Freeware Movie Reviews

If you are looking for a good laugh, get this movie! An oldie, I've been looking for it on cable for 10+ years. Beverly D'Angelo, Beau Bridges, William Devane, Jessica Tandy, Hume Chroyn, David (?) (the guy who played "Sledgehammer") and other character actors you'll recoznize. One of the funniest scenes has George Dzunda smelling women's panties.

The quickest way to sumerise this - if you like Jim Bacchus/Darien Cain films, then you'll love this.

I don't, but I appreciate that this is a better film, if only because these two have less to do with this film - Jim's moved to producer role, & Darien has only a small role in this - ...

If you like women with fake boobs (there's one here who looks like she's upsized), and a succession of mild and poinless lesbian scenes, then this is for you.

Our poor heroine is a bit of a loser, she screws a bevvy of women, drains them, then has an angst session about it.

The finale confrontation is the only laughable moment of the film, and that's unintentional

OK, everybody seems to agree that Misty Mundae is really cute. And I also love Katie Jordan. But despite the fact that both of those delicious hotties are in this one, I thought the sexiest scene by far was the one with vampire Paige Richards and victim Ruby LaRocca near the end of the video! I mean, when Paige seduces Misty and Katie, the scenes were somewhat bland and unimaginative. But her scene with Ruby was steamy! Maybe it was the sub/dom element involved, but I just thought it was incredibly erotic! Also, there's a scene near the beginning where Paige seduces a female stripper. That one was also quite good! I just wish all Seduction Cinema videos were this erotic!

It has Misty Mundae in it!! Okay, so it's only one scene, and she dies, but she is dressed and undressed as a Catholic Schoolgirl! Watch this film!

this is quite the disgusting movie. Reese Witherspoon is intense in this one but she cant help with its obnoxious characters and too many other horrible things. Sutherland is totally a bore and when hes had his surgery and his face is messed up and he has his vocalizer its so funny,...a total garbage infested movie, blecchhh

This movie was supposed to be scary. It was just stupid. If you're a Reese Witherspoon fan like me, this movie will disappoint you. Rent a different Reese movie. I recomment Election.

Freeway (Matthew Bright, 1996)

Matthew Bright, recently responsible for the Ted Bundy film (one of a slew of serial killer bio flicks quickly released after the success of Chopper), made, as his debut, a twisted auto wreck of a movie that should have had some sort of catchy tagline like "hitch a ride on the freeway of stupidity!" Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and getting Reese Witherspoon a slew of Best Actress nods from various alternative film critics, the movie really is like a particularly gruesome auto accident; you feel guilty, but you can't look away.

Witherspoon (back when she was still taking chances with her career) plays Vanessa Lutz, a fifteen-year-old illiterate reform school student with a very, very bad home life. Her mother (Amanda Plummer, playing the exact opposite of her character in The Prophecy) is a hooker, turning tricks outside the motel where they live; her stepfather (Michael T. Weiss, unrecognizable in these pre-Pretender days) spends the time while his wife is out working the streets smoking crack and sleeping with his stepdaughter. Not the best atmosphere in which to raise a kid, yes? Mom and dad get arrested, for various reasons, and Vanessa's parole officer shows up to take her back to foster care. Having none of that, she escapes, has one last long goodbye with her fiancée (Bokeem Woodbine, just off his career-making role in Dead Presidents), and then sets out for Stockton, California, where her grandmother lives. Her car dies along the way, and youth counselor Bob Wolverton (Kiefer Sutherland) stop to help; she accepts, but starts thinking after a while that Wolverton is actually the I-5 Killer, a serial murderer who's been preying on young hookers up and down the Southern California coast.

Don't worry, no spoilers there. We're still in the first half-hour of the movie. It gets better from there. ("Better" in the loosest sense possible.)

