This Dennis Quaid/Danny Glover/Jared Leto thriller is terrible, and if you've seen it, you've likely already forgotten it, but I gotta know...

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How the hell did Leto know where Quaid's son was, and who were the people the son was left with? This film is so dumb that it seems the answer should be obvious, but none of it is making sense to me.

You thought watching it in HD would make it better - but it didn't, did it Marty? :ph43r:













(They love this thing on HDNet Movies. :lol: )

Sort of. I had never seen it before, but vaguely recalled underwhelming reviews. It's true that I would probably never rented it on DVD, but the invitation to see it in HD was too strong. I couldn't resist. And my weakness has caused me to now weep about the time I wasted.

To be fair, there are some really good performances by R. Lee Ermey, William Fichtner and Ted Levine as small town cops, and SWITCHBACK would have been a lot better if it had been about them, rather than the Quaid character. Quaid is terrible in this film, Glover is miscast, and Leto is barely there. The finale, though, features some excellent stuntwork and special effects, so the film isn't a total loss.

I'm sure that Jeb Stuart convinced the studio to let him direct a movie, and pulled this old script that nobody would have ever greenlit before out of his bottom drawer.

I saw this in an empty theater on a miserable, snowy Saturday night, and I enjoyed the first half hour so much that I remember thinking, "Wow, this is cool! I hope they don't screw it up!" -- and almost immediately it began to get worse and worse and worse. Unlike Marty, I preferred the beginning of the movie to "the excellent stuntwork and special effects" at the end, which I don't even remember.

Dennis Quaid is a charismatic and charming actor... who is often terrible. Or rather, I should say I'm always suprised when I watch him in something and he isn't charismatic and charming, which really isn't the worst thing to say about an actor - being charismatic and charming is hard. It's just that when he's off his game he seems to incredibly forced and almost confused, as if he's straining to make sense of what he's got himself in the middle of. COLD CREEK MANOR comes to mind as a project in which Quaid really seems not to know what's going on as everything goes on around him.

Sometimes known as the Harrison Ford Syndrome.

I remember seeing this on video and

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having already guessed who the killer was from the theatrical trailer where they clearly show the gloves he is wearing at one point. Weak!

And not one of you dudes can answer my question? Must I be forever haunted by this terrible movie?