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Just perfect...

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Forget all these 'Fast and Furious' and it's derivatives. 'Two-Lane Blacktop' is the real deal. Although it belongs more into counter culture category together with 'Easy Rider', 'Zabriskie Point' and 'Vanishing Point', the street racing is mayor part of the film's plot. Two young men driving cross country in their highly modified '55 Chevy and taking part impromptu drag races. They begin to encounter yellow GTO driver who finally makes a suggestion to race across country to Washington DC.'Two-Lane Blacktop' is notable as a time capsule film as it depicts legendary Route 66 during pre-interstate highway era. The film constantly gets compared with another road movies with existential message such as 'Easy Rider' or 'Vanishing Point', but 'Blacktop' surpasses them by pure style.

James Taylor (known simply as "the Driver") and Dennis Wilson (as "the Mechanic") are two young men who drive around the country and--after sizing up the competition in various towns--make money by racing their '55 Chevy against the opposition. One day they pick up a young hitchhiker known simply as "the Girl" (Laurie Bird) and proceed on their way to the next town. As it so happens, while on the road the next day they repeatedly come across another driver (played by Warren Oates) in a G.T.O. who becomes angry because he feels that he is being challenged by them. So when both cars stop at a gas station somewhere in New Mexico they get into an argument and decide to bet their cars on the way to Washington D.C. Naturally, the G.T.O. is at a disadvantage because he is all by himself while the Chevy can change drivers whenever one of them gets tired. However, it's at this time that we learn more about each of the characters and personal conflicts soon emerge. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that what the film lacks in dialogue it makes up for in its depiction of the life along Route 66 during the early '70s. Because of that it enjoys a cult status among many viewers of this particular genre. That said, while it certainly isn't the best "hot rod film" ever made, it has its good points and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

This is a totally amateur movie, like it was made by high school kids in first year film class. Whereas, perhaps, some existential meaning could be taken from Easy Rider & Vanishing Point, this mess seems to be totally ad-libbed, like they just decided to go to New Mexico, shoot some footage & then splice scenes together. It feels like a home movie. It's as uninspired as the paint job on the car.There are few shots of the countryside. Most of the scenes were filmed in the car, in gas stations & diners and at night.Characters come & go adding nothing to the story. We never learn anything about them, not even their names.There is very little dialog. The main topic of conversation, when there is any, is the car. Dennis Wilson must have checked those points and carburetors about a dozen times. The 'actors' stare blankly into space most of the time. James Taylor has the charisma of a floor jack. It's no wonder he kept his day job.Heck, they even forgot to finish the race.If there is a deep meaning to this flick, it seems to be to always keep your engine properly timed.Give it a try, but don't expect much. This film literally has the soul of a shop manual.

An almost slow motion, blow by blow account of three men in two muscle cars racing from the southwest to D.C. for pink slips.Sparse, tacit, stark and entirely denouement - a perfect depiction of America at that time in history.Brilliant depiction of early post-industrial America; its ennui and dull disillusionment: Two hugely powerful cars in a half-hearted race to an ambiguous finish line. Going nowhere fast.The action is sparse, dialog very spare, and rural pre-interstate America drifts past in dull, desolate splendor.Three of the characters almost never speak, and the fourth almost entirely tells lies.There is no resolution. No goals are accomplished. The film even abandons the race. No one changes or gains insight. It's a perfect film.Only technically a "car movie" because it takes place in cars. The characters could be walking, or on bicycles, or sitting in a bar playing cards.I'm a wicked car nut, and this had been on my list for forty years. And now that I've seen it, the fact that it isn't a rip-snortin' action thriller, but a quiet character study is all good. Actually glad I didn't see it when I was nine years-old (when it came out...) this film deserves to be viewed with insight I didn't possess until my 20s or 30s.Funny - when I heard the Doors song playing, I mused - "Probably why the film was in the can for so long. In my thoughts blamed Manzerak. But it was Morrison's estate that kept it unavailable until 2007. Figures...