Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

artsag Dennis Hopper was a major collector of modern art and it shows in this film,its worth watching for the abstract art influences. The gallery, the art works Jodie is an artist that Hopper falls for and the graphics as you go through reflect the modern and abstract influence. Cannot fault the cast although I agree the performances were stilted as necessary from the mafioso themes a group of friends make a film because it would be fun takes the important underbelly out of it and the sound track is dated film background. "You artists have no sense of reality you gotta get out= pound the pavement".

oneguyrambling Word on the (imdb) street is that director Dennis Hopper was so p*ssed with studio interference that he asked for his name to be removed from the credits. Apparently he submitted and initial cut that ran over three hours and was then distraught when it was deemed too long and culled to a lean 90 minutes.As a viewer I can only pass judgment based upon what I see, and I can sympathise with both parties. For one I cannot fathom sitting through another 90 minutes of this eye-vomit, but on the other hand it seems that an absolutely insane editing decision renders the viewing experience incomprehensible.The upshot of that is as always no-one wins.Consider this: Anne (Jodie Foster) is an avant-garde artiste who witnesses a murder within approximately 27 seconds of entering a 'bad neighbourhood'.This moment of incredibly inopportune timing puts both mob and the FBI on her trail after she refuses to testify and shoots through to pursue a lifetime on the run in disguise.Dennis Hopper plays Milo, the elite hit-man hired by the mob to eliminate Anne and put an end to this nonsense, only Milo is apparently entranced by Anne's artwork and almost instantly changes from a cold blooded hit-man into a creepy stalker-rapist.Now. While all this is indeed mostly reprehensible it is not yet implausible. But wait there's more… (I would ordinarily warn of Spoilers to a 20 year old film here, but they are blabbed all over the back of the DVD cover so I don't feel so bad.) After Milo kidnaps Anne, threatens her life, forces her to don sexy (a word that should never appear in the same sentence as Jodie Foster) lingerie and rapes her – her words – we cut abruptly to a scene apparently only a short while later where they are both very much in genuine love.Wait. What the f*ck? Anyway the rest of this god-awful mess exists if you care to find it. I wouldn't suggest it. Repeatedly punch yourself in the groin instead, it's more fun and burns more calories. Unfortunately for me I didn't take that option and was still sitting glassy eyed when the credits rolled… The only other thing worth mentioning is that this stain of a film actually boasts a top-notch cast of actors punching well below their weight; Fred Ward, Joe Pesci, John Turturro, Dean Stockwell, Catherine Keener and Charlie Sheen all wasted parts of their lives appearing in it.As for the 'headliners' Jodie Foster was always miscast in a role that demanded 'sexy', and Dennis Hopper over-acts to sh*t in this film. If that isn't enough he adopts a ridiculous and annoying accent. Not being an American I have no idea if the accent is authentic or not and frankly I don't care, all I will say is that if it is legit perhaps it is advisable to simply not have characters from that particular region in film from this point on.Like this film there are things that don't need to exist.Final Rating – 3.5 / 10. If I was Dennis Hopper and had to live with the realisation that I was even partially responsible for Back-Track / Catch-Fire / Cinematic-Turd I wouldn't seek to remove the name Dennis Hopper from the film, I would seek to remove myself from Dennis Hopper.

sol ***SPOILERS*** The film "Catchfire" or "Backtrack" is only worth watching for it's unintentional or, if in fact is was really made as a comedy, intentional laughs. There's also what looks like actress Jodie Foster, as artist Ann Benton, first adult nude scene in the movie that will keep the men in the audience interested. As well as having the legendary 1960's folks singer, if that's what he was supposed to be, Bob Dylan swinging a chainsaw and reading his lines, about three of them, so perfectly that for a moment you didn't realize that he was acting or was in fact Bob Dylan! But just someone working on the set who by mistake got into the frame or camera range without knowing it!After her car breaks down on the highway Ann trying to get to a phone and call for help spots a double mob execution with mobster Leo Carelli, Joe Pesci, doing the executing. From that point on Ann is a marked woman by the mob who want her rubbed out before she can testify against Carelli and his hoods in open court. With the big mob boss or "Godfather" Mr. Avoca, Vincent Price, wanting to get the job done in shutting up Ann forever he gets top hit-man Milo, Dennis Hooper, to do the mob hit for him. What in fact happens is that Milo falls head over heels for Ann and in no time at all joins her on the lamb from the mob with him now targeted for execution, by Mr. Avoca, together his lover Ann Benton!***SPOILER*** The movie has a number of both car and helicopter chase scenes with both Milo and Ann making monkeys out of the slew of gangsters trying to both capture and then off them. This goes on for so long that you have no idea when the movie is going to end and when it does with all the bad guys ending up as toast it, the ending credits, are about the most surprising scene in the film! In them coming up so totally unexpectedly in the entire almost two hour movie that they almost knock you off your seat!Dennis Hopper who both stared and directed this turkey after seeing the finished results tried to totally disown himself from it and even had his name taken off the credits, by using a false name instead, as its director. As for him being the star of the film unless the film makers got someone else to take his place and re-shoot his scenes he was forced to accept what he got himself into. There's also a young Charlie Sheen as Ann's boyfriend Bob after him staring in blockbusters like "Platoon" and "Wall Street" being in an almost cameo role that made it certain for him that with some luck nobody watching the movie would ever recognize him in it. As for Joe Pesci who was a main character, the sadistic and mentally unstable mob boss Leo Carelli, in the film and should have been in it's top credits he somehow made sure, by giving those who made the movie an offer that they couldn't refuse, that his name would never appear in them.

lastliberal A very strange film with a sterling cast.Anne Benton (Jodie Foster) was in the wrong place at the wrong time and witnessed a murder. Now, the mob and the police are after her as she flees rather than enter witness protection.On the police side, we get Fred Ward (Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins). On the mob side, we have the boss, Vincent Price; John Turturro (Barton Fink, "Monk"); Tony Sirico ("The Sopranos"); and Joe Pesci (Goodfellas, Raging Bull).Cameos by Bob Dylan, Charlie Sheen, and Catherine Keener added up to a great cast. Too bad the movie wasn't as good as the people in it.Dennis Hopper (Hoosiers, Easy Rider), who also produced and directed the movie, played Milo, a hit man hired by the mob to catch the girl. Unfortunately, they didn't figure him to become obsessed with her, and what's more we didn't figure that she would develop Stockholm Syndrome.This film came in between Foster's two Oscar winning performances in The Accused and Silence of the Lambs. We get a good look at Jodie's Fosters not once, but twice in the most skintastic performance of her career. She is one good looking woman.