Konterr Brilliant and touching

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Johan Dondokambey The story was a great one about how a revolutionizing idea will live on even after the inventor is thrown aside. Yet the story mainly focus on how the big names in industries will only think of their own gains and advantages to reap from the market by keeping their own outdated innovations and not letting the people to get the best that ideas can offer. The acting is a decent overall. Jeff Bridges gets into character nicely in he managed to maintain Tucker's almost persistent smile yet he can give out the heated anger scenes the live they need. It's nice too see Elias Koteas and Christian Slater adding the right tone here. Joan Allen has also did a good job in completing the spouses and family scenes well.

Prismark10 Francis Coppola had ambitions to take on the major studios and failed. His experience lead him to make the film of Preston Tucker who wanted to make better and safer cars after World War 2 and failed as the big boys of the motor industry flexed their muscles and crushed the little guy with big ideas.The film was a hit with the critics but failed to gain much headway with the public. Its beautifully filmed like a homage to those Preston Sturges films and the colourful Douglas Sirk films. It has a wonderful zippy script and a mesmerising performance from Jeff Bridges which should had led to an Oscar nomination. Bridges brings a lot of pizazz to a guy with big ideas and a big drive and he is ably supported by Martin Landau, Joan Allen, Frederic Forrest and even his own father, Lloyd Bridges turns up as a sinister politician.It is heartbreaking to see such dream and ambitions crushed by government and big industry and its a theme revisited by Martin Scorcese when he later made The Aviator, his biopic about Howard Hughes, a character who also features in this film.This is surely one of Coppola's most underrated film and one of Bridges best performances.

Joejoesan Before this movie I didn't know anything about Preston Tucker or his car. Therefor I can judge this movie only by its entertainment value and not by its historical accuracy. Ever since The Godfather and Apocalypse Now I've been a big Coppola fan. I like the fact that - like Martin Scorcese - he keeps looking for visual experiments. Remember the mirror scene in Peggy Sue Got Married? That was never done before. Or the way time was used in Rumble Fish. The staging of One from the heart. Original and daring. In Tucker Coppola goes to visual extremes. The whole movie looks like a big commercial for Tucker himself - and it all works great. The story - an honest underdog must fight against the system - reminds us of the works of Frank Capra. The always brilliant Jeff Bridges is a very (or maybe too) likable hero. In the beginning he's maybe a little bit too unreal until you see how he reacts when he finds real trouble on his way. Then he becomes more human. But the real drama in this movie comes from Martin Landau. His scene in which he confesses that he "caught Tucker's dreams" is a moving one. The way he gets accepted into Tucker's family is so natural. Besides Landau I liked almost all the cast. Frederic Forrest, Mako, Joan Allen, Christian Slater, Lloyd Bridges… their roles aren't earthmoving, but work very well in the whole picture. Tucker's meeting with Howard Hughes (Dean Stockwell) is pure magic.Together with The Godfather part I and II, Rumble Fish and Apocalypse Now I consider Tucker: A man and his dream to be Coppola's best work. Too bad it's not available on DVD anywhere in Europe.9/10

Lee Eisenberg More than simply the triumph of human spirit, Francis Ford Coppola's "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" specifically shows how Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges) sought to challenge the dominance of the big automakers and they set out to destroy him. I had never heard of Preston Tucker before watching this movie, so it was fascinating to learn about his deeds. Bridges is great as the entrepreneur, with Joan Allen as his wife Vera.I see that Coppola had weighed making this movie right after "The Godfather Part 2". While I do believe that he made the correct choice in making "Apocalypse Now" - which I consider his greatest movie - this certainly would have constituted a fine follow-up to the films about the Corleone family. Definitely worth seeing.Also starring Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Mako, Christian Slater, Jay O. Sanders, Lloyd Bridges and Michael McShane (in his final role).