Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Paul Andrews Blacktop starts at the roadside Blacktop diner where David (Lochlyn Munro) is freelancing as a comedian, his girlfriend Sylvia (Kristin Davis) is unhappy about their erratic lifestyle & demands a commitment from David which he is unwilling to give. In a rage Sylvia decides to leave & accepts a lift from a trucker named Jack (Meat Loaf Aday) who is in fact some sort of serial killer & marriage guidance counsellor all in one, he kidnaps Sylvia & leaves clues for David in a game of death that will prove David's commitment & love for Sylvia or get them both killed...This Canadian production was co-written, co-produced & directed by T.J. Scott & one has to say that it starts off reasonably well enough & sets up a potentially interesting story but does nothing with it & descends into complete predictable tedium. At first glance Blacktop just doesn't sound that promising on paper, I mean a film staring Meat Loaf as a psychotic trucker set alarm bells off in my head, I thought 'whoa there this sounds terrible' & I suppose it is but just not as terrible as I had expected. The script by Scott & Kevin Lund has the Meat Loaf character as some sort of psychotic marriage guidance counsellor which is just plain odd, apparently he goes around in his big black truck picking up girls who have had rows or arguments with their boyfriends & leaving clues for the boyfriend to follow him & fight to get her back in order for them to realise how much they love them. It's a bizarre storyline which I just can't really see working in reality, certainly not on a regular basis. Then there's the bodies that Meat Loaf keeps in the refrigerated part of his trailer which are never explained. Who are these people, is Meat Loaf a cannibal? Why is he keeping them in his truck? The basic question of whether Meat Loaf is a murdering psychopathic cannibal or just a good natured guy trying to make people see how much they really care for each other is never really answered & I couldn't help but feel that it should have been. The David & Sylvia character's are quite well fleshed out & you certainly stick with the film to begin with because of that & the whole 'is Meat loaf a psycho' question but the film goes nowhere, it becomes extremely repetitive with the same thing happening & at the end of the day is there anyone out there who doesn't think that David will save Sylvia? So in all with a better final two thirds in which the story actually goes somewhere Blacktop could have been good but unfortunately it isn't so it isn't.Director Scott was going for a thriller feel rather than an out and out horror, in fact I'd struggle to call Blacktop a horror film at all. There's certainly nothing I would call scary, Meat Loaf never really turns into some Leatherface psycho at any point & there's barely a drop of blood in it. In a bar brawl scene Meat Loaf slices a guy's ear off with a knife & throws it into his beer but otherwise there's no blood or gore at all, in fact if you were to remove that very scene Blacktop would maybe pass as a PG. There are a few half decent car stunts but nothing spectacular.With a fairly healthy sounding budget of about $3,500,000 Blacktop is well made but not overly memorable. The acting is alright, Meat Loaf is OK who has appeared in another film playing a big truck driver called Black Dog (1998) while Kristin Davis is probably better known for her role in Sex and the City (1998 - 2004).Blacktop had potential but doesn't do anything with it & ends up being a rather poor film, it tries but just doesn't succeed & I think it's as simple & straight forward as that.

myedsel There wasn't any mention of the Edsel in the previous comments, so I'll try to clue you in. This is a great movie if you like Edsels, the real star was the 1959 Edsel! Meat Loaf as Jack does a great job as the heavy, really scary! However, the best scenes are when David is chasing the bigrig Peterbuilt that Jack's driving, in his old 1959 Edsel, (this was the car Ford built in 1958 to fill the gap in their line-up to catch up with General Motors}. It was a ill-fated and well documented attempt. World know as FORD'S "FLOP"If you liked DUEL with Dennis Weaver, you'll love this one. The hero drives a much more interesting car.The hero wins in the end, thats the Edsel of course! for more about Edsels visit my Edsel group at autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/edselmail/

Zontar-2 Did JOYRIDE ('01) leave you primed for another psycho trucker flick? Try elsewhere. Loco long-hauler Meat Loaf shang-hai's girlfriend of wimpy Lochlyn Munro, whose recovery plan consists of shrieking her name as he tails Mr Loaf in his battered flivver. There hasn't been such a mismatch since Arch Hall Jr battled EEGAH ('62). Most of the slo-mo chase takes place on back roads (saves on shooting permits, I guess) where motels and fillin' stations exist in uninhabited areas (saves on extras!).For a film helmed by a former stunt and second-unit guy, this is mighty thin on thrills. The plot lacks one credible moment, and aside from some well-placed quips likely ad-libbed by Mr Loaf, the dialogue is insultingly bad. On the plus side, I dug the screwy camera angles, and the gear-grinding soundtrack sports some cool tunes. Bonus: Kristin Davis spends mucho time shirtless, and reduces Meat Loaf to hamburger.

Apollyon_Crash This film is *another* basic rip-off of "Duel", and suffers from everything that "Duel" rip-offs shouldn't suffer from. Bad acting (with the exception of Meat Loaf), pseudo-artsy ego-trip directing, pathetic attempts at psychology, story elements that make no sense (what exactly is the point of Victoria Pratt's character?), and really dopey dialogue.There are two positive aspects to this movie: impressive stunt driving and Meat Loaf, who riffs wickedly through the entire movie in a fruitless attempt to make it watchable. You have to give him credit for trying.In the end, this movie is nothing more than a waste of a 1959 Edsel...and time.2/10