"BACKFLASH" is a cheap wannabe of a Tarantino film especially JACKIE BROWN & its a crime Thriller road movie set in the lonely desert towns of Robert Rodriguez style & full of double crossing useless criminals but i checked this out because I'm a huge Robert Patrick fan & he is definitely the best part of the movie!!!!

Robert Patrick gives the best he can acting wise with what he has & he's good (he's always good) he's just not playing the type of sure of himself tough guy & instead he plays a gullible & lonely video store owner called Ray but i liked his character. I liked seeing the old video stores as that was my childhood in those places so i got a sense of Nostalgia with those scenes as they Don't exist anymore & there is a lonely old skool dusty desert atmosphere. Robert Patrick working in a video store & him being a video era actor just filled me with a nice bit of Nostalgia. Robert Patrick seems so at home in these straight-to-video B-movie Thriller's & had made a lot by the time he starred in this one. Patrick done some gems though the 90's with Erotic thriller's, adventure & action flicks made on small budgets & Patrick was always damn good on screen like a rugged James Dean or a young Eastwood. He's also a guy that seems at home in the loner role & especially out in the dusty & loneliness of Texas of Mexico & he's a damn good B-movie actor & simply a damn good actor in anything, Big budget or B-movie.

I didn't really like Jennifer Esposito's Double Crossing Hitchhiker character, she was too in your face cocky & too brutal as she punches people alot & just a bitchy character. No one else makes any big impression but to be honest the characters are just weird & wacky bits to fill out the dusty backroad world of this thriller.

There's some double crossing stuff & some money robbing stuff & it's definitely Robert Patrick that keeps it entertaining.

Now, this is the typical type of low-rent Thriller that stocked up the shelves at Blockbuster & for that reason it definitely has a comforting Nostalgic feel to it & makes it more watchable because of that fact. There's nothing really bad about "Backflash" as it's a real easy late-night thriller type but it also doesn't do anything exciting either. We get a small role for Melissa Joan Hart, pure 90's & early 2000's star from the hit show "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" that i used to watch so there's Nostalgia there too.

Worth watching to see the Awesome Robert Patrick in a very different kind of role as an ordinary guy in a strange situation & he plays the loner role well & i liked the sunny, dusty & wide open cinematography of the landscape. Reminded me of From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (also Robert Patrick) All in all, Backflash is a relaxing watch of a film & a decent "Tarantino" style small time thriller.

A cheap dusty road-movie thriller that is an easy watch but nothing more. I like B-movies & Backflash is ok if.

I have big Nostalgic love for Robert Patrick as he's a face I've literally grown-up watched & loving from Terminator 2, Die Hard 2, The Faculty, Cop-Land, Zero Tolerance, Hong-Kong '97, Tactical Assault, The Vivero Letter & many more. A beloved "Character Actor" & one of my all-time favorite actor's. A real star of his time, my time, the beautiful 90's when Video stores ruled.

"BACKFLASH" is a cheap wannabe of a Tarantino film especially JACKIE BROWN & its a crime Thriller road movie set in the lonely desert towns of Robert Rodriguez style & full of double crossing useless criminals & it just can't pull off anything really interesting or Cool but i checked this out because I'm a huge Robert Patrick fan & he is definitely the best part of the movie!!!!

Robert Patrick gives the best he can acting wise with what he has & he's ok just not playing the type of sure of himself tough guy & instead he plays a gullible & lonely video store owner called Ray & i liked his character & i liked seeing the old video stores as that was my childhood in those places so i got a sense of Nostalgia with those scenes as they Don't exist anymore & there is a lonely old skool dusty desert atmosphere here but nothing really great happens & i didn't like Jennifer Esposito's Double Crossing Hitchhiker character at all, she was too in your face cocky & too brutal as she punches people alot & just a horrible character & no one else makes any impression at all!!!!

Now, this is the typical type of low-rent Thriller that stocked up the shelves at Blockbuster & for that reason it definitely has a comforting Nostalgic feel to it & makes it more watchable because of that fact. There's nothing really bad about "Backflash" as it's a real easy late-night thriller type but it also doesn't do anything exciting either. We get a small role for Melissa Joan Hart, pure 90's & early 2000's star from the hit show "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" that i used to watch so there's Nostalgia there too.

Worth watching to see the Awesome Robert Patrick in a very different kind of role as an ordinary guy in a strange situation but the film is abit dull at times & tried too much to be like a Tarantino film but then again most cheap crime thriller's back then tried to copy the Tarantino style & failed.

All in all, Backflash is a relaxing watch of a film & anything with Robert Patrick in as a main lead is always gonna be interesting.

A cheap dusty road-movie thriller that is an easy watch but nothing more. I like B-movies & Backflash is ok if.

I have big Nostalgic love for Robert Patrick as he's a face I've literally grown-up watched & loving from Terminator 2, Die Hard 2, The Faculty, Cop-Land, Zero Tolerance, Hong-Kong '97, Tactical Assault & many more. A beloved "Character Actor" & one of my all-time favorite actor's. A real star of his time, my time, the beautiful 90's when Video stores ruled.

Take a simple-minded story and leave out parts so as to mystify the audience and then plug them in later so we can relish in the revelation. Rent a handful of 2nd tier talent. Drag the shots out because you can't afford to be busy...busy costs money. Pump up the atmospherics because they're cheap. Avoid expensive action like blazing fire fights and blow up a cardboard cabin instead. And, voila! You have "Backflash", a cheap B-movie set in the BFAZ desert which tells of a video store owner, a babe, and a bunch of mob heavies all trying to get their mits on some ill-gotten dinero. This no brainer explains everything with flashbacks so it would make an ideal soporific for the weary couch potato. (D+)