Mjeteconer Just perfect...

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Art Vandelay I don't know whether it means anything and I don't care. Random nudity. Late 60s rock n roll soundtrack. Casual pill use. Hot rod and cool driver. Racist pigs. Hippies that you don't want to see die like Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider. The open road. Fantastic photography. Even the ''love interest'' scene is wonderfully under-stated. This movie makes me wish I was 16 years old at a Friday drive-in in 1971.

alexanderdavies-99382 I still have vivid memories of watching "Vanishing Point" back in the early 1980s - those were the days! I recall the dodge challenger, the scene with the corrupt police and the cool music. Barry Newman in the leading role, was a film star who never was in a sense. He seemed destined for fairly big things but after a few routine movies, his career was knocked off course and he was soon forgotten. His character gives the distinct impression of being rather a troubled soul who doesn't belong any longer. His only aim in life, is to drive and to deliver fast cars for a living. He is a restless spirit but is also tormented by his past. We are given glimpses of his life via some great flashback scenes. Barry Newman is OK, he fits the bill without being very heavyweight as an actor. Cleavon Little is outstanding as the blind radio D.J who guides Barry Newman past police traps. The photography and the music are the main assests from "Vanishing Point." The stunt driving is easily on a par with the car chase scenes from "Bullitt" or "The French Connection." This is still the best "Road" movie, better than even "Easy Rider" and that one is very good.

rioplaydrum A stupid plot, fast cars, cops being wrecked in their own cars and motorcycles, a very cool driver, and oh,...A gorgeous naked chick on a Honda motorcycle in the middle of the desert.You can't think this stuff up! Throw in a hip black radio host and you've got it all.This is the archetypical 70's rebel movie. A Vietnam Vet and disgraced cop racing across the United States in a bad-ass car against all odds.What can go wrong? ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! A true American Classic.So many movies that year fell by the way side totally unremembered.This film delivered and always will.Vanishing Point smokes like a ten-ton bomb that waits to go off at the very end.Loved it. Will always love it.

BoomerDT I can remember reading a review for "VP" when it was released that said something to the effect of "I wouldn't want to be driving down the street of a drive-in movie after this ends and the kids in their cars are leaving" Being 16 years old at the time-the reviewer was absolutely correct. VP packed them in at the drive-ins, this was still the era of big engines and cheap gas. In a few years the Arab oil embargo, sky rocketing insurance rates, and pollution regulations would cripple the Detroit's muscle car industry, but Hollywood in the early 70's still made car chase movies like "VP," "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" and "Smoky & the Bandit" in the tradition of Bob Mitchum's 1950's epic, "Thunder Road" that featured about 90 minutes of car chases weaved through a thin plot line.VP has a minuscule plot that logic totally escapes any logic:1) Kowalski is supposed to be driving this Dodge Challenger from Denver to SF for a car delivery service, presumably to someone who will take possession of a muscle car in mint condition. Kowalski completely drives the complete crap out of it, on and off road.2) Kowalski leaves Denver around midnight, but we see him driving in daylight along the breathtaking stretch of I-70 adjacent to the Colorado River in Glenwood Springs, which is only 156 mi. from Denver. Where has Kowalski been all evening? (come to think of it, the only time we see him drive at night is leaving Denver)3) We only see him stop once for gasoline. I would imagine that the 440 Magnum Dodge engine being driven at 120 mph might get 8mpg. So with a 20 gallon tank Kowalski is going to have to stop at least every hour & half. Speaking of which, why don't the police, instead of chasing him with cars, choppers and setting up roadblocks, just wait for him at the few gas stations that are few and far between in the remote sections of Ut & Nv?4) the AM radio station, KOW that has the DJ "Supersoul" that aids Kowalski looks like it is in a tiny town in western Nv, I would guess 100 watts, yet Kowalski is able to pick this station up quite clearly all the way from Colorado.Enough logic. great car chases. hot looking naked chick on a motorcycle shows up later for no reason. not a bad way to spend 90 minutes.