HIGHWAY (a review)

HIGHWAY (a review)

Isn't it fun to see movies with stars before they become super famous? This movie (made in 2002) has Jake Gyllenhaaaaaaaal, Jared Leto, Salma Blair and John C Reilly (from Scrubs).

The story: when a guy is caught screwing a man's wife he takes off before the husband can have his feet broken. They head off to Seatlle so his friend can find a girl he once made out with that he has been holding a torch for and along the way pick up a woman and meet a drug user/dealer/something and meet an alligator boy and, uh, other stuff.

Was it good?

This is so not my thing. Maybe it's the drug stuff that I don't see as wow cool or the endless wandering which to me feels more like a drug thing than storytelling, but I just didn't get into it. It's one of those movie filled with weird and wacky which can work, but you have to be just in perfect sync. Usually it means getting the mindset of the main character. For instance, in INTO THE NIGHT, Jeff Goldblum is a man who sees his girlfriend screwing another man and leaves her and develops insomnia and then one night he encounters a woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) on the run and helps her as she tries to get some money together to pay off some mean guys. It has weird, strange, wandering all through it but it works for me because I get the whole insomnia/do anything to help Michelle Pfeiffer thing. In this movie, the whole running away to Seattle and then hooking up with Salma Blair and everything didn't connect for me.

*** NOT RECOMMENDED ****