Mathew Bright? Not very bright anymore. How can the same (apparently rational) person write and direct one of the better films of the 90s (`Freeway'), then write and direct an embarrassingly inept sequel that comes close to being the worst film ever made? It is baffling but not beyond comprehension.
`Freeway 2' is a disaster because it tries to refute and deny every implied principle of tempered navigation through untempered waters and madness' that made the original `Freeway' great (as if artistic laws don't exist and can be wished away). In `Freeway 2' Bright has made the biggest insult possible to his own achievement in `Freeway.' In other words, the thin line between Greatness and Utter Manure has never been more conclusively demonstrated. No one will ever be rediscovering `Freeway 2' in the years to come; that's for damn sure (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, it sure ain't). Its only value is as a demonstration model of every nauseating and meaningless DON'T of artistic endeavor to put beside the precariously balanced, fragile, darkly informative DO'S of `Freeway.'
`Freeway 2' is a disaster because it tries to refute and deny every implied principle of tempered navigation through untempered waters and madness' that made the original `Freeway' great (as if artistic laws don't exist and can be wished away). In `Freeway 2' Bright has made the biggest insult possible to his own achievement in `Freeway.' In other words, the thin line between Greatness and Utter Manure has never been more conclusively demonstrated. No one will ever be rediscovering `Freeway 2' in the years to come; that's for damn sure (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, it sure ain't). Its only value is as a demonstration model of every nauseating and meaningless DON'T of artistic endeavor to put beside the precariously balanced, fragile, darkly informative DO'S of `Freeway.'