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Route 666

Route 666 (2001)

October. 30,2001
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4.4
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R
| Horror Action Thriller

Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it and hide out in the Arizona desert. The Feds catch up with him and rescue him just before a group of hitmen can manage to silence him for good. In the course of getting Smith away from the mafia thugs, the pair of agents assigned to protect him turn onto an abandoned stretch of highway nicknamed 'Route 666' after the mysterious death of a prison chain gang. As the three continue on their way, they soon discover just what happened to the chain gang, and how the highway earned its name.

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Matrixston
2001/10/30

Wow! Such a good movie.

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Gutsycurene
2001/10/31

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

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Forumrxes
2001/11/01

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

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Tayloriona
2001/11/02

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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svenjergensen
2001/11/03

This is one of my favorite campy horror movies. I have some serious nostalgia for this film because when I was a kid my parents rented it from Blockbuster and I watched the crap out of it. Now it's just cheesy and amazing, and I love it. LDP plays a cop who is escorting a witness across the desert. He and his team of FBI agents have to dodge crooked cops, gang members, and most importantly, zombie ghosts (one of which just happens to be LDP's dead father) The film starts off with the most epic gunfight ever put to screen, followed closely by some of the greatest horror you will ever see in your life (sensing the sarcasm?) In all honesty though, this is a really fun film and makes for a great "B-Movie" night. And as far as B movies go, this one isn't really all that bad. Love it!

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GL84
2001/11/04

Transporting a dangerous witness through the desert, a federal agent and his team realize the abandoned road they're traveling on is haunted by the ghosts of an accident years ago and must try to get out alive.Overall, this one was better than it really should've been though there's some big problems within this. One of the better elements here is the film's far more action-packed roots that set the story up rather nicely, taking even the fact that this is initially based on a flimsy-but-workable approach of having the transport group serving interference against the hit-men. The opening shoot-out at the diner leads into the whole on-the-run premise that gets them through the rest of the movie makes this one quite interesting and every enjoyable by setting up a plausible situation for the other big action scenes along the way. The encounters with the ghosts along the highway work nicely by getting the gang involved quite well in a couple of enjoyable encounters and also giving this some rather graphic kills here which is nice considering the potential body count at hand. As well, the ghosts look quite nice and creepy here with the gravelly road-marks and dead eyes which really adds to this one with an overall great look added to the other factors in the film. There's still a few issues here with this one which really lowers this, as the biggest one here is the decided lack of time spent on the ghosts themselves. They're involve in just a few scenes here which is mainly due to the inclusion of the storyline about the corrupt cops being so heavily involved in the final half of this one. It really serves no purpose for their involvement since they're the only ones who know the group is out there and what's on the road to begin with, so their placement in the film is way too much for what would happen in real life and really takes a lot of the time up in the film doing this. As well, the films' indecision over whether they're ghosts or zombies is really problematic as they've referred to each yet break rules for both several times. It seems to settle on ghosts, but the ambiguity is a little unsettling and does come off hurting this along with the other flaws.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

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testguy2
2001/11/05

Well,Judging by the comments people either love this movie or hate it with a passion(though I really cant see why) Okay its not Shakespeare but its one hell of a fun flick to watch in my opinion,from Lou diamond doing his eery Native American vibe ala Young guns,to Steven Williams cracking in jokes to Lou and Lori halfway through that will not be lost on x-file fans in the know .Personally I found the camera movement when the prisoners attacked pretty cool,Although I can see how some people partial to sea sickness may be put out. Basically the film is well structured action and Classic One liners from start to finish. Hats off to the costume designers to everyone just basically looks cool. hell the film is cool .Highly Recommended

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blackandevil
2001/11/06

There are movies that make you want to take a fork and dig your eyes out, well, this movie will make you wish you were both blind and deaf so you don't have to know it exist.The only good thing about this movie is that you know that most characters will die, this is but a small consolation because the hero and his girlfriend survive. The director's mother is probably so proud of her son, and the mothers of the film crew, I'm sure they wished they had aborted their children while they still had a chance. I guess anybody who has seen this film wishes that the mothers would have terminated their children, why do all have to suffer for their mistakes, isn't the world a bad place already, do we really need more suffering.

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