Vanishing Point

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Albus S Feb 5, 2019 Why is Barry Newman not featured on this page, and then checking out his page Vanishing Point doesn't appear on his list credits? WTF? See more

Rey G Jan 19, 2019 An early 70's road movie. Former policeman and war hero is now in a new business. He transport hot cars. Fast. He drives empty desert roads with no rest, just some speed and gas. Police is crawling up his tail and he follow some of the action behind him on radio where a show got some inside information and broadcast it. This is a solid car film. The car is amazing, the roads are great and I dig the music. Weird people show up all the time and it's a fun little ride that never seem repitative or dragging. Cool acting and some sweet scenes and a competitor to "Duel", a very similiar film in many ways that also came out in 1971. This is not as great, but not far from it. 7 out of 10 naked ladies on motorbikes. See more

Theodore G Jan 3, 2019 Fantastic existentialist and allegorical car chase movie. Really. One well worth catching.

Anakin R Nov 14, 2018 This 70's cult classic gets better with age. It's not only the greatest car chase film of all time, it's a glimpse into early 1970's counter culture. As Super Soul says, Kowalski is the 'Last American Hero' - the last free soul lost in a country he no longer can exist in. The film has themes much deeper than it's credited for and if you watch it on bluray, give the commentary by director Richard C. Sarafian a listen. See more

Oct 31, 2018 Saw in 1972 and didn't really think about until a few years ago. Itunes wasn't renting and trying to order in Canada was a no go through DVD shops. Finally found one on Amazon at the same time I found a copy of Traffic (2000). I ordered both since iTunes doesn't rent either of them. 46 years later it is still a great movie. See more

Finn R Aug 17, 2018 Uncritical nihilistic narcissism and gear-head egoism masquerading as an avant-garde existentialist piece of cinematic poetry; in truth, it's philosophy is didactic and shallow, a promising premise undeveloped. This is not MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, a film that similarly is structured as one long car race, but which, underneath its revolving rims and revving engines, is visually surreal, politically engaged, and philosophically challenging-subjective freedom means social responsibility and personal destitution. While VANISHING POINT cleverly draws upon the desert, the horizon, and the traffic line as metaphors for modern alienation and the compulsion toward nothingness that is the Freudian death drive, the movie fundamentally misunderstands these concepts and so reactively resorts to the typical lone wolf, "last American hero" archetype that offers no escape from alienation, but is its own retroactive cause. Thus the slow and limited drip of narrative information and character background that we are privy to-which is the most interesting and creative aspect of the movie-ends up feeling less like a realization of the "existence precedes essence" mantra, instead seeming to bely the confusion over what exactly that means. See more

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