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Release Date: 23 April, 2002 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $9.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
Freeway Reviews
"Bob, you see what happens when ya got bad manners?"
I never tire of watching this movie but it's not because I can relate to the characters. There's something sick and twisted about all of them, as well as the odd fascination for a film that was marketed as Little Red Riding Hood for the 90's.
Our newly crowned Queen of the Oscars, Reese Witherspoon, leans heavily on her Nashville roots to perfect Vanessa Lutz, a 15 year old gun toting, ass whipping tornado of bravado and charm hell bent on retribution because..."I'm pissed off and the world owes me." You see, Vanessa was raised the illiterate daughter of a street corner hooker with a methadone habit and ex-con step-father who likes hitting the crack pipe before hitting on Vanessa. Our heroine decides to punch out in the family wagon after mom and dad are hauled off to jail, to go visit her estranged Grandma. Things soon get interesting when her car breaks down, and she is offered assistance by the ultra-slimey Keifer Sutherland as the "I-5 Killer" Bob Wolverton.
Enter gunshots, cops, juvie detention, catfights, jailbreaks, and side splitting courtroom hilarity. Reese deserved some recognition for this role, she's awesome, and she actually won a few obscure Best Actress awards in Europe. I'm sure there's some deep message about today's dysfunctional society and it's overlords, but damned if I care. Check your brain at the door and relax, Vanessa will handle the situation.
The DVD is actually not bad with an above average transfer and very good 5.1 audio. Also an interesting commentary by writer/director Matthew Bright, who also scored with Modern Vampires, but bombed with Freeway II. 5 Trailers
Mr. 24 gets Reese-ed
It's not a comedy. It is an emotionally charged story of survival and the ability of a 15 year old girl, from a boken home, to fight being handled and stereotyped by the system.
Reese Witherspoon plays the teen {she was 20 at the time} with such amazing fortitude that you really would'nt want to tangle with her. Mr. Sutherland arrives quietly and subdued with a slick performance that sometimes reminded me of his father.
Again it's not a comedy. But these 2 characters will give you some hysterical and funny vignettes to send you howling. Reese kicks it up and Kiefer has a well deserved epiphany.
Be patient. It's a slow start but stick with it. A truly fine film.
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