Search - Quicksilver [Blu-ray] on Blu-ray

B.J. W. (analogkid01) from CHICAGO, IL
Reviewed on 7/5/2025...

Kevin Bacon followed up his 1984 smash hit "Footloose" with the anemic "Quicksilver," a 1986 movie about...bicycle messengers.

I remember a bicycle messenger who came on David Letterman's show around this same time. He had taken a videocamera along with him on one of his rides, and the footage was terrifying and amazing - he even rode under a semi at one point.

Quicksilver, written and directed by former bicycle messenger Tom Donnelly, captures none of that energy. Whether a given scene involves a delivery by bicycle, or a conversation between two characters, it is dreadfully boring.

But let's back up. Jack Casey (Bacon) starts the film as a stock trader with the absolute worst moustache this side of Austrian-born dictators. In the first scene he basically loses all his money and apparently his parents' retirement savings as well. Cut to the next scene where without explanation, he's apparently gained a bike, lost the moustache, and re-invented himself as a messenger. Fellow messenger Voodoo (Laurence Fishburne) works legit jobs but also delivers drugs for local bad guy Gypsy (Rudy Ramos). When Voodoo gets on Gypsy's bad side, Gypsy runs him over with Jack as an eyewitness. This sets up...the conflict, unrealistic as it is.

Meanwhile, Jack's old trading buddy keeps trying to get him to ditch the bike and get back on the trading floor. "You were the best, Jack! You had the touch!" Uhh, were you late to the movie and missed the first scene where he lost everything? Pretty sure Jack did *not* have the touch, but of course he gets it back in the third act and earns enough to replenish his parents' savings *and* give 7 grand to his buddy Hector (Paul Rodriguez) who wants to open a string of hot dog stands.

Oh and Jami Gertz plays The Girl.

NO ONE WILL BE SEATED DURING THE RIVETING "SOUR MILK" SEQUENCE.

Grade: C-minus