Quicksilver

Quicksilver
by Thomas Michael Donnelly

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Actor: Andrew Smith (III), Jami Gertz, Kevin Bacon, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos
Director: Thomas Michael Donnelly
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-12-10
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures

DVD Reviews of Quicksilver

DVD Review: 80s cheese movie, but still good
Summary: 3 Stars

This is a great movie. However, I remember it being much better when I was 13 years old. If you get past the 80s acting, the plot and bike tricks are actually cool!

DVD Review: Note to Marshall Fine; Next Time Watch the Movie Before You Write!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is simply an antodote to the Amazon review which was obviously written by someone that wasn't paying attention if indeed they ever watched the movie.

Kevin Bacon plays a Commodities trader (big difference from a Stockbroker) that loses it all on a highly leveraged trade and even worse, loses everything his parents had entrusted him to invest. He basically drops out and goes from the highest level of the economy to the lowest. He buys a used bike and starts riding for a delivery service. (I have no idea where the idea of evil bosses came into the Amazon review, the boss at the messenger service comes across as a decent guy.) A young woman named Terri is hired and soon becomes the target of Gypsy, a drug dealer and ne'er do well that would like to enslave her as a prostitute. Paul Rodriguez also is in the mix as an experienced courier that wants to raise enough money to buy a hot-dog cart so he can leave the courier business behind.

The drama of the movie centers around Gypsy's efforts to enslave Terri and the climax is a car/bicycle chase where Kevin Bacon outwits Gypsy and sends him plunging from an earthquake damaged bridge. In the end, Bacon's confidence is restored and he finds an opportunity in the markets that can put him back in the game. Calling in favors from old friends he makes the trade and wins big which allows him to get back on top, restore his parent's losses, help Terri to a better life and finance Rodriguez's new cart.

As far as Marshall Fine is concerned, let's just say that you should be a bit embarrased to have written such an innacurate review of a movie that an 12 year old could have understood but you obviously didn't.

Overall the movie is entertaining if a bit of a stretch in places. The overall plot is feasible although the Gypsy character strains credibility a bit IMO. At the end it's a feel good movie with a happy ending and promise of a bright future for all of the heroes. I liked it a lot when it first came out and I've glad to see that it has found its way onto DVD.

DVD Review: Quicksilver
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of the best kevin Bacon movies especially with the fast paced bike sequences around the end, I couldn't believe a person could ride a racer like that and it is very different from that movie footloose.

DVD Review: Found it!
Summary: 5 Stars

Ordered this for my husband. It was one of those movies that he talked about all the time and we could never find...anywhere! I had looked before on amazon but couldn't find it. Finally, I saw it and got it for him. It was a Christmas present and he was surprised. We have watched it at least twice since then. If you know someone who bikes or used to be a bike messenger(like my husband) or you like Kevin Bacon it is a great movie!

DVD Review: FULL SCREEN version
Summary: 4 Stars

I love this film, always have. But just a note: This is the FULL SCREEN version, which I do not see mentioned anywhere on the item description. It doesn't appear to be available at least through Amazon in any other format.

Description of Quicksilver

A bicycle messenger on a collision course with danger makes his rounds in the fastpaced world of maverick messengers & uncovers a sinister web of murder & intrigue. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/07/2004 Starring: Kevin Bacon Jami Gertz Run time: 106 minutes Rating: Pg

A hotshot stockbroker bets it all--and loses it all--in one day, effectively ruining all his customers while ending his career. So, naturally, he turns to that old stockbroker standby: he becomes a bicycle messenger. Kevin Bacon may have made this film simply to extend the strands of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game; it's hard to imagine any other reason. Otherwise, this mid-'80s film stands as yet another example of a movie influenced by MTV without understanding what MTV does. Eventually, Bacon leads the exploited masses of messengers in an uprising against unfair labor practices by the evil bosses. There's an original concept. Notable as yet another film to give a role to the dazzlingly untalented Jami Gertz. --Marshall Fine

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