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The movie follows two young 'hippie' bikers, Wyatt and Billy, as they set off on a cross-country trek to New Orleans after scoring cocaine in Mexico, then re-selling it in California. Their journey discloses a period of counterculture and intolerance through spectacular landscapes.
The film may be a relic now, but it is a fascinating souvenir -- particularly in its narcissism and fatalism -- of how the hippie movement thought of itself.
Though deserving of its esteemed status on account of the cinematic revolution it spawned, the feature itself is something of a relic. But since when isn't it fascinating to reflect on the fossils of the past?
Hopper, Fonda and their friends went out into America looking for a movie and found instead a small, pious statement (upper case) about our society (upper case), which is sick (upper case). It's pretty but lower case cinema.
May 20, 2003
Empire Magazine
This is a glorious widescreen vision of a hot and bothered America, at once beautiful and lost. Yes, it has dated, but its pessimistic last gasp ("We blew it...") still carries a prescient sting.