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- 1986
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
- 1986
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
Summary Jack (Kevin Bacon) was doing great trading shares until he wasn't. He gets a job on a bike at Quicksilver speed delivery. There he befriends Hector and the cute Terri. Jack gets an enemy in the criminal Gypsy.
Directed By: Thomas Michael Donnelly
Written By: Thomas Michael Donnelly
- 1986
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
- 1986
- PG
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 45 m
Quicksilver
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Summary Jack (Kevin Bacon) was doing great trading shares until he wasn't. He gets a job on a bike at Quicksilver speed delivery. There he befriends Hector and the cute Terri. Jack gets an enemy in the criminal Gypsy.
Directed By: Thomas Michael Donnelly
Written By: Thomas Michael Donnelly
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
43
13% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Despite its flaws, Quicksilver coasts by entertainingly, with some ingenious twists on the standard car chase, and even creates a new dance variation. [14 Feb 1986, p.25]
They might make a nice couple in a movie about them. But Quicksilver, a product of the music video influence, has been edited at such a rapid pace that there`s more time given over to bicycle racing and car chases than to love.
As long as the characters are doing stunts or whizzing impossibly through city traffic to a strong rock beat, there's something to watch. For the rest of the time, Quicksilver is as much fun as a slow leak.
The story is so interesting, and Bacon and the other actors are so capable, that if this movie had been two hours out of their lives, I would have found it compelling. What we get, though, is 35 minutes of their lives and a lot of recycled visual cliches.
According to the press kit, "Producer Daniel Melnick's personal stamp on films has always been to avoid the obvious, the cliche'." Uh, Dan . . . you lost your stamp.
All its freewheeling makes for a really "moving" movie, one in which the big chase scene involves, predictably, a car and a bike. But there's not much else to it. [21 Feb 1986, p.6]
QUICKSILVER isn't a movie. It's actually a series of rock videos occasionally interrupted by a slight dalliance with story progression. The premise is wholly fabricated, the style is pure MTV, and the characters are all pressed from Hollywood cliche cutters.
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Production Company
Columbia Pictures,
Delphi V Productions,
IndieProd Company Productions
Release Date Feb 14, 1986
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating PG
Tagline Winning is a feeling you never lose.
