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Summary: First Half-A real joy ride,Second half-A usual scary movie
Review: Joy ride first 50 minutes are the most instense and scary moments I have seen in a film for a long time.Ted Levine's deep voice(we all remmember him from "The silence of the lambs" as Buffalo Bill)is without no doubt the main charcter in those great moments.Paul Walker that horrified me in the awful "The fast and the furious" is tolerable here as the dumb college boy,Steve Zahn is his brother in the movie and together they make a mistake upseting Buffalo Bill(although how dumb can he get?Paul Walker's Candy Cane voice is nothing of a woman)and so a mind blowing chase is going on for 50 minutes,At that point the movie somewhat loose its power and turns out to be more of a "Scream" or "I know what you did last summer" kind of film.leelee Sobiesky(she's really hot...)playes Paul Walker's soon to be girlfriend and she joins the 2 brothers and another chase scene develops(In the Dvd there are 2 versions of the 32 ending scene)but this time you will find yourself asking...hmmm..why did Buffalo Bill returned again to chase them?Ok,So he is a mental,and something that botherd me more was that no one got killed in the end,I excpected that one of the three main charcters will get killed,That would have made the second half of the movie much more interesting and realistic,but I guess the producers were scared that the audience wouldn't want that(I wish there more endings like "Arlington Road" where everyone get killed)and so you live the cinema with a feel of some dissapointment. Despite what I've said I recommend Joy Ride simply because it's first 50 minutes are the best I've seen this year .
Rating: 
Summary: This could have easily have been PG-13
Review: Another cheap suspense thriller. In fact this is so tame that it could have been PG-13, in fact if you want to know the truth the only reason this rated R is because they say... one to many times (by my count at least 10-15). That is a cheap way to have an R rating.
Teh story revolves around two brothers on a road trip to pick up this lady friend of theirs. On the way they get one of those Trucker Radios and they play a prank on one specific trucker named Rusty Nails. When the prank goes way out of hand the trucker decides to go after them and the lady friend.
What's funny is that most of the violence revolves around the trucker either ramming the car or chasing them. There are onl;y two moments involving guns, and both are in the end and have nothing to do with the final outcome.
What's even more pathetic is that in the end they took the Hollywood route and left it open for a sequel. That is sad.
As for special features, lets just say there is only one deleted scene, four alternmate endings (warning, the original ending is basically the last 30-45 minutes in a different sequence, and a little more violent {but not much}).
Over all I say rent this, but sure as hell don't buy it, if you liked Glass House than maybe you might like this.
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Summary: Was this a comedy?
Review: After watching Joy Ride in the theater, I must say that I left more scared by the acting and writing than I did by the plot. The writing was horrible and the logic in the movie terrible. While movies don't necessarily have to be the most realistic portrayals, they should at least be believable. Stupid things that needed explaining were never explained, such as how the truck driver actually knew which car the brothers had. The line "Candy Cane" was basically all I left the theaters with. While the idea itself was pretty shaky, it could have been done well. It wasn't. If you want to be scared, don't see Joy Ride. All you will end up seeing is a generic, poorly planned scary movie that really doesn't scare at all.
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Summary: Had me on the edge of my seat...
Review: To leave the theatre.Wow. I expected more from this film. It looked like a class B thriller. Which means plenty of thrills and even some cheese thrown in for fun. It's premise is unoriginal but brilliant in these days of typical teenage slasher flicks. But somehow it just didn't work. It wasn't scary, and there was no pay off in the end. The truck driver was just some big fat dude, nothing special or scary. I just couldn't get into it, and it just didn't work on a few levels. It had some nice scenes, like the big bad truck going THROUGH this other truck in the beginning. The cornfield chase was nice looking. The end was nothing special. And I dunno when he had time to do what he did at the end. Not to ruin anything for ya. If you wanna see a better thriller road movie, rent Kurt Russell's Breakdown. It's simpler but much more mysterious and thrilling.
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Summary: BAD TITLE BUT GREAT FLICK
Review: The sub genre of teen horror is treated seriously in the superb, relentless, intense, and absorbing thriller "JOY RIDE". John Dahl ("Red Rock," "The Last Seduction") delivers a noirish and stylized tale about a college guy preparing to fly home for the summer when he has a chance to pick up a girl he has a crush on and drive her home. It's a no brainer. He sells his plane ticket, buys an old convertible and along the way bails out of jail and collects his older black-sheep brother. At a rural gas stop, they install a junker CB radio and tease a trucker in a girl's voice, telling him to meet at a motel at midnight. It's a cruel joke they get away with and soon forget as they race to where they hook-up with the girl. Paul Walker and Steve Zahn are terrific as the brothers and Leelee Sobieskei is a natural as the pretty, would be girlfriend. It should be no surprise that the trucker is not out of the picture, but now there's a real girl to menace in horrific payback. The direful voice of the trucker is malignantly rendered by Ted Levine (the killer-skinner in "Silence of the Lambs"). Extras include four alternate endings, voice auditions for the villain and a making of featurette.
Rating: 
Summary: A first class thriller
Review: I must say this is one of the better thrillers I have seen in a long time The movie kept you interested the whole way through great acting and a good plot I love movies were you get the surprise ending. This movie had great ending
no one expect this film to be as good as it was
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Summary: Are you ready for your JOY RIDE?
Review: As my dad takes me to this old Drive-in movie originally it was showing Rush Hour 2. Then we actually realized it was a double feature with, you guest it, Joy Ride. Now thinking "oh another teen slasher" it ends up to be better than I expected. Really awesome movie and a must for horror fans.....Honestly I was suprised how good it was?
*You like the characters!
*Ted Levine's cool voice!
*Filled with suspense!
*lots of action!
*It has a plot!
*It ends leading to a possible Joyride 2 *what could be better?
Rating:
Summary: It Stinks!
Review: Confused, Boring, in general it stinks! Steve Zahn was funny though, he was the only thing entertaining, which isnt enough to make the film worth seeing.
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Summary: Dahl does it again!
Review: I don't know why John Dahl's movies aren't more successful in the theaters, because nobody makes thrillers better than he does. Add Joy Ride to the list of must-see Dahl films. Like The Last Seduction and Red Rock West, Joy Ride takes quirky characters and sticks them into increasingly bizarre and dangerous circumstances. And this time around there's plenty of action to boot. Paul Walker is much better here than he was in The Fast and the Furious, and Steve Zahn is, as usual, outstanding.
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Summary: CANDY CANE
Review: Joy Ride IS NOT one of those movies that slow down just when it was getting good, it stayed on the cation and kept me guessing as to what will happen next! It is a scary movie, though, it didn't really have that much Blood/Gore (a great change) it was mostly Suspense of what lurks around the corner (my favorite). The Large Truck reminded me of The Creepers Car from Jeepers Creepers, which from a point could be a normal Truck but also can be Lethal and Deadly.
The only thing that made me give this movie a 4 other than a 5 was the ending. It was very weird the way they ended it like that, is there going to be a sequel??? I Hope So.
Overall If You're choosing to watch Joy Ride, have fun because its a great movie. And turn up the volume to give that added punch of 'whispers' around you.
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