This is a canned, corporatist movie. The entire soundtrack is incredibly out of place. The Journey Song should have only been played at the beginning but is inappropriately oversaturated throughout. The relationships in the movie seem to be there only to distract from the real action. And it is also incredibly predictable. It's not completely bad but as a whole, I can't recommend it. Maybe someone with different tastes would see some different parts in it. Every cliche imaginable is in this. One good part is that there isn't the usual 80's training montage. But that is a minor point. I guess someone thought to sex up high school wrestling. Too much of the dialogue is there merely to distract, like when Kuch admits he isn't a real Native-American and he made it up. They throw dialogue like that out there and then just move along. Then there's Daphne Zuniga's character, whom they made appear like a romantic rival to the drifter Linda Fiorentino, only to drop that subplot. So, a film full of potentially interesting subplots and characters, drops them all and heads straight for the conventional. Another thing I noticed was the lack of a clear villain. Even the antagonist, up until the end, could be viewed as a sort of tragic figure. At the beginning they hint at his troubled background but never explore it further. But they pull away from any sort of surprises and go for the conventional. The viewer is left with assumptions as to what happens afterward. I could have enjoyed it more if it was longer.
Review of Vision Quest
