Highway

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2002 Filmcritic.com

Er, what?

This Gen-X road trip has an interesting performance from the always-engaging Jared Leto, plus small and hilarious turns from the likes of Jeremy Piven, but overall this film is a nonsensical dud. Ostensibly, it's about a run to Seattle brought on when Leto's Jack gets caught in bed with a mobster's woman. Of course, the mobsters give chase.

What's the point? What's to be learned? Aside from presenting kooky, Hunter S. Thompson-style characters and introducing completely off-the-wall situations that will never, ever happen to you, Highway doesn't have many guts.

Think of it as an armadillo, belly up on the... ah, skip it.

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Rating

2.5 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: James Cox
  • Producer: Guy Riedel, Scott Rosenberg
  • Screenwriter: Scott Rosenberg
  • Stars: Selma Blair, Danny Comden, Sean Dalgarn, David J. Guppy, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kimberley Kates, Jared Leto, Sean E. Markland, Mauzner, John C. McGinley, Arden Myrin, Jeremy Piven
  • MPAA Rating: R