I really, really wanted to like this film, but I couldn't. It was ridiculous, poorly acted, gruesomely photographed and horribly directed. You can't defend it just by saying "it's Canadian and made in the late 1960s; they didn't have the resources for high production values." I'm not talking about production values, I'm talking about poor decisions and ineffectual execution of responsibility. I know what the film was trying to accomplish, but I couldn't help myself from despising it while I watched. Two idiots walking around Toronto to twangy bluegrass guitar music; slow zoom-in shots of characters for the purposes of making us care what they are thinking or feeling; silly dialogue...it was awful. A classic it's not. Canada has produced much better.
Review of Goin' Down the Road
