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Joy Ride Movie: B Sound: A Picture: A Reviewed By: David 20th Century Fox and Director John Dahl team up to bring you "Joy Ride " "A
Hot-Wired, White-Knuckle Thriller." - San Francisco Examiner Stalked by a vengeful trucker, three friends race for their lives - it's a thrilling nail-biter with 4 mind-blowing alternate endings! Fans of Stephen Spielberg's early outing, "Duel", will never forget the fear intrinsic in a faceless trucker terrorizing a lone driver with his menacing sixteen wheeler. In an homage to that suspenseful 1971 TV classic director John Dahl (The Last Seduction) pits man against big rig in a noirish white knuckle that guarantees some thrills and chills. "Joy Ride" drives into the 1970's territory with the Duel like premise of a crazy trucker and with its reintroduction of a cultural technological phenomenon of that era a CB radio. As Fuller Thomas (Steve Zahn) one of our soon to be miserable protagonists points out just after acquiring the CB set for his brother's car, CB is "like a prehistoric internet or something." Fuller is the older and much less responsible brother bailed out of jail by Lewis (Paul Walker) who is driving across the country for summer vacation back home in New Jersey. His original plan was to spend the trip getting reacquainted with Venner (Leelee Sobieski) a long time friend he's going to pick up along the way, and who he figures might now be available since she's broken up with her boyfriend. That plan is first delayed by a "side trip" to rescue Fuller from the clutches of the law and then it's even more seriously sidetracked when Fuller goads Lewis into using his very best falsetto to seduce a CB junky truck driver into a midnight date with an unsuspecting male motel occupant. That's where things get ugly and the brothers find themselves in a heap of trouble. Hell hath no fury as a trucker mad as hell. Exposed as pranksters the trio find themselves the target of the malicious hauler, known only by the CB handle of "Rusty Nail". The prize isn't ownership of the road, but something far more valuable, their lives. Rusty realizes he's been had and in the film's most gripping scene takes out his wrath on the wrong guy. With Lewis and Fuller listening through the very thin walls of a cheap motel, the livid long hauler beats the living crap out of some poor dude who happens to be renting the room next door. When he learns of the mistaken identity Rusty makes it his mission in life to nail the pranksters. Very
Intriguing casting gives a pretty fresh face to what is ultimately a
conventional horror story. Zahn, who is consistently charismatic and
eccentric in his film roles is asked to spend far too much time here
in bulging eyed horror. The others don't fare any better as Walker is
way to bland to make an impression on me and Sobieski is primarily onscreen
only during the film's last half hour serving insignificantly as damsel
in distress. Eventually, you will be asking, how long is it going to take these dudes to realize that if a mad crazy a*s trucker is out to get you, going for the highway might not be the best strategy in the world. "Joy Ride" does stand up and is recommended. Click here to purchase this movie from our DVD store.
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