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Summary: Don't eat the tamales
Review: I thought that Freeway was weird but gripping: it has a unique feel (that can also be experienced in Modern Vampires). This movie is something else.I do not know why it is called Freeway 2 other than to attract audiences taken in by the first film. It has no common characters (at least none that I could remember) and only the trickbaby and social abuse themes are the same. This is a movie of two very unequal halves. The first half involves White Girl and Cyclona in a juvenile jail. White Girl has been unfairly imprisoned and Cyclona killed her family. There are the usual stereotypes and a really good projectile vomit scene. They escape and create a trail of chaos witeh the extent of Cyclona's mental illness becoming clear. The best part of the movie is when they hit Tijuana. Now it gets really BIZARRE! Vincent Gallo is a cannibal, cross dressing, religious nut with a penchant for making child-sex movies that pretends to cure Cyclona of her demons and attempts to overfeed White Girl to health. Well, it doesn't make any sense but it does have a happy ending (not too far unrelated to Hansel and Gretel).
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Summary: SUPERB PERFORMANCE SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED!
Review: I won't go into too much detail describing this VERY ODD and VERY WELL DONE movie. Some of the other reviews do it very well. But I do wish to add my voice to some of the other reviews in praising Maria Celedonio's consistently believable performance as the innocently whacked Cyclona. Who is this actress? What else has she done? Believe me, this is worth watching if for only her fine acting. If you are not afraid of the odd and appreciate skillful acting--this one is for you.
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Summary: Grimm on a whim
Review: It's not often that a director returns to do his own sequel, but if there be a cautionary example of why that's a bad idea, FREEWAY 2 is it. This time out, Matthew Bright reaches further into his psyche for an even darker shade of Grimm--only to lose his grasp. The violence here, though given token rationale, feels more like Bright is exorcising his own demons rather than those of his characters. There's a fine line between creative moralism and blatant violence, and this time Bright crosses it. Too often, we see White Girl's rage overcome a victim, or Cyclone take out someone on a whim. Granted, Bright does effectively make the point that violent offenders have been seriously damaged as children. But at the end of the day, Bright's leads play God and get away with it. If all fables come to a point, FREEWAY 2's seems to be that violence is justified if you think the other person is doing wrong anyway. It's an obviously dangerous conclusion which should preclude parents from allowing their teenagers to see this movie without supervision and additional discussion.
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Summary: Natural Born Killers meets Pedro Almodovar
Review: Let me begin by saying that this is one of those films that you'll either love or hate. I don't think there's too much of an in between... This film is proof that not all the great "cult classics" were made a thousand years ago. Its also proof (like one of my other faves Liquid Sky) that a movie can be very campy *and* very well directed at the same time. - - Its also proof that you can have a female action hero who doesn't spend the entire film giggling and, trying to win back her old boyfriend, and who has to look cut, ditzy and vulnerable at the same time. I think Natasha Lyonne is one white girl as hard edged as Pam Grier and Shaft combined... She's great at delivering those Clint Eastwood gone awfully awry type lines, and no one can act at barfing like her... in fact, she spends practically the entire film binging, purging, runnin' from the law, and making sure her psychopath serial killer friend takes her meds so... oops, she doesnt accidentally kill another one before reaching the refuge of the mysterious Sister Gomez, who is cooking up a bit of evil via the secret ingrediants of her tacos and enchiladas As the film progresses, the story line becomes more and more campy and off the wall - - yet it is so well directed that despite the outrageously ludricous finale it works... - - the way things unfold, the great cast, some of the hillarious dialogue, the way things suddenly all tie in together, and the sound track too ! Here's my pick for some great before after watching. Before : Faster Pussycat Kill, Kill, Kill - - after, John Water's Cecil B. Demented which *IMHO* is not as well directed, but compliments this nicely and was afterall, directed by one of the godfathers of this genre.
