I remember owning this movie on VHS back in the day, but oddly enough I couldn't recall the contents of the storyline. So as I stumbled upon an opportunity to watch "Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby" here in 2022, of course I opted to sit down and revisit the movie.

Writer and director Matthew Bright actually managed to piece together a rather unique and somewhat far out there type of movie here. But it worked well in favor of the movie, because all the absurdity, the strange characters, the weird events, and everything just seemed to click together all nicely and compiled an oddly enjoyable movie.

The storyline in "Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby" is strange, no doubt about it, especially because the characters are odd individuals carrying heavy baggage of damaged pasts with them, and while it does come off as being a bit too far out there at first, stick with it, because the storyline picks up and starts to make more and more sense as the movie progress.

I found "Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby" to be an interesting movie as it wasn't your typical mainstream movie.

The acting performances in the movie were good, and while I think I was only familiar with David Alan Grier here, then I will say that they had put together a good cast ensemble. I liked the performance of Natasha Lyonne (playing White Girl) and Maria Celedonia (playing Cyclona) in particular.

If you enjoy movies that are somewhat offbeat, then you definitely should give "Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby" a chance. I was genuinely entertained by revisiting this movie from writer and director Matthew Bright.

My rating of "Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby" lands on a six out of ten stars.

Sometimes insomnia is a good thing. Late night cable holds all kinds of jewels just use the TV Guide as a map, and look for this one. It is a dark film that appeals admittedly to a small crowd. This is a case where the small crowd is right. I love the strange feeling the film seems to have. At times hard to watch and at others you will wish you could see just at little more. And maybe they should have gone on a little; the ending lacks the overall feel of the rest of the film. And to be honest it almost ruined it. But two days later when I was still thinking about it, I knew I had to see it one more time. It does have something for everyone but is not for everyone that's kinda strange but then it is a strange movie.

The sequel to Freeway continues the theme of incredibly Grimm fairytales and manages to be even more depraved than the original. It follows the story of a latter day Hansel & Gretel, except that in this case one is a bulimic white trash drug dealer and the other is a homeopathic mexican girl and they escape from the juvenile prison they're in to go on a killing spree. The script actually seems to forget about that whole breadcrumbs business from the original and has to tack it on as an afterthought, but apart from that it's reasonably faithful to the original.

The real fun begins when they make it to Mexico and shack up with Sister Gomez, a transexual nun played by Vincent Gallo. Yes, you did read that right. Yes, it is as weird as it sounds. And then it turns out that she/he is running a depraved child porn operation from his/her torture dungeon. So actually, it's probably not all that faithful to the original. Overall, this isn't anywhere near as good as the first film in the series, in part because no-one here has quite the same presence as Reese Witherspoon did. If you've seen the first Freeway then let that be your guide as to whether you'd like this. If you haven't seen it then try this one, if only to test how far your limits of bad taste can go.