Reckless

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Reckless

It's hard trying to appreciate the actual point of this film. It seems like only an excerpt from some one's life which is utterly meaningless to another person. You simply break in to a life of a delinquent senior entering adulthood and that practically sets the plot. Then after watching the first few minutes you begin to get a premonition, and pretty much know, about how the movie will end. But in spite of this, Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah provide the ingredients to make this movie come off enjoyable to view at some level, but not always consistent.

Just another typical 80's youth film with two actors in their late twenties playing teenagers. Besides all that, you got yourself a sexy poolside scene where you have to wait through half the film to see it. You fot Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah doing a dare strip tease at their high school pool in the middle of the night. It's great. You got to admit it's one of the only reasons why people rent this movie in the first place. A decent story, decent acting, an overall worth see movie. Check it out!

The producers could easily have turned movie this into a music video. The music was fantastic. The plot is a tiny bit old, but still I enjoyed it. The music aligns well with the plot as we hear Kim Wilde, Inxs, and others. This is a story of a love triangle in a one industry town. The one industry is the steel mill. A violent and rebellious outcast who wants to leave town and the popular and rich son of a steel mill executive, both want the same beautiful cheerleader, Tracy Prescott. If you watch the movie close you know which one Tracy should align with. After the two boys finally clash, right on cue with the start of "Roll Me Away", by Bob Seeger, one of them wins Tracy's heart.

The drawing card of "Reckless" in 1984 was in seeing its sexy young stars sans clothes. What...you thought it was the plot? The script is a relentless rip-off of every teen-angst drama from "Rebel Without A Cause" on down. Misunderstood high schooler (Aidan Quinn), whose brooding manner derives from an unhappy home and has alienated him at school, falls for the class sweetheart (Daryl Hannah), who is unhappy but doesn't know it yet. Yes, we get to see Quinn and Hannah partly *, but their characters are clichés, as are the roles played by Kenneth McMillain (Quinn's surly pop) and Cliff De Young (overdoing it as an unsympathetic coach). Lots of gritty, industrial-town atmospherics, fine '80's rock on the soundtrack, but the leads don't act or speak like high schoolers--and Quinn looks far too old to still be cracking the books. ** from ****

Reckless is one of my all-time favorite movies, Aidan Quinn is an awesome talent and should be more well known by now. This is 'Rebel without a Cause' for the 80's generation. Great music, excellent script, terrific acting and beautifully filmed.

I love this movie when I saw it on cable back in 1985. It was dealt with normal suburban life rather than these kids had money and felt like they were snobs. I saw it as Randy had this hot chick Tracey and Tracey wanted something else - Johnny Rourke. I loved the soundtrack and I wish some of the songs were released. I do remember INXS, Kim Wilde and Romeo Void (who can ever forget that dance scene between Johnny and Tracey, making Randy so mad that he stopped dancing with Mary Pat). This was good that I myself was in high school that I saw this film and I thought it was charming. I liked that Tracey's brother actually liked Johnny, while Randy and Tracey's friends (Kathy, Mary Pat and Karen) did not like him. I also like the cast of the film.

On the surface, there's a lot about Reckless that spells turkey. Troubled and angry boy from the wrong side of town falls for the pretty rich cheerleader. Well, we all have seen that a million times, from Rebel Without a Cause to The Breakfast Club. Then there is the casting of actors who are transparently too old to play teenagers. Yet there is something about Reckless that draws one in and keeps them there for the full 90 minutes, and that something is in two words: Aidan Quinn. His performance is so on the mark, we can so easily feel his pain and angst, and that's not easy considering much of his lines are insipid. And yes, we cant overlook the fact that he is very easy on the eyes (the word dreamy comes to mind). But Quinn shows in this picture and most of his subsequent work that he is not merely just another pretty face, but a fine actor.