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Summary: Actually is a very suspenseful movie!
Review: I've never written a response to any movie but had to for this one. I have to say this is a great movie. It is VERY suspenseful. I don't remember the last time I sat at the edge of my seat kinda biting my nails. It's sort of like a re-hashing of "Duel" by Spielberg mixed with "Breakdown" with Kurt Russell. The best part is the ending of the movie, which i don't wanna really give away. No it's not the best movie you'll ever see, but you'll definitely have an excellent popcorn movie to watch.
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Summary: "breaker onenine, breaker onenine, this is Black Sheep over"
Review: starts off as Lewis, played by Paul Walker(both Fast and The Furious movies) who gets a car and decides to drive to go pick up his girlfriend Venna(Leelee Sobieski) but then makes a small detour to go pick up his brother Fuller(Steve Zahn, who is simply magnificent and who is always magnificent in his acting roles) and then they prank call on a CB radio and talk to Rusty Nail who they send to the Lone Star Hotel with "pink champagne" for a little joke, but that joke turns serious as the Rusty Nail fella knows who they are and starts terroizing the two boys along with Walker's girl Sobieski. the 2 lead actors skim to teh buff in one part, for all you Walker lady fans out there this is the movie to see him in it, the buffness. the end is great, but the last shot is sorta, ok. the special edition of JoyRide has a 29 minute alternate ending which they should of put that one into the end in the first place, put Isee why they choice the other one.favorite line
Steve Zahn(Fuller, on the 29 minute alternate ending)- thats it, we're gonna die in a **cking cornfield
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Summary: Joy Ride it to a Corn Field
Review: A movie that made me want to kill the brother from jail, and kill the writers for a terrible ending. The beginning is gruesome and looks like someone who maims for fun, but only falls apart with a broken down script. This is a movie that could have been. Drop the corn field, the ice man, and make an ending as terribly disturbing as the beginning. This movie should be remade to go to the heights of terror as the beginning. A three star/ 70 points out of 100 movie.
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Summary: Joy Ride runs on all cylinders from start to finish
Review: Joy Ride has everything you could ever want in a thriller, delivering 96 power-packed, intense minutes of movie magic. The DVD makes this great movie even better by dumping as many extras as is scientifically possible onto the disk. Director John Dahl and his crew got everything right: cast, plot, special effects, overall vision, etc. This is no insignificant achievement given the fact that the storyline of the movie is a familiar one that could have fallen flat in a number of different ways. Under Dahl's direction, Joy Ride delivers a uniquely impressive twist to a familiar movie formula. This is Fate at work here, thinks Lewis, when his friend Venna (LeeLee Sobieski) tells him she has broken up with her boyfriend, and he takes advantage of this opportunity by picking the girl of his dreams up in Colorado on his cross-country trip home from college. He also decides to backtrack 200 miles and bail his older brother out of jail. Fuller (Steve Zahn) left home five years earlier, seemingly just to try out for town drunk positions all over the Western US. Fuller has the bright idea of having an old CB radio installed in the car, and it is not long before he hatches up a prank to play on a certain trucker known as Rusty Nail. Lewis pretends to be a woman, gets the guy all worked up, and invites him to meet "her" that night in a hotel room occupied by a hateful fellow Fuller encountered in the hotel lobby. You know how this goes: it's funny until someone gets his lower jaw ripped out of his head. The boys head on east a little bit the wiser, but Rusty Nail refuses to go away, terrorizing them in a big way. The guys try to forget everything that happened by the time they pick up Venna, but Rusty Nail is still watching from the shadows and now sets his sights on the lovely young lady of the group. The suspense builds quite impressively over the course of the film, leading up to a climax that does not disappoint. The three main characters are just normal people, and that helps contribute to the fear factor involved in watching their insanely difficult ordeal. The voice of Rusty Nail works wonders, as his faceless presence over the CB is incredibly chilling and powerful. In the midst of all this terror, though, the viewer will find plenty of comedy. Steve Zahn is simply hilarious as Fuller; he takes gleeful delight in the prank he masterminds, yet he is at his funniest when he starts wigging out in terror, as he does on numerous occasions. Paul Walker has his moments as well, and he really serves to keep the story grounded, offsetting the hyperactive mania of Fuller and the serious and frightened attitude Venna has to adopt after learning that she is in grave danger as a result of a moronic prank. Sobieski is, of course, her always perfect self, demonstrating her acting skills across the entire spectrum from brave, determined young woman to helpless victim. The driving force behind Joy Ride, though, is that big black semi that just keeps coming and coming. The movie is more than worth its price in and of itself, but the special edition DVD simply showers us with gifts. Let's say you don't care for the ending of the movie; well, in addition to one deleted scene, you get four alternate endings to choose from, including an original, unused ending totaling twenty-nine minutes. Amazingly, all of the endings work for me, although I agree with the director that the theatrical ending is the best of the bunch. You have the option of watching the extended original ending on its own or, more impressively, during your viewing of the movie itself. The other alternate endings involve quite different final scenes, giving everyone a chance to be a hero. The extras don't stop here, though. The DVD also comes with a theatrical trailer, a short featurette, three separate commentaries, and a trio of auditions for the voice of Rusty Nail. As impressed as I was with Ted Levine's voice in the film, I was still rather amazed at just how inferior the other two Rusty Nail wannabes sounded. Joy Ride is the total thriller package and then some, and the DVD is by far the most impressive one-disk DVD release I have ever seen. Even if you come to Joy Ride for no other reason than to bask in the glory of LeeLee Sobieski (which explains my original motivation for watching the film), you cannot help but leave impressed by a truly amazing thriller.
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Summary: "Hey, can you do a woman's voice?"
