First off, let me say, I did enjoy the original Freeway and I liked Bright's script for GunCrazy. I have enjoyed Natasha Lyonne's work in Slums of Beverly Hills and American Pie. At the bare minimum, this sequel ought be at least a good B-movie delight, but it isn't. It is awful beyond belief. The movie is about Lyonne, a bulimic delinquent who is sentenced to 25 years in jail. She resides with a lesbian, homicidal cellmate. The two escape and through various adventures, rob, steal and kill their way through. They come across Sister Gomez, (played by Vincent Gallo) a transvestite nun, who is an apparent savior that is going to cure Lyonne's bulimia and the cellmate's homicidal feelings. Gomez has other ideas on his/her mind as he/she planning to bake a pie with little kids in it.
Fairy tale themes and sleazy black comedy were all better done in the original. Here, they are badly handled. The original film had a sympathetic character in Reese Witherspoon but Freeway 2's Natasha Lyonne is anything but sympathetic. Lyonne sticks with her cellmate after she realizes the cellmate is a cold blooded killer. Lyonne sticks with this murderer so far that she has a lesbian relationship with her. She also makes her living posing as a hooker and robbing her tricks. She also isn't intelligent. She agrees to her cellmate's escape plan after knowing that the cellmate has a few screws loose in her head. She also hooks up with Sister Gomez and allows Gomez to be her savior even though any rational person can tell that Sister Gomez is not all holy and saintly just by looking at him/her. Yet, what's most objectionable is the film's morals. It points it's fingers at bad parenting, a right-wing judgmental society and uses those reasons to justify a character's cold-blooded murder of senior citizens, cops and a night watchman. It attacks the justice system for giving harsh sentences to people (i.e. the system is harming not healing people) but yet glorifies it's lead character when she resorts to vigilante tactics. The film's treatment of bulimia is sickening. Lyonne's bulimia seems more like a lifestyle choice (that other people just aren't accepting to) than the real-life disease which has emotionally harmed and/or killed people. All, in all, a film, that should have been sleazy fun ends up becoming truly offensive trash.
Fairy tale themes and sleazy black comedy were all better done in the original. Here, they are badly handled. The original film had a sympathetic character in Reese Witherspoon but Freeway 2's Natasha Lyonne is anything but sympathetic. Lyonne sticks with her cellmate after she realizes the cellmate is a cold blooded killer. Lyonne sticks with this murderer so far that she has a lesbian relationship with her. She also makes her living posing as a hooker and robbing her tricks. She also isn't intelligent. She agrees to her cellmate's escape plan after knowing that the cellmate has a few screws loose in her head. She also hooks up with Sister Gomez and allows Gomez to be her savior even though any rational person can tell that Sister Gomez is not all holy and saintly just by looking at him/her. Yet, what's most objectionable is the film's morals. It points it's fingers at bad parenting, a right-wing judgmental society and uses those reasons to justify a character's cold-blooded murder of senior citizens, cops and a night watchman. It attacks the justice system for giving harsh sentences to people (i.e. the system is harming not healing people) but yet glorifies it's lead character when she resorts to vigilante tactics. The film's treatment of bulimia is sickening. Lyonne's bulimia seems more like a lifestyle choice (that other people just aren't accepting to) than the real-life disease which has emotionally harmed and/or killed people. All, in all, a film, that should have been sleazy fun ends up becoming truly offensive trash.