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Summary: Paul Walker Is Hot! (and Naked Too!)
Review: I just watch this to see Paul Walker. He is so hot and yummy. The movie is really good too. But who cares? Paul is in it. A bonus is that you see Paul's nice tanned bubble-[behind]!
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Summary: joy ride fan
Review: This movie is great I've watched it many times and I'm not sick of it yet. It's not as scary as some of these people say, but its a nail biter. The movie does have a creapyness to it, people who havent see this movie yet, really should go and see it.
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Summary: OK FILM WITH SOME NICE DVD EXTRAS
Review: Joyride is an above-average suspense film whose strength is in large part a function of the three winning lead performers and who get funny dialog and sharp direction. Steve Zahn is especially humorous as the "bad" brother, and he and Paul Walker have a natural raport on the screen that makes for a convincing sibling relationship. Leelee Sobieski looks like a teenage Helen Hunt and has her ability to combine intelligence, strength, and vulnerability. Few films of this sort have such well acted and engaging characters.The film works best in its earliest parts in which the two brothers are on their way to Colorado to pick up Ms. Sobieski. Their amusing banter and pranks are the highlight of the film. The earliest scenes with the maniacal Rusty Nail are moody and suspenseful, but the film's plot soon takes various outlandish detours, bringing this joy ride to a dead end. But even at its most ridiculous, the film includes enough wry humor, combined with the cache of viewer good will built up in the earlier scenes, to keep the audience's attention.
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Summary: A gripping thriller.
Review: This is a good movie. It's scary and full of suspence.
It's not slasher scary. It's more suspense scary. Zahn and walker are good. The girl is hot. The DVD is full of extras.
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Summary: Road rage and mind games make entertaining thriller.
Review: Joyride, while a well crafted suspense thriller, lacks the nastier edge or, more importantly, tighter plotting that makes for a classic thriller. Perhaps borrowing too heavily from other classic road rage thrillers "Duel" and "The Hitcher", Joyride tells of a young man who makes the mistake of bailing his black sheep brother out of jail while en route to pick up the unrequited love of his life. During the long, boring drive the two pick up a CB and play a prank on a truck driver named Rusty Nail. The prank turns very nasty and the youths soon find themselves stalked by a revenge seeking psycho. The movie will keep you guessing and the actors play their parts very well, seeming real people rather than stereotypes (which they could have easily been in far less talented hands). In fact the only character that comes across as less than human is Rusty Nail, and that is a deliberate decision on the part of the filmmakers. I'd like to highly recommend seeing the alternate/deleted ending on the DVD. The screenwriters and director really improved on the film's third act (though the closing minutes still needed a bit of work), considering the film used plot elements/style techniques from the aforementioned Duel and The Hitcher, playing homage to the finale of Jaws was a poor choice. In the end Joyride is not a classic, but an almost above average suspense thriller blessed by a strong director and an excellent cast. Recommended.
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Summary: Buckle Up For a Wild Ride!
Review: In Joy Ride, a young, college student, Lewis (Paul Walker) offers to take his friend Venna (Leelee Sobieski) home from Colorado and on the way, he has to go and pick up his big brother, Fuller (played by the hilarious Steve Zahn) in jail. On the way, Fuller and Lewis play a joke on a truck-driver, known as Rusty Nail, using the CB radio in their car. Lewis pretends to be a girl, nicknamed Candy Cane and flirts relentlessly with Rusty Nail. Their seemingly innocent joke soon turns into terror that has them trying to dodge a crazed and angry trucker, who's out for revenge. Joy Ride is an "edge of your seat" thriller that has you asking the question, "what's going to happen next?" throughout the whole movie. The first time I saw it, I had rented it and I quickly went out and picked up my own copy. It's definitely the best movie I've seen in a long time! I strongly recommend checking this out. You will love it.
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Summary: Dissapointing ending
Review: "Joy Ride" is a movie that starts off relatively well, then becomes quite enthralling before beginning to drag in the middle. Then there's a second shot of adrenaline that follows through until the end of the movie. All in all, the movie itself is not bad, but the ending leaves much to be desired. The writers either became tired of writing the movie and ended it as soon as possible or they tried, rather unsuccessfully, to create the shocking ending that accompanies modern thrillers. Steve Zahn does make a good performance as the off-the-wall, somewhat criminally inclined brother of Paul Walker. His zaniness is a nice addition to the thriller genre. The romantic interest, Leelee Sobieski, is played relatively well, but neither the character nor her role is completely developed. In the end, "Joy Ride" is worth seeing, just be prepared for a dissapointing finale.
