Detour

Being a giant fan of Fahey and Busey I found this impossible not to miss.

The film itself has many bad qualities. The sound is all over the place. The levels peak mid shot and the mics pick up annoying chunks so sound, like Fahey leather jacket making that leather-jacket-sort-of-noise. The amount of footaged re-used is amazing. I can think of a least 5 glaring examples.

However, then there is the cast and plot. Fahey (who supports the film perfectly) is great is a role that he can play in his sleep. Busey limited usage shows and his pyjamas are exceptional. Russo really only shines in the action sequences. Madsen give a good as he wants (which I don't believe is very much) as the charater has very little to do and didn't require someone like Madsen to play it.

If you can manage to endure the technical problems this turns out to be a fairly enjoyable waste of time.

I found my way into the an audition with the Producer, whom was very nice but as the conversation got to "my part" I had to interrupt and inform him I had never acted and I didn't have a SAG card, so he put me in straight and center with more screen time than most. It's hard for me to give an unbiased rating as Gary Bussey was a amazing so I can say we filmed in rough conditions, before they blew the structure we were filming in. That's when I learned how hard actors work. If you can find the movie, I highly recommend

But are they really bad to the bone? Jeff Fahey, James Russo and Darnell Williams play a gang of thieving thugs in black leather jackets and old blue jeans. Gary Busey is the accomplice with a thing for silk pyjamas. The real badguys are mobsters in suits. Michael Madsen, disappointingly, only gets to play the alcoholic cop who looks like Elvis in decline. Throw in a mob of good-hearted farmers, and there's your cast.

I thought I'd worked out the ending half way through, but I was wrong.

I thought this was just going to be a macho movie full of shooting, explosions, cursing and loud music. But when Danny returned to his hometown for what waitress Inga said was the first time in 10 years, the movie went in a whole new direction (temporarily). The music became more mellow though not necessarily my taste. The pace of the movie became more comfortable and I found myself starting to enjoy it.

After a big robbery in New York City, with the usual action,it is not clear just who has the money. Mo tells Ziggy on the phone that Danny must have it, though Mo is the one having sex on a big pile of cash. Ziggy comes to Danny's town, and he is soon followed by the boys that Grasso sent. Eventually, Grasso has to come himself, in a great big limo.

Danny, meanwhile, has to deal with the death of his mother (although he didn't get the message, his return came, coincidentally, just in time for the funeral). He is left to run the family farm and the family's dairy business (he doesn't want to do either). His former girlfriend Britt has married Danny's stepbrother Burl, who is the bumbling sheriff.

There is quite a bit of comedy in the second half. Ziggy and his friend are staying with Danny, but they must wake up bright and early after Mel, whose only way of making a living is running Danny's farm, is promised that Ziggy will help out. Burl also must deal with an emergency after he has decided to turn off his police radio, so the dispatcher uses a bullhorn (not realizing Burl is standing right in front of him). Mo was also funny with his date. And Grasso and his boys seem to have little conscience when they kill people. A lot of the comedy is associated with the emergency Burl had to respond to.

I liked the scenes with Danny and Britt the best, as well as scenes where Danny spent time with his niece Daniella. There was also a parade near the end where Inga and Daniella were beauty queens, and that was fun too (in this type of movie, though, do you think a parade will go smoothly?). And while I didn't like most of the music, I think the music will be a highlight for a lot of people.

Raymond Martino hasn't got bad movies. I like "Skyscraper", "Da Vince's war" and "To the limit". He wrote a script to "Detour" and this one directed Joey Travolta who acted in "Da Vince's war" and "To the limit". The plot of "Detour" is very simple. Two bandits - Danny (Jeff Fahey) and Ziggi (James Russo) decided to rob a famous mobster Grasso. But they're didn't know that the man who suggested them this business,Mo (Gary Busey), has already robbed Grasso. But Grasso think that Danny and Ziggi made this. And he started to hunt for them. There aren't too much shots in this movie as in "Skyscraper" and "To the limit" but the plot here much better then in "Skyscraper"