Nazz86 Dennis Quaid is a worthless steaming pile of trash in this movie, so basically his usual performance.

Spikeopath Switchback is written and directed by Jeb Stuart. It stars Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto, R. Lee Ermey, Ted Levine and William Fitchner. Music is by Basil Poledouris and cinematography by Oliver Wood.FBI agent Frank LaCrosse (Quaid) is tracking a serial killer who he believes kidnapped his young son.Switchback is a standard serial killer based thriller that flopped at the box office. It's not a bad film but it never delivers on its potential. The location travelogue of the story is most impressive, especially the last third once we get to the snowy mountains of Colorado, but it's the scenery that grips and holds the attention more than the plot.The red herrings have interest value enough for us to stay with what is at just under two hours a long film, but resolutions are either anti climatic or too obvious. Cast are a mixed bag, with Quaid just okay as the perpetually bleak protag and Glover sadly winding out as miscast once film shows its hands. Thankfully Leto and Ermey are on hand to keep a rein on things, playing the intended thriller tone just right as per their respective characters.It's perhaps unlucky to have followed far superior/intelligent serial killer based thrillers, rendering it then and now as weak offerings. It's not the dead on stinker the box office suggests, and trimmed of 20 minutes it would have been a decent time waster, but as it is it plays out as unoriginal and lacking in directorial focus. 5/10

carbuff Well done thriller, but, ultimately, I was somewhat disappointed, because it didn't really bring anything new to the table. The violence in the movie was pretty disturbing, not because of the gruesomeness, which wasn't particularly extreme, but instead due to the preferred method of killing and the killer's attitude. Dennis Quaid delivers a solid performance as the exceptionally solid, totally dependable, ideal father figure, a particular archetype he seems to have built a career on. Like one of the other reviewers commented, Danny Glover is not a favorite actor of mine, but he played his role in this film very well. In summary, a pretty run-of-the-mill thriller with high production values that plays much more like very good TV than a major motion picture.

Lee Eisenberg I mostly liked "Switchback", but the last half hour or so seemed kind of anticlimactic, as if suddenly the truth gets revealed and then nothing more can happen. Granted, they did have a lot of tricks up to that point, but I still would have preferred a bigger surprise at the end. Nevertheless, Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto and R. Lee Ermey do well in their roles. I kind of wish that more movies took place in the Rocky Mountains region (the most famous one is "The Shining", but another good one is "Sunshine Cleaning").Anyway, an OK movie, but I would have preferred a stronger ending.PS: Maggie Roswell, who plays Fae, is best known as one of the voices on "The Simpsons".