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 !
shareThis movie tries so hard to copy the original and its events,while twisting them around to the point they make no sense.Obviously they copied the original,while trying to tone down any racism,sexism,drug use....and it just doesnt work.Viggo and Christine are poor choices for actors,and just their presence here ruins any attempt at a decent outcome.Add poor writing,and the horrible Jason Priestley,and the wacked out Feds and local cops,and you have a train wreck.Top it all off with a supposed impact into dozer blades at 160 mph,and zero body damage done to the Challenger (a 72-74 model),and you have a complete failure all the way around.The producers of this joke should have been banned from ever writing another production again.Heck,I could have done a better job,and I have no experience with films.I would have put as many original actors in the remake as possible in cameo appearances (to add some professional credibility),taken an unknown and cast her as a lady biker(someone with less butch-ism and much slimmer),lost the slow twang VP music and put in a rocking score like the original,dont show the Challenger breaking down (that shows a weakness),never let the rear window get shot out (that puts Kowalski on the defensive and fearing his life),lose the female radio station manager (even though I think she's cute)and replace her in the image of a John Amos,take Priesley and his "voice" and send him straight to the trash replaced with a new-wave hippie type (complete with tattoos and headband/sunglasses).
shareThis movie looked like pieces of a nostalgia ad for 60s-70s muscle cars spliced together with a plot written as an excuse to get a guy to race across country in a car when flying would get him home in hours. The car, a white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T with a hemi engine, is the centerpiece for several chase scenes. Car enthusiasts may get a kick out of that part. I didn't think it was done very well - more as an afterthought to placate sponsors than as a core part of the film.
Our hero is very sympathetic. He broke the law - driving 100 mph in what was probably a 50 or 60 zone - but he was trying to get to his sick wife. Okay, so he panicked and took off without thinking, it could happen. Then you get a cantankerous old cop who sees a long-haired punk and goes by the book and can't see outside his narrow world and won't listen to a legitimate emergency situation. If he had listened and been a decent human being, there would have been no movie as Jimmy would have been escorted to the nearest air field and sent on his way.
Jimmy is also a decorated war veteran. There is a flashback of him in uniform, but you can tell his long hair has been tucked up into his uniform cap. What a cheap-ass film.
This film assumes the worst of our authority figures and makes a victim out of everyone else. It is so heavy-handed in this regard that I could not take it seriously. You have one voice of reason - the lesser FBI guy - who is ignored. Finally at the end of the film you get one reasonable county sheriff who tells off the FBI guys and pulls his men out of the road block.
And let's not forget the psycho cop with the black Dodge Charger who wants to play chicken on the highway at 100 mph. He's spouting off all this happy *beep* about honor and the road and how Jimmy knows what it's all about and blah blah blah. Jimmy just wants to get home and isn't intelligent or rational enough to succeed. He's beating his head against a stone wall instead of going to the door and knocking.
And let's throw in a dash of Christian and Native American mysticism, all mixed up and cliched, while we're at it.
This movie was just bad. The more I think about it, the worse it gets. There is only one reason to watch this film more than once, in my opnion: VIGGO IS GORGEOUS IN IT.
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This movie is the child of the original, except it was aborted halfway through pregnancy, so we're left with a disgusting fetus.
Sorry... what I'm getting at is this movie does nothing but detract from the glory of the original. Go watch Vanishing Point (1971) and never speak of this cheap knock off again. For the sake of the children, if nothing else.
The only bad part of Vanishing Point (1971) is that it ruined my sex life. I can't get off unless I see a naked chick on a motorcycle.
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I thought it was a good movie personally. yet I think of it as a completely different movie not a remake
sharejust wanted to thank you for this post, it helped me out a lot understanding what i missed...and thanks for being courtious enough to use the spoiler tags
please excuse my spelling etc, it's late and i am just not spell chenking tonight, lol
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Obviously you have NEVER seen the original. This movie is utter crap and if I ever meet the screen writers, director, producers or ANYONE else who helped out I will bitch slap them! As a matter of fact I'm going to make it hurt so bad their relatives will feel it!
sharePlease slap em double time. From me..
I live in Europe.
I doubt I will ever have the chance..
at least we got to see Jason Priestley in a horrible role/moustache/voice, and ridiculous clothes. And to somehow try to turn this into a meaningful, contrived, "watch out for big brother" anti-gov't movie, with this plot and premise, in 1997 or whenever?? Just too damn funny. Except of course to the crackpot who wrote a couple pages ago about all those bloodthirsty feds. I must be one of them myself.
It's been beat to death on this discussion, but the original meant something. I saw it as a 17yr old kid, and loved it. Talked about it and hopefully spread it to a few others. Guess I'm glad some people liked the remake, just not sure why they did! But for you ones that haven't seen it yet, get the original, clear all ideas from this remake one out of it, and watch it. I worry that seeing this new one will skew how anyone sees the classic, but they will have see it.
The original sucked. It was pointless nonsense. At least this version had a plot.
shareWhy 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.
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"Who but a poor helpless cretin would watch anything that featured Jason Priestly?" Indeed. Tombstone was a big fail and although that movie didn't "feature" Jason, neither did this one.
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Agreed, great flick.
I haven't seen it since it's debut on Fox TV so many years ago.. but here I am in 2013 still smiling thinking about it.
7/10 easy.
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I'm a huge fan of the original and expected to hate this movie, but I really dug it. The ending was fantastic.
shareim sorry but this is vanishing point the pc version. Only good parts of the movie was all the car scenes other then that it was a crap movie. The original had some heart and soul to it.
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