Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Eric Curto I watched this film today, as its gonna be off Netflix soon, fortunately this is the Director's Cut, so it is titled "Backtrack"(probably a bit of irony for Direct/Star Dennis Hopper). The story isn't the first time we had something like this, although what occurs between Hopper and Forster was unexpected. The cast is A-List, Jodi Forster, Dennis Hopper, Joe Pesci, Paul Sorvino, even the crazy guy from Anger Management is in this(we even get cameos by Bob Dylan and Vincent Price) and all do a fine job, the film is known for its unfortunate behind the scenes drama that occurred between Hopper and the original production company, so its nice to see him being able to have the version he wanted released. There are quite a few drag on moments, but the overall tone of the film is good, its starts off strong, dwindle for a bit and than ends, this is probably where the film falters, usually as a film is getting close to its conclusion, the audience can feel it, its not felt here, a scene happens and than credits, no real resolution. I voted the film 8 out of 10(3 out of 5)because it has some great moments and the actors do give it there all.

sol ***SPOILERS*** The film "Catchfire" or "Backtrack" is only worth watching for it's unintentional or, if in fact is was really made as a comedy, intentional laughs. There's also what looks like actress Jodie Foster, as artist Ann Benton, first adult nude scene in the movie that will keep the men in the audience interested. As well as having the legendary 1960's folks singer, if that's what he was supposed to be, Bob Dylan swinging a chainsaw and reading his lines, about three of them, so perfectly that for a moment you didn't realize that he was acting or was in fact Bob Dylan! But just someone working on the set who by mistake got into the frame or camera range without knowing it!After her car breaks down on the highway Ann trying to get to a phone and call for help spots a double mob execution with mobster Leo Carelli, Joe Pesci, doing the executing. From that point on Ann is a marked woman by the mob who want her rubbed out before she can testify against Carelli and his hoods in open court. With the big mob boss or "Godfather" Mr. Avoca, Vincent Price, wanting to get the job done in shutting up Ann forever he gets top hit-man Milo, Dennis Hooper, to do the mob hit for him. What in fact happens is that Milo falls head over heels for Ann and in no time at all joins her on the lamb from the mob with him now targeted for execution, by Mr. Avoca, together his lover Ann Benton!***SPOILER*** The movie has a number of both car and helicopter chase scenes with both Milo and Ann making monkeys out of the slew of gangsters trying to both capture and then off them. This goes on for so long that you have no idea when the movie is going to end and when it does with all the bad guys ending up as toast it, the ending credits, are about the most surprising scene in the film! In them coming up so totally unexpectedly in the entire almost two hour movie that they almost knock you off your seat!Dennis Hopper who both stared and directed this turkey after seeing the finished results tried to totally disown himself from it and even had his name taken off the credits, by using a false name instead, as its director. As for him being the star of the film unless the film makers got someone else to take his place and re-shoot his scenes he was forced to accept what he got himself into. There's also a young Charlie Sheen as Ann's boyfriend Bob after him staring in blockbusters like "Platoon" and "Wall Street" being in an almost cameo role that made it certain for him that with some luck nobody watching the movie would ever recognize him in it. As for Joe Pesci who was a main character, the sadistic and mentally unstable mob boss Leo Carelli, in the film and should have been in it's top credits he somehow made sure, by giving those who made the movie an offer that they couldn't refuse, that his name would never appear in them.

iii_aaa_nnn WOW, I'd hate to sound opinionated, but anyone that rated this movie any higher than I just have must have an I.Q. that reaches unimaginably low depths which reach out beyond time and space and connect at planet "Hopper-is-a-retard-for-making-this-movie". WOW this movie STANK. Fred Ward's haircut looks SSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPIIIDDD! I actually considered mailing Fred Ward some money in compensation for that miserable haircut he owned in this awful film. Jodie Foster, of course didn't have much to work with but still manages a terrible performance throughout. Joe Pesci, oh my...Joe Pesci (who mysteriously is not cast) plays THE ULTIMATE stereotypical Joe Pesci movie character, complete with mob killing and constant use of the F word. You won't believe your eyes. Dean Stockwell, watching him in this mess made me feel bad for him because I actually thought he was either intoxicated or temporarily retarded throughout the course of the film. Jon Turturro must have been intoxicated himself when he agreed to be in this, along with Vincent Price, Bob Dylan, and Charlie Sheen. I know what you're thinking, GREAT CAST! I know, and it was the WORST great cast film I've ever seen. Dennis Hopper directs and stars, and does equally bad in both areas. How the man could have directed EASY RIDER and then this is FAR beyond my excellent imagination. His OUTRAGEOUSLY bad hit-man character accent is beyond the realms of horrendous, and only is equaled by the hilariously bad ending. They (Hopper and Foster) are the most uninteresting couple I believe that I have ever come across in my exposure to the world of cinema, and you will be cheering for them to lose and then be grandly maddened by the ending. What exactly are the two of them WEARING at that action filled conclusion? I don't know, but I do know that if I ever meet Dennis Hopper, I will make immensely make fun of him for being responsible for this waste of celluloid. Join me! IAN

wdrigby If that's what you want, you want this movie-- she bares it not once but twice. Or if Bob Dylan wielding a chainsaw is your bag... The script is clichéd and inept, the directing choppy, the excellent cast largely wasted. At least they look like they had fun making it. If it was better written/directed, the basic premise of the abductee falling for the abductor might be more believable. Jodie spends most of her time looking worried, until she suddenly mutates into passionate lover/co-conspirator. Joe Pesci managed to have his name completely scrubbed from the film and the packaging, although his part is not minor. Blink and you'll miss Catherine Keener, apparently in her first credited role. Somebody should put the soundtrack's sax player out of our misery.