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Switchback (1997)

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17

Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 5

No consensus yet.

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46

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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 7,074

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Movie Info

Scripter Jeb Stuart (Die Hard) made his directorial debut with this thriller about an FBI agent in pursuit of a serial killer. Politically ambitious Amarillo police chief Jack McGinnis (William Fichtner) uses a local murder to gain votes in his campaign, a setback for Sheriff Buck Olmstead (R. Lee Ermey), up for re-election. The situation looks better for Olmstead after FBI agent Frank LaCrosse (Dennis Quaid) arrives to track the killer. LaCrosse has a personal agenda: he's convinced this killer

R, 1 hr. 58 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense

Jeb Stuart

Dec 1, 1998

Paramount Home Video

Cast

All Critics (36) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (17) | DVD (1)

Quaid is a one-note sadsack here and no natural action hero.

January 1, 2000 Comment
USA Today
Top Critic IconTop Critic

A superb, underrated drama

December 7, 2006 Comment

High-class thriller, with a superb turn by Quaid

March 11, 2006 Comment
Moviehole

A well-done suspense-thriller...Has modest aspirations, but meets them admirably.

October 6, 2005 Comment
Fantastica Daily

The striking American West setting enlivens this efficient, rote thriller.

October 14, 2004 Comment
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

messily written and surprisingly poorly acted... the pursuit is a yawn a minute, leading to a climax that would be laughable if it weren't so dull.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | Comment
Kalamazoo Gazette
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Audience Reviews for Switchback

The hunter became the hunted.

December 15, 2009
ScoopOnline
Wahida K

Super Reviewer

There are many things said in the world that really ought to have been said by somebody else. Meaning is twisted when I discover from whose mouth a particular phrase was hatched, for better or worse. Some words are so alive and wise, almost a separate entity now that they have been spoken or written. The person

April 11, 2006
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Mike Neumann

Super Reviewer

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