Memorable, crazy movie

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Yes, the popular opinion on this board is correct - despite some good acting (with what they had to work with, I mean), this film is rubbish. It's nothing you have not seen before except with prettier kids.Like another reviewer I only got it see Morgan Fairchild and Joan Van Ark, both of whom look good but have very small parts. Fairchild looks lovely but has only 3 scenes; Van Ark plays her standard quivering mother with a similar number of scenes - she does not even get to react to the "twist" at the end! As for Dennis Hopper, it's a part he could play in his sleep. Obviously this was one of those "pay the mortgage" films.To be fair though, some of the music on the soundtrack is okay.

"Easy Rider" it of course isn't. It's not big cinema at all, just a low-budget TV film, which shows us an old Dennis Hopper, 45 years after his debut in Rebel Without A Cause. And in my opinion, not awful either (nor was I offended by realistic language).They didn't do chases, but I liked to see those propeller boats in the Everglades (also the dog race - things that aren't so often shown in movies). They did hardly do any action, it was mostly talk, but sometimes that is quite welcome to me - for a late-night mildly thrilling film. The psychology of kidnappers, victims, parents, and the internal conflicts in these groups were illustrated, more or less convincingly. Police didn't really achieve something, the kids basically took care of themselves. Witness the final voice-over.This film was sold in January 2009 with the German SFT magazine, together with "Finder's Fee". At 3.90 euro, I didn't think of it as a bad investment (and haven't seen the other film yet :^)

This film had quite a bit of action and a good cast. I was especially impressed with the plot twist at the end. Overall, its nothing incredible.... But, Dennis Hopper still did a great job in this one. Hopper's eccentric characterization of "J.D." was pretty awesome -- it made this direct-to-video film rate above average (in my opinion, anyways).

I only rented this movie to see Morgan Fairchild and Joan Van Ark, who turn out to each have about three lines of dialogue in the movie as the kidnapped teens' moms. I don't understand why these well-known women were hired only to be given three lines... Anyway, this is one of the most boring, stupid movies I've seen in a long time. It was absolutely awful. It's confusing because Dennis Hopper and Debi Mazar, who are in lots of other things, are in this trash. Why would they bother with doing such a low-budget movie?