Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student. Stealing a car and accidentally killing a highway patrolman, he becomes the most wanted fugitive in L.A.
I still don't understand why Mr. McBride and Mr. Carson elected to do the film but, considering the more obvious possible pitfalls, they could have done a lot worse. That is meant to be praise.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
fresh:
The result is a stylistic exercise without any genuine human concerns we can identify with -- and yet, an exercise that does have a command of its style, is good-looking, fun to watch, and develops a certain morbid humor.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
12 Aug 2004
rotten:
The attitudes on display are so distanced and derivative that the picture still seems to have no life or identity of its own.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
A wanton, playful film, belying the stated despair by its boiling energy.