The Neon Highway (2024)

The-Neon-Highway-(2024)
The Neon Highway (2024)

Wayne, a singer gets acquainted with Claude Allen, once a top player in business who is now a washed-up. They head over to Nashville in order to try and sell a song but in spite of their efforts, they don’t succeed. However, Wayne learns the means of promoting the song and does it but only for Claude. Synopsis Claude is only promoted by Wayne. 

The true highlight of The Neon Highway which last year did have a sober release on VOD and in Nashville, and even now was able to premier on Netflix, Boreal Bridges taking center stage with his country music proved that he is versatile and can act any role even if the role is minor. 

Blake’s old comrades’ life is much like Crazy Heart’s characters but this time no one wants to take him so he mentors his younger still-in-the-business student about how he deserves the type of fame he is not prepared for and that he shouldn’t have earned. And the promised effect is exactly the way a country song is, this kind of thing always leaves so much behind the sad episodes, the little context of current times and the best and most sad sighs throughout the whole piece. 

The Neon Highway, however, does get revival and companions for quite a lot of the thing emblems industry cliches.

William Wages served as the director of the movie and Phillip Rob Bellury worked with him to write the script for it. The role of Wayne Collins in The Neon Highway is performed by Rob Mayes who is also a real-life singer, and actor in the films John Dies at the End and Thor: Ragnarok, he acts as a typical nine-to-five worker who is trying his best to provide for his family. Devoted to the thought of planning to get his family a new washer and dryer, he decides to do the double shift. Unfortunately, Wayne’s boss tells him that in order to be taken seriously, Wayne must stop the guitar business. Wayne was quite prepared to set off on his career as a solo recording artist, but first, he was to abandon the promising path of the Nashville music business alongside his brother Lloyd (played by T.J. Power from Eat Pray Love). Everything gets turned upside down when Lloyd is in an automobile accident, and everything changes after such an unfortunate incident.

Two decades later, as he is in the midst of completing a project, he comes across an old country singer Claude Allen who is now back in his parents’ home and is played by Beau Bridges in Dreamin’ Wilds. Looks like this guy could catch fire if a mere candle was held too close to him. During their chat, they realize that there is a way through which both of them can be of assistance to one another. Wayne wants Claude for the reason that he could perform for him on the stages and make money out of it and Claude wants Wayne in his team because he can assist him with writing songs. 

If this plot rings a bell, it is not from that classic episode of Saturday Morning California Dreams or Kris Kristofferson with a guitar who is about to scream into his microphone. The one with the rusty-headed old guy is always seen with the younger version of himself, trying to undo the problems the older guy created for corrupt politicians.

Bridges’ portrayal is average, and comical even at times, especially when the kids walk up to him and say things like ‘My Grandma used to love you a lot’. But then again, it does not excuse the fact that his script reflects a style that is always below dazzling, and lacking in substance which is so characteristic of an actor who has been handed down skills from a family of actors.

In contrast, for those people who have an inclination to the film and like country music, it does have a plot that is different from the usual. It definitely has some flaws and at certain points, it does not hit the bull’s eye, but the fact that it is not your run-of-the-mill country drama makes it rather appealing. Not to mention because Arturo Sandoval is a Cuba-American Jazz musician his movie has Lee Brice’s music in it which is a film and the ambiance fits perfectly. 

However, this combined with the direction and originality of The Neon Highway leads me to think that the whole was somewhat less than the sum of its parts. It bears such a scintillating narrative that it makes one feel slightly dated. Or Taylors have all popularized melodrama as a Western genre trope. Other than Bridges and possibly Mayes and their barely there performance that pushed the bar so low, the almost the same vast reach as Kevin Costner Western are aiming to set steady within a tight subgenre.

If you’re looking for a much better movie starring a country singer, check out Ethan Hawke’s Blaze on Tubi. Now, The Neon Highway, if the need arises, appears to cater to the enthusiasts of country music as well as the genre of music used in it.

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