Review: Hardcore horror and suspense fans really get a tasty treat of something different with JOY RIDE, and boy, we really needed it! It's about three kids; Louis and Fuller Thomas (Walker and Zahn) whom are brothers, and Venna (Sobieski), and we never learn her last name. Louis is driving across country to pick up Venna from Colorado, but then, before that, he decides to go to Salt Lake City, Utah, to bail Fuller out of jail. While driving, they fool around with other drivers through their CB radio. Fuller forces Louis into imitating a woman, and he says sexy things to a driver known as "Rusty Nail." They get Rusty Nail to come to a motel that night, thinking the woman is there. He ends up killing another man and the boys are thrown out of the state. Once on the road again, they encounter more trouble with Rusty Nail and things really get heavy when they get Venna. Definately see JOY RIDE if you want a tasty suspense film! Trust me, you'll love it!
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Summary: What you don't see can hurt you...
Review: This is a tension filled thriller with comic releif! The fact that you don't see the villian makes this all the better. This film will keep you on the edge of your seat and hoping the characters overcome their stupidity and make it out alive...
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Summary: "Joy Ride" is a riveting piece of work.
Review: If you think you're going on a joy ride with this movie, then think again. This isn't the "Fast & The Furious" street-racer type kind of thing. If it is, you're sadly mistaken. There're some boldly-captivating, gut-wrenching, heart-pounding action-sequences, in "Joy Ride" that'll make your head spin. "Joy Ride" is a riveting piece of work. This is gonna be a wild-ride, so "buckle-up." (The following is an excerpt from the movie:) Lewis [Paul Walker] takes his brother's friend, Venna [Leelee Sobieski], who's from Boulder, Colorado, along for the ride who are about to embark on this wild-adventure. Lewis eagerly hops into his classic-looking car heading-out West enroute to Salt Lake City, Utah, to picking-up his brother Fuller [Steve Zahn] who had just been released from jail. This unsuspecting trio are oblivious to what's going on - with what will eventually take place on their harrowing-journey. (It's about getting out of this thing, alive.) It's all in a little harmless fun, making some prank-calls to somebody on a CB radio while traversing this desolate stretch of highway in Utah. Whereupon which, they're talking to this weird guy driving around in a big black truck. They're given instructions by this guy that goes by the alias of "Candy Cane," who wants to meet them at some undisclosed location. The brothers and the girl, had a bad feeling about this. Filled with trepidation, they ignored the call, and went on their way. Meanwhile, they're checking-in at this roadside motel so they can relax, and get some shut-eye for the night. When they're all settled in - they get a call from Candy Cane on their CB to inform them, he's at the motel parked out front. Sure enough, this creep pulls-up in his big black truck. (He ends-up killing this guy, who's working at the front-desk of the motel.) The trio instinctivly bolts, for a quick getaway in their car, trying desperately to evade Candy Cane. They end-up being followed by Candy Cane down this country road (winding its way through this small town) to a gas station, where they're getting a fill-up. The brothers spot the guy at the gas station, and start to freak-out. They're subsequently the target of this brash truck driver's misdeeds who's in a relentless-pursuit of giving-chase, attempting to run them over with the big black truck. They find themselves "clinging-on for dear-life." They're trying to avert an imminent disaster with this scum-bag, by driving through this dusty road in a corn field. They look back in the rear-view mirror (and over their shoulders to the back window) of the car they're in, to seeing him coming their way with the big black truck riding their tail. When they get to the end of the road, the driver suddenly changes his mind and backs his rig up. Luckily, he leaves the trio unscathed. (The truck drivers name alone, is enough to send chills through your whole body.) This movie has all sorts of supense. I don't want to give the whole movie away. You'll have to see it for yourself. Paul in my opinion, did a great job of playing this complex role. He was a vigilant kind of guy (pretty tough) throughout the movie. He had the fortitude and the resiliancy to keep he, and the rest of the gang out of harms way. Some of you may be thinking: he's this pretty boy, who usually plays the cutesy roles. Frankly, I think he gave it his-all. Steve on the other hand comes-up short, with his sub-par performance. He acts like a crybaby, with his incessant whining. They should've chosen Vin Diesel (or Leonardo Di'Caprio) to play the part instead. He's much better off playing the "funny man" in a comedy piece, than he is doing the tough roles. Leelee, did an okay job as the one who got sucked-in to this mess, in the first place. There's a lot of violent chase-scenes in the film, which makes for "high-octane" thriller. This film is rated [R] for: Language, Nudity, Violence, and Gore.
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Summary: Friends and I love it
Review: I watched this movie with my friends for the first time in a ski hotel. We all loved it. Steve Zahn was good at being the comic relief, butu their was still much tension in the movie. Some parts where unpredictable, while others were. The acting is good, voice of the trucker is excellent. As much as I hate not seeing the bad guy, I think it was better not to. Made it scarier. The alternate ending is ok, I like the real one better. I would definatly reccomend seeing this movie and if you like it buy it.
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Summary: scary but super
Review: paul walker does a great job in this movie, demonstrating his true acting skills, stepping away from the usual teenage scene. this is a great thriller and keeps you on the edge of your seat. i would reccomend this movie to anybody who is looking for a great thriller.
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Summary: Entertaining But Not Perfect
Review: Joy Ride is an all right movie and gets your heart racing. In my opinion Duel, ( which this movie and many others have patterned after ) is still much better after being out 30 years. Also Road Rage is a better film of this genre as well. The acting is fairly decent and the plot is good up to the end. The end is unbelievable and corny. The culprit's plans turn out to be a big disappointment. Joy Ride IS worth your time, but some may find Duel a much better film about road furry.
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