movie SUCKED! The tv movie was too politically correct and it played to the mopar fans way too much. They talked about the hemi all through the movie,"it takes a hemi to catch a hemi" was that a dodge commercial or what? What a load of crap. Great car movies let the car sell itself like bullit,vanishing point and smokey and the bandit. The car was the star all by itself without any help. Please watch the first one and you will see that it is a much better movie.
shareI just finished watching it on HBO and let me tell you what a piece of sh-- this was. The original was so much better. No hollywood hype. Some genuine acting by Cleavon Little and Barry Newman. A totally original soundtrack. A completely better story line. I didn't like the liberties they took with the "new" plot. New Mexico to Idaho? FBI? Way too commercialized. I agree with killing braincells, car movies don't need the obvious, they sell themselves. Trust me, if you can find a DVD copy like I have you will really appreciate the original. I remember the last time I saw it when it was originally released. My dad took me to see it at the drive in. It was night of the big power outage in New York in the 70's.
shareOf course it played to the Mopar fans! The star was a 70 Hemi Challenger for goodness sakes. The cop said it takes a Mopar to catch a Mopar and if you'd had grown up with these cars, like I did, then you would have known that's what we said back then all the time. The true car buff knew the 426 hemi, if tuned correctly, was unbeatable on the street, period. The 440 six-pack gave it a run for it's money though. The 426 was banned from the NASCAR events by the Chevy promoters because they couldn't beat it. That's one of the reasons it became the engine for the dragsters, read the history books.
shareThis thing is so brilliant... just a great laugh. Come on man, how hilarious can Jason Priestley be? With this obviously fake beard and moustache, this ludicrous truckers cap and then these moralising speeches... brilliant!
Or what about Kowalski... he's in such a hurry to get to his wige, but ofcourse, in between he finds some time to spend almost a day at some native American tribe to get the spirit of the eagle inside of him... sure, what logic... but still, so hilarious.
Wish good old Viggo made more movies like this...
so what - it is trash - but still it is briliant and we like it very much... this movie changed my life!
shareI saw the original first and the remake about two years later. I loved them both in different ways. Neither one really had much money, neither one could even afford to use a real Hemi Challenger, but I think they're both worth watching. Although I like them just about equally, I have to admit the first one seems worthy to show in a film class but the '97 remake does not. But that's just not how I decide what movies I like and think are "good".
shareNeither used a real Hemi Challenger, but the in the original it was never passed off as a Hemi. It was never even mentioned that it was a Challenger. It was just a hotrod Dodge. The car wasn't the star of the movie, Barry Newman was. Now understand that I'm a Mopar fanatic saying this, but, this was just a 2 hour Dodge commercial disguised as a brainless action movie. Shameless....
shareyeah i thought it was great in that way that only bad films can be great. i like the fact that it took him a good few days of messing about to get there when he could have just waited until the next day to get a flight ... doh!
and a random naked indian guy always ups the score
plus hot chick in some kind of mini mad max setup, like, what!?
and the bizzar-o cheesey psychic dream sequences, heh
and the ending, like, what? so he jumped from the car at 100+ mph, survived, somehow kidnapped his orthan daughter from under the noses of the authorities and lived happily ever after on the reserve... could have made another movie out of all that material
fantastic, i taped it, and it's a keeper!
What! Even for a TV Movie, this was bad. The car was the only star of the show and what the hell was the point to the indian segment. It made no sense because it did nothing for the plot and only devalued the overall movie. I did not see the original but if this was part of it, I would say it was handled a lot better.
And as for the FBI, I dont think there as bad in real life as how they were portrayed in this film.
As for Vigo, I dont think this movie affected his career too much.
There is trash and there is trash but trash has more quality than this stinker YUCK
its mother,she just goes a little mad sometimes
"And as for the FBI, I dont think there as bad in real life as how they were portrayed in this film. "
They're a lot worse, you government toad. This wasn't exactly a great movie in every respect, but it's one of the few that tries to show the feds for the bumbling, murdering thugs that they are. I defy anyone who's familliar with waco or rubyridge to say otherwise.
Hi, I just watched Vanishing Point here in Brussels- I take what I can get as far as movies in English go, and I must say that I do love bad movies, so this one was great for me! LOVED the weird dream sequence thing that was going on and in my opinion Viggo is so terrific he makes ANY movie bearable. But I came into the flick after he was on the run and I had no idea why the police/FBI were after him the whole movie. If someone could fill me in, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks :)
shareI guess this remake totally sums up the difference between movie making in the 60s and 70s compared to movie making in the 80s-00s.
The original is an existentialist classic; the remake is just another piece of overbaked trash.
at least it was short.
J
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The Elephant at is best.
shareI enjoyed this TV-movie. Really nice v8 sound on my subwoofer during the car chases...they didn't have to show the whole end scene, but still it's nice with some variation on how movies end nowadays....I loved the sticker on sheriffs black charger: My Wife: Yes, My Dog: Maybe, My Charger(Dodge): Never.
shareHaven't seen the original, and whether it's just a horrible rehash of it, I don't care, since I loved it.. I admit to crying in the end.
shareThis movie was really, really bad. Now after seeing it, I just can't stop wondering why the heck did I bother to watch it till the end.
I mean come on, all the characters (other than viggos little less shallow character) were just like some puppets with no more purpose than to just randomly pop up on the screen, say a few lines and then just disappear. Like the fact that viggo spends some time at some random indian reservate trying to have a sauna inside a tent (inside a studio with really bad props) I still don't quite get what the heck was that scene all about.
Then on another scene, a blonde comes riding on a motorcycle to viggo in the middle of the desert. All it raised was questions like: What in the world is she doing in the middle of a desert riding a motorcycle? How has SHE found him when the feds haven't, IN THE MIDDLE OF A DESERT?! And altough watching Baywatch and all the nice ladies from Mr. Hefner's mansion running up and down the beach is something I could do for days, I could not get over the fact that in this movie there just had to be a totally useless scene with boobies?
Further on, she (whoever the actress was) suddenly turns her 'sexswitch' on and tries to have some intimate time with viggo, without even properly knowing him, never actually talking to him more than a few words. I wish I'd bump into some lightly dressed femmes every once in a while with their swtiches suddenly bursting into action.
And as already mentioned above: Jason Priestley and the fake moustache. Jason "90210" Priestley for crying out loud, playing a disc jockey of some radio station making deep analyses of viggos situation on the road vs the "mighty evil gov".
I have not seen the original and I really do not know whether or not I really want to now. The original might actually be a good flick as the story behind this movie was not totally taken out of a cow's large intestine, but then something went totally wrong when they started filming. In the end, I did not care a flying space monkey whatever it was that happened to viggo. Hopefully the character was eaten by some vicious commando-chipmunks.
This movie sucked.. for example it was completely not believable, the guys only crime is speeding and maybe (arguably) theft but they chase him like he's some turban-headed demon terrorist from Valhalla heading for the WTC. And Priestleys cowboy-DJ-act was so bad it actually started to be good. But not nearly good enough to save this pile of doodoo. See the original instead. I haven't yet, but it can't be worse than this.
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