BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Micitype Pretty Good

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

lewishalket I first saw this movie not long after it was released and have always liked the setting of the movie - the dark winding frosty back roads which feel like they are in the middle of nowhere and going nowhere.This movie is playful, funny, eerie and suspensful all in one, whilst staying mostly believable. I would recommend giving this a watch for anybody who liked Joyride (Roadkill), Duel and similar movies.

atinder I find DVD for very cheap, it was so cheap, I not even going to tell you the price.I thought this would be really bad, it wasn't at all, it was decent movie. First twenty minutes of the movie was really entertaining and there few fights scenes in this movie, which I thought was really good. As the rest of the movie kind of dragged on little, there Friends are on a road trip.Who end up getting chased by some other person in the car, which make them fall out with each other.The rest of the movie is very predicable and the ending was so bad it was actually very funnyI thought acting was really good from the whole cast

Scarecrow-88 Tough Yale collegiate football star Scott(Shane Johnson), his naive, virginal 17 year old brother Robby(Jason Dohring)who idolizes him, and troublesome, wise-cracking school chum CJ(Josh Hammon)with a scar down his face, are taking a brief visit to Wisconsin to get laid and drink a few bears when a bar-fight at a roadhouse ensues. Scott saves the day, but the three must get out of dodge in a hurry, finding themselves on snowy dirt roads being chased by a psycho driving a black Cadillac. Picking up a Wisconsin town sheriff, Charlie(Randy Quaid)whose car broke down on the side of the road, they continue to receive endless threats by the Cadillac which is playing cat'n'mouse games with them. Soon, after stopping at a diner, a message regarding a sin one of them committed is painted to Scott's Saab windshield and the group realizes that the driver in the Cadillac might be targeting someone in particular. Scott, believing Charlie is the one aimed at, leaves him, but the Cadillac driver(..despite what he does to Charlie)continues to pursue them with the film following their efforts of evasion. Scott's car will suffer heavy damage along the way as the Cadillac driver will stop at nothing to cause great harm to them. The reasons behind the chase and the one truly being sought after will soon be revealed as Scott finds that his car's radiator is on the fritz and the cold, dark wintry Wisconsin woods offer no shelter of comfort whatsoever.Not a bad little low-budget chiller basically taking "Duel" and replacing the mad truck driver with someone behind the wheel of an ominous black Cadillac. The desert setting of "Duel" is replaced with the icy roads and frosty woods of Wisconsin. But, unlike films such as "Duel" or "Joy Ride", where the madman behind the wheel's face is never shown, we do get an opportunity to see who the culprit(s) are in this particular film. The film takes place almost completely at night, often inside the confines of the Saab car with the leads(..and Quaid for a little while before he "departs"). The flick is quite economical if you think about it, with a great deal of the film inside the car displaying the reactions of these frightened young men being pursued by a psychopath. The characters are your typical males preparing for their futures, finding themselves in a most dangerous situation, isolated into the backwoods and roads by someone with an ax to grind. The setting at night sure adds punch to this little film. Very reminiscent to films like "Dead End" and "Wind Chill", other nice little surprises concerning characters in a car haunted by things beyond their control. The ending(..why they are being chased and who the ones responsible are)isn't exactly fresh or original, but this is a nifty little ride until then. "Black Cadillac" ultimately, like other films of it's ilk, preys on the fears of many of us who worry about being caught in a place we are not familiar in circumstances spiraling beyond our control.

tedg There are some things that naturally are cinematic. Among these are car chases, smoke and snow. Similarly on the story side, people cast together in a small space with an outside threat and unrevealed past relationships.It terms of flow, the most reliable device is a character who is not what he seems.On these safe poles is strung the structure of this movie. Overall, it isn't any worse than other fare that doesn't matter. Some of the photography — especially of the menacing Caddy — is good.But someone smart enough to use these devices should also have know the dangers. They are so familiar that in order to be effective they have to be exaggerated beyond themselves.To have exaggerated chases these days requires CGI and some recourse to the supernatural. To have the historical revelation matter it has to be extreme, completely strange. When the twist comes and you learn which things are not as you suspected, these days that has to be at least two major twists. Big ones that involve the skin of the thing.You'll find the same pattern in romance where too much thrill eats the center and two little prevents it from slaking onto the blade.Maybe its impossible to be delicate and surgically sharp these days, which is why genre films are already bankrupt, reduced to selfparody.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.