Protraph Lack of good storyline.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

ehrldawg During a lovers quarrel,a woman hitches a ride with a truck driver.Another film where the truck driver is a psycho. This movie is crap. I will admit to two cool attributes. 1).They have some cool camera shots of Goliath. 2).Munro finally catches up to Meatloaf. In his ragtop,Munro tries to pass Goliath. But Meatloaf puts Goliath into a jacknife. So now,a jacknife 53' trailer is chasing the ragtop. I giggle every time I see it.Meatloaf drives the Peterbuilt 18 wheeler.This is the second time ,in a separate film, he has driven a big truck.Meatloaf is a permanent A+ list actor.Kristin Davis,Victoria Pratt, and Amanda Tapping are hot!!erldwgstruckermovies.com

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/

ktmphd It is obvious that you are not to expect reality from this film. How many truckers ride a rig with nothing in the back but a kitchen & freezer for their kill? How many live for picking up stangers & killing them and yet are will known among their trucking field? How many decide to pick up a woman, bait her fellow and then play it out as if their were no such thing as the law and how many fools such as the hero would play this game without the police assisting them?Regardless, if you forget about the inconsistencies and overlook the obvious, this is a remarkably enjoyable film. It has a girl in distress, a villain, a hero, and a girl who wants to help the hero. The girl in distress turns out to be the hero, the villain turns out to be stupid and suicidal, as he arranges his own demise, the hero turns out to be a hero thanks to his girl and the innocent aid turns up dead.The movie belongs to Meat Loaf Aday (?). When did he become Aday? Anyway, I have seen him three times in a month. Once in the Outer Limits, the second time in Outside Ozona and the third in this flick and I must say I am beginning to believe this man can act far better than he ever sang. Give this film a look and see if you don't agree.