Review of Quicksilver (1986) by Marina N — 18 Mar 2012

This movie epitomises the lack of the common concept, its story jumps from a hard life narrative to a love story and then to a clumsy action, it is full of inconceivably bad pop music, its cast is well below the floor, all except the main character performed by Kevin Bacon.

But if you are not indifferent to cycling there is one thing you may like... There is an instance in the movie, at approximately 30th minute, when the protagonist recalls his feelings about riding a bike in the city - when you move in the opposite direction along a well-known one-way street.

Those bike enthusiasts who ever experienced that won't fail to confirm this remark. If encouragement in biking is all you expect in this movie, you'll be sure to avoid disillusionment. I, for instance, bought a bike right after having seen Quicksilver (1986), and never regret it since.