Film Journal #214 - Monte Hellman’s “Road to Nowhere” (2011)
Monte Hellman’s 1971 cult-classic “Two-Lane Blacktop” is one of my favorite movies of all time. The director hasn’t made a film in over 20 years, so needless to say, I went into watching his latest movie with some pretty high expectations. I wish I could say that they were met, but I couldn’t help but feel disappointed by this neo-noir film within a film. There are some classic Hellman touches and a haunting ambiguity that I usually love in films, but the acting in kept distracting me in all the worst ways.
