Joy Ride

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Summary: One heck of a ride!!
Review: Joy Ride was a great thrill ride. I've seen plenty of thriller and horror movies, but this one is very unique. Psycho truck driver seeks revenge on two guys that "toy" with him over a C.B. As they say, basically a prehistoric internet. The truck driver known as "Rusty Nail", stalks and decides to play his own little game with them. Not a board game, but a game where the life of one of the brothers girlfriends, is coming to a stop. The movie takes you into spins and thrills, both scary and funny, but in the end your heart will be beating fast, as the race between life and death begins. I learned a good lesson...don't anger a trucker!

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Summary: NEVER EVER PLAY
Review: a practical joke on anyone because you don't know who is psycho out there!
That is the main point to this story, which was very different than I had expected. It didn't resort to bloody grisly murder scenes but did that old Hitchcockian thing and thrived more on the suspense of it all.
Steve Zahn(Fuller) and Paul Walker(Lewis) play two brothers who are on the road travelling to pick up Walker's girl, Venna, played by Leelee Sobieski. On the way to Venna, they decide to get on the cb radio(yes, cb) and play a joke on a trucker. Lewis pretends to be a woman(candycane) on the prowl. They trick him into meeting "candycane" at a hotel. Little do they know who they are dealing with. This guy is a full fledged murderer, and doesn't like being tricked. Kudos to Director John Dahl for this interpetation of horror. It doesn't quickly rush into the gore and stupidity that other recent horror films are notorious for. "Jeepers Creepers" has one similarity with this movie -- a truck chasing a car. The main characters in "Joy Ride" were stupid to mess around with this guy, but they learn a valuable lesson whereas the main characters in "Jeepers..." are just plain dumb.
The acting was fine, not brilliant. Zahn is the best actor in the film. And creepy Ted Levine, best known as Buffalo Bill in "Silence of the Lambs" gives our "monster" his voice.
If you can appreciate the suspense behind it all and not just the blood and gore, you will probably like this.

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Summary: Take A Joy Ride
Review: Are you one to watch watch horror or slashers? Do you like to be scared? Well if so Joy Ride is the movie for you...although it's not a slasher, it's filled with suspense all the way on this ride! I gave it five stars because of it's well planned out plot and the movie itself. Go ahead and see for your self; that is if you DARE!

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Summary: A grisly and fastly-paced thriller
Review: Reminiscent of Speilberg's telemovie DUEL; this horror film focuses on two young males who play a dirty trick on a seemingly "innocent" truck driver but only end up being his desired victims when their little joke turns sour. Stylishly photographed (Jeffery Jur) and creepier than one would expect with its expected fair share of grizzly moments. Although contains an abundance of noticeable plot holes (especially the ending), it still entertains without trying to be anything too special. Filmed in 2000. International title: ROAD KILL.

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Summary: Joy Ride: You will watch it again and again and again and...
Review: Joy Ride was, however, much more entertaining than I thought - I throughly enjoyed it. One thing that really adds to the movie that you aren't expecting going in is that it is actually a very funny movie. The suspense and action scenes are very good, and the bad guy's voice is the creepiest I've heard in awhile. This is a great movie you will watch again and again...

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Summary: One of the scariest horror movies I have ever seen !
Review: This movie is one of the scariest ever. Yes, I admit it start off slow, but if you follow it long enough and are patient, the slow part is what creates the entire movie. There are many points where you think everyone is safe, then, out of the blue, they are not. Nice to take an equal other to see if he/she bounces out of their seats.

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Summary: Totaly amazing
Review: This movie is definitely a guy or a girl movie. The action is great speed of the movie is awesome and the movie is hilarious. If your a girl you'll love Paul Walker, he lights up the screen. If your a guy Leelee Sobieski who plays Venna is great as well. This thrilling movie is a date renter You girls will be drooling with naked bum scenes and you guys you'll be killing yourself with laughter. I totaly recommend this movie to anyone who is the mood for a Funny Thriller

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Summary: Modern"Duel"
Review: If youre in the mood for an uncommonly witty, decidedly unpredicable, savagley sardonic, and oppressively ambient adrenaline pumping suspense thriller, than look no further than Joy Ride. Starring Paul Walker (Lewis Thomas), Steve Zahn (Fuller Thomas) and Leelee Sobieski (Venna Wilcox). John Dahl's (Last Seduction, Red Rock West) effervescently dynamic Joy Ride is a psychological laced narrative that habitually leaves the viewer breathlessly craving more and hesitantly doing so. Joy Ride's unaccommodating manipulation of intelligent fear with an unadultrated depraved sense of humor that spikes the film's thrills with unexpected and uncomfortable laughs in typical Hitchcockian style. Joy Ride seems to have it all.

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Summary: Superb movie - an outstanding masterpiece
Review: Joy Ride represents the metaphorial zenith what a thriller should deliver on a regular basis. Instead of providing the audience with overabundant gore and exceedingly outrageous cleavage and nudity, why not just tell a comprehensively sound story that amuses with ingenuity rather than excess. Charged with indulgenty clever shrewdress in its presentation, Joy Ride demonstrates acutely the rather sparkling joys of suspenseful storytelling that as of late continue to be ignored by a majority of the Hollywood establishment.

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Summary: One of the year's best films!
Review: I can't remember the last time I had so much fun at a movie. The villian Rusty Nail has the scariest voice I have ever heard! Listening to him on the CB radio (Candy Cane.. I'm looking for Candy Cane...) is enough to send chill down your spine. You'll have to watch the movie to know whether he does show his face or not in the end. The plot is full of suspense and energy, and the cast is, among other things, believable. The title is a perfect description of the film itself, which, in this humble critic's opinion, is one of the year's best films.