utgard14
Two federal marshals (Lou Diamond Phillips, Lori Petty) find a federal witness (Steven Williams) hiding out in a bar in the Arizona desert. No sooner do they catch him than hit men show up to kill him. Some more marshals arrive and they escape with the witness down an abandoned stretch of highway that is haunted by the ghosts of a prison chain gang that died there.Williams is the best part. Dale Midkiff is good. So is Phillips. Petty is irritating. I'm not sure why she was talking with that "street" accent but it was distracting. The rest of the cast is solid. Cheap-looking but often funny, intentionally and unintentionally. Love how William Wesley didn't really know when it was appropriate to use slow-mo so he was just using it at random times. There are some funny lines. Not sure how many are in the script because some of the actors seem to be ad-libbing throughout the movie. There are attempts at being Tarantinoesque, such as a forced exchange between some of the feds as to whether Farrah Fawcett is a supermodel or not. There's also an annoying blues riff that plays frequently.Definitely an interesting premise for a movie. It has some pluses but more minuses. The direction sucks and Lori Petty is trying way too hard to be...well, whatever the hell she's trying to be. Give it a shot if you like B movies but keep expectations low.
artyfilmsareformongs
Went in with an open mind, looking to watch an entertaining movie and it turned out to be just that... Entertaining. Story could have been stronger, but the idea was very good and kept me watching. The arty camera shaking was pointless but didn't ruin the film for me. Not sure in the direction they wanted to take this film, but its definitely not a horror, more of a road movie with a touch of every other genre.ALL in all, if your lost for what film to watch, definitely worth checking out Route 666, its not the greatest film, but go with an open mind, and don't pick at everything you see, and you'll enjoy the film, I could quite happily sit through it again
jerronspencer
Route 666...highway of the beast. Here is a film that had some great desert locations and some decent gunplay. And that's about all. ****SPOILER****In this ghostly action thriller, Jack (Phillips) is a--get this--Federal Marshall, who used to do under-cover work for the CIA, and before that was a Navy SEAL. How's that for background? Of course, he has an unspoken love for his partner, played by Petti. They're attempting to deliver a witness to trial along a closed and dangerous stretch of old Route 66. This highway is haunted by the souls of four convicts who were murdered by the guards set to watch them. In an amazing coincidence, one of the convicts was Jack's long-lost father. This sluggish film was more entertaining in the beginning, as an action film, than later, when it became a poorly-executed tale of family redemption, ghosts and secrets from the past.
Finntroll
Sometimes there are movies that just don't deserve to be called movies and sometimes there are cameramen who just deserve to be shot. By some weird twist "Route 666" isn't a movie and it's shot by a cameraman who should aim at something else with a tool that looks nothing like a camera. I guess you already know the what I mean so I will start the review here if it's OK with you. OK? Good."Route 666" is an abomination that suffers from being a bit more abnormal than it's low budget flick companions. Why? Well, I guess it can have something to do with the retarded storyline, horrible actors, useless FX and the cameraman who makes the "action"-sequences look like something that's been filmed from a washing-machine during an earthquake. I could start picking at every little fault that "Route 666" suffers from but I don't have the time. Just don't watch this movie okay?
