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Highway (2002)

Rate: 5
Viewed: 3/22

3/22: Jared Leto and Jake Gyllenhaal get together to do an extreme picture.

I was thinking of Jack Kerouac's On the Road while watching Highway, and because of the quote at the end, it turns out that I was correct after all. This is what the movie is about: two energetic but dumb male characters going on the road just for the hell of it.

Of course, crazy things happen, and some of them are funny. One example is when Johnny the Fox mentioned having been in the Nam for two tours. Well, it's true because he served under Sergeant Barnes in Platoon and actually survived the ugly firefight at the end.

Jared Leto is the star of the film, and the talent is clearly there. Jake Gyllenhaal is okay but seems stoned for the most part while Selma Blair is useless and therefore not needed. John C. McGinley and Jeremy Piven are better with the latter giving the best performance of his terrible career.

Highway moves fairly okay for a long while. When there's an occasional slowdown in the momentum, Jared Leto and Jake Gyllenhaal find a way to inject energy to get the show going again. Unfortunately, the movie dies badly in the last fifteen minutes. There were times when I had forgotten the point of the whole thing.

All in all, Highway isn't bad, but it doesn't end well.

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