Very best movie i ever watch

Don't Believe the Hype

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

FREEWAY is a modern-day reworking of the classic Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale, with the characters and their situation transposed to the present day. This is a rather obvious reworking of the theme; for a writing assignment I myself had to do exactly the same kind of story. Unfortunately the makers of this film decide to go for a scuzzy, predictable vibe that's heavily indebted to NATURAL BORN KILLERS, which it copies the look and feel of somewhat extensively. Reese Witherspoon tries very hard as the lead character but she's so repulsive that it's never possible to warm to her or sympathise with her plight. Kiefer Sutherland is better as the villain of the piece, but his character is more of a caricature and thus not very imposing.FREEWAY's structure is episodic in nature and seems to go along from one extreme situation to the next. The violent prison interlude is probably the best part of the film, but instead of making something suitably dramatic or exciting, Matthew Bright's script is simply full of endless profanity and extreme violence designed to shock and offend the audience. It doesn't; instead, it all feels rather juvenile and unsatisfying.

I seen this movie when it first come out I was 15 at the time and idolized Witherspoon's character Vanessa. . this has to be Witherspoon's greatest performance.. She really gets stuck into her white trash role and is unbelievable likable and admirable.. This film has everything from drug abuse.. Psychopathic killers..girl prison fights..violence .cholos and hoodlums and lots of very dark comedy..all the characters are likable and all very very well acted.. Amanda plummer as Vanessa s hooker mother is brilliant especially being hogtied.. This movie is a MUST WATCH One u will definitely want to own on video

Freeway is one of those films that are okay but still manage to be a little disappointing because it's so damned apparent that it could have been much better. It's perfectly clear where the story is going early on, yet it still takes forever to get there. When it finally arrives, writer/director Matthew Bright throws a great left turn into the plot and sets up a potentially fascinating second half of the movie. That never materializes because Bright ignores almost all of the possibilities suggested by his great idea so he can relentlessly focus on a main character who is too impervious to care about.Vanessa Lutz (Reese Witherspoon) is the 15 year old, illiterate spawn of poor white city trash. Her drug addict stepfather (Michael T. Weiss) molests her and her at-best-borderline crazy mother (Amanda Plummer) turns tricks on the street in the parking lot outside the motel room where they all live. When they get arrested, Vanessa tries to flee to the grandmother she's never met. Along the way, she runs into Bob Wolverton (Keifer Sutherland) a counselor for troubled youth who offers her a lift and some help with Vanessa's beyond screwed up life.If I tell you there's a mention at the start of the film of a serial killer targeting young girls in Vanessa's town, can you guess where her and Bob's relationship is headed? That is where it goes, though writer/director Bright waits a long time to get it there and then shamelessly foreshadows it right before it happens, as though anyone watching this movie didn't see it coming. But then he takes what you expect and completely upends it, leaving you without any clue where Freeway is going next but anxious to find out.That feeling doesn't last long because writer/director Bright takes almost all of the interesting directions his story could go and reduces them to comic relief so he can put Vanessa through her paces in an afterschool special that has no moral or "message to grow on", unless that moral is "bad things also happen to bad people". It's only when Freeway needs an ending that writer/director Bright abruptly picks up some of the potential he's cast aside and tries to cobble together a big finish. I'm not sure the origins of this motion picture, but what it turned out to be was a starring vehicle for the young Reese Witherspoon that went nowhere. Not because she isn't cute as all get out and doesn't do a fine job here. It's because Vanessa dominates the whole show and is a sociopath but unfortunately, she's not one of those intriguing and grandiose sociopaths. She's one of those petty, boring sociopaths who turn up in police stations every day. The movie takes great pains to spell out all the terrible things that were done to Vanessa but none of it seems to have had any effect on her. Vanessa has no depth or inner life and cruises through her horrible existence like a shark looking for the next fat seal to eat.That might not have been a problem if Freeway had become the kind of thriller suggested by writer/director Bright's very clever left turn. In plot dominated tales, it's not always necessary for characters to be relatable or even all that interesting. By essentially becoming a study of a two-dimensional character, though, the film only highlights the lack of connection the viewer can have with Vanessa.Witherspoon is good here, as is Keifer Sutherland and Brooke Shields. Brittany Murphy has an odd role as a scarred paint-huffer and Dan Hedaya and Wolfgang Bodison are fine as two detectives, though the movie can't keep straight which one of them is supposed to be the good cop and which the bad cop.In most respects, Freeway is perfectly acceptable entertainment, with reasonably good writing, directing and acting. I can't shake the feeling that it could easily have been more than that.

This was an awful, horrible, stinker of a movie. Bad acting on the part of all involved. Completely RIDICULOUS characters and situations. I felt insulted watching this. When I first turned it on, I thought it might be a spooky stalker style movie, then it just got worse and worse. I thought I was watching a movie written by a bunch of high school people. One thing I can't stand are totally ridiculous scenes that would never come close to happening in real life. I also can't stand clichéd moments and fake acting. I thought Reese Witherspoon's character was laughable as were the rest. Do yourself a favor and avoid this piece of junk.