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Summary: Natural Born Killers meets Pedro Almodovar
Review: Let me begin by saying that this is one of those films that you'll either love or hate. I don't think there's too much of an in between... This film is proof that not all the great "cult classics" were made a thousand years ago. Its also proof (like one of my other faves Liquid Sky) that a movie can be very campy *and* very well directed at the same time. - - Its also proof that you can have a female action hero who doesn't spend the entire film giggling and, trying to win back her old boyfriend, and who has to look cut, ditzy and vulnerable at the same time. I think Natasha Lyonne is one white girl as hard edged as Pam Grier and Shaft combined... She's great at delivering those Clint Eastwood gone awfully awry type lines, and no one can act at barfing like her... in fact, she spends practically the entire film binging, purging, runnin' from the law, and making sure her psychopath serial killer friend takes her meds so... oops, she doesnt accidentally kill another one before reaching the refuge of the mysterious Sister Gomez, who is cooking up a bit of evil via the secret ingrediants of her tacos and enchiladas As the film progresses, the story line becomes more and more campy and off the wall - - yet it is so well directed that despite the outrageously ludricous finale it works... - - the way things unfold, the great cast, some of the hillarious dialogue, the way things suddenly all tie in together, and the sound track too ! Here's my pick for some great before after watching. Before : Faster Pussycat Kill, Kill, Kill - - after, John Water's Cecil B. Demented which *IMHO* is not as well directed, but compliments this nicely and was afterall, directed by one of the godfathers of this genre.
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Summary: thelma and louise meet hansel and gretel in tromaville
Review: Natasha Lyonne is trashy eye candy in this surprisingly good sequel to Freeway. Don't be put off by the first 20 minutes - the communal vomiting scenes are indeed disgusting, but I promise you it gets better. The second half of the film is amazing, after outlaws White Girl, a bulimic bad-axe and her schizophrenic girlfriend Cyclona arrive in Tijuana to start a new life together. When they get involved with an old guru named Sister Gomez who Cyclona knew from her childhood, their fates take an unexpected turn into a world so depraved even they couldn't have imagined. This movie's got it all - serial murder, cross dressing, lesbians, interracial sex, cannibalism, eating disorders, mental illness, cult psychology, sexual abuse, prostitution, even love and understanding - I couldn't have been more pleasantly surprised by a film I got expecting to be terrible.
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Summary: A SHOCK
Review: NOW PLEASE DON'T GET MAD WHEN I SAY I NEVER FINISHED THE FILM, EVEN THOUGH I ONLY GOT THROUGH HALF, I CAN TELL YOU A LOT ABOUT IT.
FIRST OF ALL, THE REASON I NEVER FINISHED IT, WAS BECAUSE IT WAS TOO DISTURBING, AND AT THE TIME I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A SICK FILM MEANT TO GROSS PEOPLE OUT. BUT I'M HAPPY TO SAY I AM GOING TO RE-RENT IT THIS WEEKEND, BECAUSE I NOW UNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE.
NOW, I'M 13 YEARS OLD, BUT IF PARENTS ARE READING THIS, I WOULD DEFINITLY NOT RECCOMEND RENTING THIS FOR YOUR 13 YEAR OLD, OR EVEN 14 YEAR OLD, ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE IMMATURE, FOR IF THEY ARE, THE MEESAGE WILL BE OVER THEIR HEAD.
BE WARNED THAT THERE IS TONS OF VOMITING, TONS OF PROFANITY, TONS OF BLOOD, TONS OF MURDER, AND TONS OF SEX... (...)
I HOPE THIS REVIEW HELPED SOME OF YOU. IF YOU ARE NOT EASILY DISTURBED, I HIGHLY RECCOMEND RENTING THIS MOVIE.
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Summary: aaaah, now i get it.
Review: 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.
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Summary: aaaah, now i get it.
Review: 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.
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Summary: Freeway 2 is similar to Freeway
Review: On some of the reviews I have read on Freeway 2, some of the people do not see the connection with the first movie Freeway. I have seen both movies and like them both. Freeway is a modern and twisted version of the Little Red Riding Hood story. Freeway 2 is a very twisted version of the Hansel and Gretel story. That is the connection and why they both carry the same name even though the sequel doesn't have the same characters and a plot involving a freeway. I can't wait to see if there are more of the sequel upcoming.
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