Choke

This is the most gloriously contrived flick I have ever seen. Dennis Hopper's character and his actions are laugh out loud funny. Man this is a so bad it is good flick in the truest sense. Hopper's inner monologues and Madsen's bad guy mugging for the camera make this silly, silly movie so much fun. Sit back and laugh at this laughable movie. Fun stuff!

First of all, this movie is not even remotely what the box is trying to sell it as. It's not meant to be taken totally seriously, and is in no way a tense, psychological thriller of any kind. It is a hilarious dark comedy that, despite two fave actors of mine (Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen) being in it, really defied my expectations. I have to admit I rented it solely for those two names (especially since Madsen was playing a serial killer), but I did not expect it to be as enjoyable as it was. Hopper plays an uptight, jumpy, rich jerk who drives around in his hummer in between jumping down people's throats. The sight of Hopper, looking dead serious in a business suit and odd shades, driving the hummer is funny as hell, whether it was meant to be or not (and looking at the rest of the movie, I find it highly probable that it was). Hopper gets blackmailed by an opportunistic scumbag when his own daughter becomes responsible for a drunken hit-and-run incident, and Hopper, being the loving father, tries covering it up. This is to no avail when the con man scumbag comes calling, but things look up a bit when Daddy loses his temper in a bad way and Madsen, playing a devil-may-care serial killer, happens to be lurking in the area and offers a helping hand to the frantic Hopper, who must dispose of the corpse. It just gets funnier from there, and that's where I'm going to leave it because giving away the ending in this case would probably eliminate one's will to see it. All in all, it's just as I said, a good dark comedy.

This was one very strange movie, I rented this film on video manly because it had Dennis Hopper And Michael Madsen in it, They made the film watchable but with out them two actors this movie forshore would have been more of a bomb then it already is. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the film, But only because of the actors, Lots of other people would dissagree with im sure.

all and all it was still a very watchable film so I would give it a 7 out of 10.

Unfortunately this film is on the 'lost classic' list! i must say the acting isn't the best but what could you expect from such a low budget! Hopper and Madsen are great to watch together, being two of my favourite actors. It has quite a weird feel about it but flows quite well..except i didn't really understand the scene with the man watching through the hole in the fence, quite irrelevant i thought..none the less i enjoyed the story and its worth watching just to see the great ending..not all is what it seems! If you like either or both of these actors then i suggest you give it a go..even if everyone else in the film is virtually unknown! Just always remember some films are worth watching just for a great twist at the end!! Enjoy, i certainly did!

We enjoyed very much seeing this movie, the story idea is really good. There are 1000s of Hollywood films worse than this one, which offers not only the regular really cool action parts, but also some really big stars and you can see them acting well together. Maybe one day, a big studio movie will even come up with a high-budget remake of this brilliant story, where nothing is as it appears on the first look...seriously, that the murderer in the first place only mistakenly believes, that he killed Ron Sloan, this is an interesting way on how to begin a tricky story... moreover we liked it a lot, that the movie plays really in Hollywood and you get to see some of the Hollywood and Valley areas you do not see in all the other independent films... so, all in all, a quite entertaining piece of an independent Hollywood movie!