IMDB Rating: 6.50, 12496 votes |
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The plot concerns Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker), a young man who decides to go cross-country to pick up his high school sweetheart, Venna Wilcox (Leelee Sobieski), from college. On his way there, he bails his brother, Fuller Thomas (Steve Zahn), out of jail. Fuller, looking for a good time, decides to ride with Lewis. During their trip to pick up Venna, Fuller coaxes Lewis into playing a cruel joke, through their CB radio, on a truck driver, known only as 'Rusty Nail' (voiced by Ted Levine). When the joke takes a deadly turn, Lewis, Venna, and Fuller find themselves being relentlessly stalked by the psychotic truck driver who is looking for more than an apology.Actors
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10 Comments
WOW!!!!!!!!!
Maybe worth a matinee
Plot: 5
Originality: 5
Visuals: 4
Acting: 3
Overall: 4.25
the stupidity of the characters was actually quite fascinating
it will keep your attetnion, wished it had better ending
it was good it wont be movie of year but it was good. the ending was kidn of dumb, you never fidn the killer, but they way it left you hanging, there will be a sequal like "I STILL KNOW" what you did last summer. it was better than jeepers creepers. I’d probably see it agian after a few weeks when in the mood to watch a good suspense movie
A riveting and intense thrill ride of a movie!
Bad, Bad, Bad.
This is a typical teen horror movie.
No story, no plot, no sense.
An unbelievable story about a sick truck driver. I mean why can’t you hide from a truck in a dark corn field.
The worst thing is that it was so bad that there will probably be a Joy Ride 2.
Actually, the joke is on YOU!
Ever heard of Steven Spielberg’s DUEL? Rutger Hauer and C. Thomas Howell in THE HITCHER? A little Australian nail-biter called ROAD GAMES? Have you ever even read or heard about the "Hitchhiker" episode from the original TWILIGHT ZONE series? If you haven’t seen or heard of any of the aforementioned films, you are in for ninety minutes of truly terrifying suspense. If you have, be warned: YOU HAVE ALREADY SEEN THIS MOVIE.
Since the SCREAM trilogy broke records, this is starting to become a habit. Take an attractive cast, an oh-so-ironically self-aware storyline, a good-to-passable director and turn ‘em loose to see what happens. JEEPERS CREEPERS comes to mind, and that was indeed the most gripping half-a-movie I have ever seen.
JOY RIDE swerves to avoid hitting the same walls…just barely. Paul Walker, of THE SKULLS and THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS plays a young guy driving cross-country to see a girl he’s very interest in, played by Leelee Sobieski, (who’d better start picking out scripts that are a LOT better than this.)
On the way, he gets not-so-good news. His ne’er-do-well brother (Steve Zahn) has landed in the pokey again, and now it’s little brother’s turn to play Big Bro and get him out of his jam. Too bad he didn’t just leave him there. Steve introduces Paul to the joys of "the prehistoric Internet," i.e.: CB radio, and while on the road, he cajoles, goads and coaxes his goody-two-shoes sib into helping him play a prank on a CB’er with the handle "Rusty Nail" (a truly chilling off-screen performance by Ted Levine, who played Buffalo Bill in SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.)
It’s the oldest trick in the book, with a payoff that has attained urban legend status…until you see the payoff turn into a payback of proportions you wouldn’t want to imagine in your worst nightmares.
Not a bad premise, and John Dahl, the director of RED ROCK WEST, AFTER DARK, MY SWEET and THE LAST SEDUCTION, knows how to tone down the sinister, smoky sensuality of his usual film-noir scenarios and amp up the sheer terror to eleven.
Two things had me biased against this movie from the git-go: one, almost nothing I’ve seen has come close to rivaling or even equaling the terror of Robert Harmon’s THE HITCHER, (until Jonathan Mostow’s excellent BREAKDOWN, with Kurt Russell.) Never seen it? Rent it NOW, and then tell me that JOY RIDE is more terrifying.
At a time when we are more aware of our surroundings, and that Bad People truly are among us, and most of them look like smiling Mr. Smith next store instead of Freddy Krueger, would somebody still be as STUPID as Steve Zahn’s character is, playing a childish prank and not expecting any repercussions to follow? (Okay, the payback Rusty Nail delivers is off-the-scale in terms of "teaching them a lesson," but how could they have been so DUMB??)
Not to mention that several things the "phantom" trucker does completely defy all laws of rationality and believability, leaving plot holes the size of his semi in the script. But after a while I just went with it, and had a good time nevertheless.
You won’t regret waiting for this to hit the VHS or DVD shelves. But my strongest recommendation? If you haven’t seen DUEL or THE HITCHER, see both of them, first.
This a real nail-biter. One of the best thrillers that I have seen this year.
dont mess wit truck drivers lol
i thought it was an excellent movie…i mean i was on the edge of my seat…i was freakin scared =) and the ending threw me!!!!
parts of it r cool, but…
mostly it all adds up to not much. there r some fairly intense scenes, as well as a little comic relief, but taken as a whole, a good movie they do not make. as much as i like LeeLee Sobieski, she was wasted.(i’m beginning to wonder how she chooses scripts, lately, as "The Glass House" was miserable) Steve Zahn, was really good, he was actually the only player that was even entertaining. i was hoping director John Dahl would deliver something at least, almost, the equal of his wonderful, "Red Rock West", or "Last Seduction", but unfortunately, for his audience, he doesn’t!