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Summary: Suspense/horror as it used to be: lean, funny and terrifying
Review: 'Joy Ride' - a nerve-knocking thriller about two brothers and a girlfriend chased through the byways of America by a monu-mental truck after playing a practical joke - has predictably been compared to Spielberg's 'Duel'; but whereas that film's evasion of human psychology or motivation gave it an abstract or mythic dimension, there's a very good reason why this particular trucker is in a bad mood. The promise of a midnight motel encounter after long solitary months on the desert road turns out to be the grotesque mirage of a foul-mouthed, middle-aged racist man. All that built-up desire has to find release somewhere, and the solitude and mental hermeticism engendered by the shadow-existence of truckers suggests the channels won't be so straight. I thought 'Joy Ride' had much more in common with two recent, acclaimed teen movies - the Mexican classic 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' (both films are road movies with two intimate, but fractious boys jostling over the favours of a more emotionally mature woman), and Larry Clark's 'Bully' (the weird psychosexual relationship between the brothers is a mixture of deep family attachment and boorish thuggery). It is the relationship between the brothers that is most fascinating, their own sexual suppressions mirroring that of the truck driver; the latter's name, Rusty Nail, suggesting merely a decrepit version of a masculine desire they all share (the film is full of sharp phallic objects, put to squeamishly painful use). Before they are even seen in the same frame with a girl, the boys are exchanging sex talk, and the fact that both have just spent time in confinement with other males (Lewis in his college dorm with a roomate; Fuller in prison), irresistably leads us to read this banter, and the pracitcal joke (with Lewis really enjoying playing the teasing woman) as deferrals of repressed homosexuality. The truck, which is always looming large behind them, can be seen as a classic displacement of the repressed, the id that haunts and seeks to destroy the ego. 'Joy Ride' is a morality play, not about the dangers of prank calls, or even of playing with sexuality, but the dangers of denying your true sexual self, which can only become distorted and perverted, destroying all around you, including the girls you profess to long for. These are mere afterthoughts - the actual experience of watching 'Joy Ride' is one of exhilirating terror (by the end, I was hiding under my seat), punctuated by dread-leaking calms. John Dahl's three strenghts mark 'Joy Ride' as a return to form - his comic understanding of sexual dynamics between people; his anti-Western sense of empty American plains, which seems initially to be a paradise of unmarked open spaces and automobile freedom, but turns out to be a constrictive labyrinth in which those classic American hiding places - filling stations, motel rooms, giant crop fields - offer no refuge, with the wide vistas by day clamped down by night, and peopled by a Dahlian gallery of hostile locals; his canny sense of class, and the resultant, often unconscious power games it can unleash (see the fetishistic importance of Lewis' credit card) - with new ones, such as a thrilling clarity of narrative, and a facility with the big, suspense set-piece which, like Hitchcock in playful mood, elides the line between horror and hilarity with admirable ease. This, mercifully, never descends into the flip knowingness of a Kevin Williamson, evincing a more rigorous, 70s-style cinephilia (i.e. 'Joy Ride' is more Carpenter than Craven). It deserves a place with that other under-rated, terrifically-acted, oddly unnerving teen suspenser, 'Final Destination'.
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Summary: Joy Ride a fun film
Review: I watched this movie on a whim and surprisingly, it was really fun to watch. The CB radio stuff is hilarious with "Candy Cane." Sure, the ending is predictable and it is not extremely scary or anything, but it is a lot of fun for a Saturday night. The movie is decently acted compared to other young adult, teenage type films. Worth looking at.
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Summary: John Dahl strikes again.
Review: The sort of bore with sreaming teens and an unstoppable killer clutters up video stores. Tis shows what talent can do with that old wheeze. If you liked Kill Me Again, Red Rock West and Last Seduction give this a try. Constant suspense, and as an extra some killer truck scenes. The bad guy is not as interesting as say Michael Madsen and the cast no Nick Cage or Val Kilmer or Dennis Hopper but they work fine. Give it a try but don't start watching at night if you have to get up early the next day. A winner.
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