This is back from the time when Robert Zemeckis was using groundbreaking black humour in his movies. Not that his recent movies are not good, but they ceased to have that satirical touch, that great irony and comment about people that you can find in Used Cars. Marking one of Kurt Russel's greatest performances as the self-absorbed car salesman with a wet dream to run for Senator, Used Cars is a lunatic movie that continuously fires darts of irony and satire upon the people and the people's behaviour. A film that clearly has much to do with greed and power, it states the fight between two brothers, the one kind-hearted and the other devious and opportunist. What could be made as a dramatical comment, here it is presented as a freak comedy, a comedy that provokes the very foundations of art by presenting to the viewer a cynical, lawless world where backstabbing and deceit is the day to day procedure. The film is filled with comments about human unattractive characteristics and you can easily say that it is a dance of the unworthy, the ones that have very little to give and instead present themselves as being the greatest of all. Used Cars is caustic and relentless to the evils of this world and it has a straightforward wild and uncompromising character. This is one of the least remembered Zemeckis movies, a thing that is truly a shame, Used Cars is a fabulous movie, clearly one of the directors' best moments and above all Used Cars shows a time in films, where truth and comment where a thing that was most needed in a movie, which reminds me to say that today's mainstream cinema is pathetically empty of substance, many times.
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