Bright saves this movie from utter idiocy by playing it against itself. It's way too funny to have ever been meant as a serious drama, but you get the feeling that's how the script was originally conceived. Bright uses visual cues and scenes that approach utter silliness (Witherspoon walking into a diner covered in blood, sitting down, and ordering breakfast without realizing anything's amiss-one of the movie's funniest bits) while allowing the actors to do their things. He did assemble a fantastic cast for this, taking chances on the down-on-his-luck Sutherland and rising stars Woodbine, Witherspoon, and Weiss (whose small part in here is as chilling as they come), and adding such wonderful bit parts as an inept guy from the sheriff's office (the omnipresent Dan Hedaya), a bisexual nymphomaniac (Brittany Murphy, in her second big screen role), and a completely insane prison warden (Susan Barnes, whose performance here, like those she had in They Live and Repo Man, would alone make the film worth watching).

It's simultaneously brilliant and utterly stupid, especially when you realize how the interminable opening sequence ties in with the film-which, if Bright did his job correctly, you won't until the climax. It has all the earmarks of becoming a major underground cult film ("brilliant and utterly stupid" in this quantity is rarely seen; Return of the Living Dead, Liquid Sky, Squirm, and Head all come to mind as other examples of this particular style of filmmaking). But for the life of me I can't figure out which wins out, so I'm stuck giving it a ***.

One other thing to note. This was billed as the "special edition DVD." If someone would please tell me what's so special about a DVD whose chapter selection doesn't even allow you to select every chapter and has the bare minimum of features to show even competency in releasing a DVD (in other words, buy the VHS tape if it's cheaper), I'd love to hear the explanation. SO while
the movie gets a ***, the DVD presentation gets a zero.

I have fond memories of this movie. When I was younger I had a thing, and still do, for thrillers or horror films that are driven (no pun intended) by cars. While killer car films were my favorite, I often enjoyed the occasional thriller that only had a single link to automobiles. My mother brought a VHS copy of Freeway home for me back when it was still in print and I remember watching it a few times and liking it though I considered it a more "adult" movie since it paid more attention to plot and character than vehicular mayhem. Years later, I lost the video yet still remembered the movie. Why Anchor Bay released this I really cannot say. You can ask most of your friends and family and I feel confident to say most of them will never have seen it. A quick check of the Internet Movie Database tells that the film did not do well at the box office. This is a movie that has wandered around in the shadows of late night cable for over ten years making the occasional impression on someone who never forgot it. The movie, I suppose, was a failure to it's creators. But it's a strange little gem. A weird vision of late-night killings on the freeways in LA in the 1980's (where I have heard freeway killings were very frequent). I don't know who spoke up for this movie and got in on DVD in widescreen but I bought it as soon as I saw it, walking wide-eyed to the checkout counter and leaving the cashier wondering how I could be so excited about some cheap DVD with a generic looking cover. It's no masterpiece of suspense but it is certainly a tight little thriller that has gone overlooked and, despite it's DVD release, probably always will. Pick it up.

freeway 2 definitely didn't live up to my high expectations after seeing the brilliant original freeway. It's alot darker, and alot pervier than the first, substituting disturbing visuals for witty dialogue. Natasha Lyonne is all right, although i definitely don't think this was her greatest effort ever. Vincent Gallo was very effective as sister gomez - horrifying. One of the many problems i had with this movie is (and maybe i'm being way too literal)that bot of the girls thought sister gomez was really a she! couldn't they see the five o'clock shadow? i saw this movie last night, and i fell asleep at 5.30 this morning, still thinking about her (or, rather, him.) don't get this film unless you are prepared to sleep with the light on for a loooong time.

okay, this movie was junk, and the one that came before it wasn't too much better, but i've noticed that a lot of people haven't seen the connection between the two. basically, the first one was little red riding hood. the second one? hansel and gretal. you're welcome.

This movie was amazing, although the first "Freeway" was my favourite movie of all time. This movie was faboulous. Natasha Lyonne was great - her best movie ever . Vincent Gallo is faboulous as well. Cyclona is an obsessed freind and a crazy killer. You can't blame her. She was some what possesed by the devil. With Sister Gomez being a tranvestite killing children, putting intestines on the stairs, and making Cyclona watch her do, um, naughty things, This movie was incredibly frightning but wonderful. It was a little hard to handle.