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Rated: R; Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Suspense; With: Danny Glover, Jared Leto and Dennis Quaid

SWITCHBACK (Paramount, R) Dennis Quaid grits his teeth and knits his brow as Frank LaCrosse, an FBI agent so monotonously dour he makes The X-Files' Fox Mulder seem like Richard Simmons. After a serial killer kidnaps his son, LaCrosse goes AWOL from the bureau and trails a retired railroad man (Danny Glover, killing time between Lethal Weapons) and a mysterious drifter (My So-Called Life cipher Jared Leto), one of whom may be the culprit. In his directorial debut, screenwriter Jeb Stuart (Die Hard) ladles on the cliches -- a barroom brawl, a train-top chase -- and lets his narrative get bogged down in a boring subplot about a local sheriff's election. The thoroughly routine SwitchBack may ultimately be remembered as the year's most forgettable movie. D+


Posted Nov 14, 1997
 

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