Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.
Must be one of the truest songs of roadside America that the movies have produced.
– Charles Taylor,
Salon.com,
18 Sep 2004
rotten:
So mind-numbingly dull it makes you yearn for one of those World War II-spy instant-death pills.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
30 Sep 2004
fresh:
What plays for 80 minutes like an intolerable, self-indulgent road trip largely redeems itself in the last 10 minutes, through a moving explanation of the anti-hero's catatonic depression.
– Michael Booth,
Denver Post,
8 Oct 2004
rotten:
A road movie, but made by someone who seems so self-absorbed he might as well be asleep at the wheel.
– Robert Denerstein,
Denver Rocky Mountain News,
8 Oct 2004
rotten:
A passable, if often dreary, evocation of those '70s road movies in which disillusioned young men (and the occasional woman) took to the highway in search of America, the meaning of things or maybe just a hamburger.