Joy Ride

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Summary: DETOUR INTO SUSPENSE - PITY ABOUT THE TITLE
Review: A taught, white-knuckle thriller directed with panache by genre master John Dahl.

Featuring fine performances form Leelee Sobeski, Steve Zahn, and gorgeous Paul Walker.

Despite a fairly empty plot & some thin characterization, it manages to contain enough moments of suspense, humour and twists to carry it through with aplomb.

The DVD edition is a joy, with one 30-minute alternative ending (picking up from the moment when the guys walk naked into the diner), that changes the whole outcome of the movie - along with one deleted scene, three other alternative shorter endings of the original ending (including a storyboard one), and some good commentaries.

Recommended.


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Summary: oh! candy cane!
Review: this movie excels into the roadtrip from hell. even though they cast a bunch of unknown actors this movie is worthy of hitting the nail on your head. what started as a prank became a nightmare and when they try to get out of this mess it only got worse. joyride is a movie with hilarious dialogue with steve zahn and the looks that can carry a movie to capture the essense
of a scary film. the ending was odd but most scary films end like that. i give this movie high marks for its entertainment value rather then its script which by the way wasnt that bad.this movie should be seen cause of its overall liking good movie to watch around 2:00am when nobodys home.

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Summary: Joy Ride
Review: Joy Ride is a horror and humor movie that came out in 2001. Joy Ride has been one of my favorite movies since I first saw it about two years ago. I did not know what to expect, but one of my friends told me that it was one of the funniest and scariest movies that they had ever seen. So, I thought I would give it a shot, and it turns out that I now watch the movie all the time, and I brought to Illinois State with me when I moved in.
Joy Ride starts out with Lewis (Paul Walker) and his best friend Venna (Leelee Sobieski) talking on the telephone. Venna was talking about how great it would be if she had a car and could just get home at any time she wanted. Lewis, who has a crush on Venna, tells her that he has a car and will come and pick her up. So, as Lewis is leaving college for the summer and heading to pick up Venna he calls his mom while driving to Boulder Colorado, Venna's college town. His mom informs Lewis that his troublesome brother, Fuller (Steve Zahn), was put in jail again for being drunk and disorderly. So, being the good brother that Lewis is, he picks up his brother, and his brother asks to just go home with him.
After picking up Fuller, they keep heading to Colorado. Along the way, while getting gas, Fuller pays for someone to put a CB radio in the car. They first just use the radio as a radar detector, because the truckers will inform them if there are any cops ahead. After awhile of riding in the car, "Black Sheep and Mama's Boy" (Fuller and Lewis's CB names) Fuller thinks it would be funny to prank one of the truckers into thinking he is a girl. So, then Lewis, in his girly voice as "Candy Cane," talks Rusty Nail into thinking he's a girl. When they pull over to get a hotel room they invite Rusty Nail to come and join Candy Cane for a late night rondevu at the hotel. After Rusty Nail finds out about this, he comes after Fuller and Lewis for revenge. Eventually they tell Venna when Rusty Nail comes after them later on when she joins them for the ride home.
Even though throughout the whole story we never actually see Rusty Nail, I was scared out of my pants all most for the whole movie. Joy Ride, I think, is one of the better thriller movies that I have seen. Joy Ride's other great characteristic that made the movie what it is, is Fuller, Steve Vahn's, humor throughout the entire story. He kept me laughing because of his smart and sarcastic remarks. If I hadn't liked the movie, I still would have been entertained just by listening to Fuller. Plus, Paul Walker and Steve Vahn are very cute, which almost all girls know and would agree with me, so that also kept me interested.
The only thing I didn't like about the movie would have to be with Leelee Sobieski performance. I personally do not like her acting skills in general, but she did not do a great job in this movie. The fact that she was only in it half the time, I think, was a plus. It was not as if her performance was the worst I have ever seen and she was absolutely horrible, but I just think the part could have been better if played by someone who would have fit the character better.
Overall, if anyone wanted to watch a humorous, keep you on the edge of your seat movie, I would defiantly recommend Joy Ride to them. Even though there were some small details that I did not like about the movie, it still comes out to be one of my favorites. So, go rent or buy it, you will not be disappointed.


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Summary: What's with that ending?
Review: I guess I'm just a bit dense. They should have explained it better when the police sorted things out, maybe showed that ice-truck guy's body rigged to the steering wheel, gas pedal held down with a weight, etc. Oh well. I thought this movie was pretty good with the red scanner bar moving as Ted Levine (CREEPIEST voice in movie history) talked over the CB, sounding like his gums were swollen. Supporting characters like the wise-guy sheriff with the toothpick in his mouth and the nasty motel customer who ends up getting a mandible-ectomy(?) were good, camera shots of the guys' faces when they see him later in the hospital and when they were listening through the wall were effective. That nude scene in the diner wasn't too bad either. :)

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Summary: The Ending is Easy to Figure Out!
Review: Sorry, but somebody below said that Rusty Nail must have a clone or something. SPOILERS!: Rusty Nail rigged the ice man's body (the guy from earlier in the film whose truck gets torn in half by Rusty's) in his truck and used something to hold down the gas pedal to run into the motel. That wasn't Rusty Nail in the truck at all. Sorry again, I know most people could figure this out, but some like the reviewer below can't. Very good movie by the way and that Ted Levine has got a creepy voice.