Joy Ride

2001

Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

97
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 66% · 116 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 81262 81.3K

psychological horror chase horror gas station stalking psychological thriller

Plot summary

Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.

Director

John Dahl Photo
John Dahl

Top cast

John Maynard Photo
John Maynard as Policeman #2
Walton Goggins Photo
Walton Goggins as Cop
Stuart Stone Photo
Stuart Stone as Danny
Paul Walker Photo
Paul Walker as Lewis
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752.21 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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1.43 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Floated2 6 / 10

Prank gone wrong thriller

Relatively a lesser known film which apparently spawned a few straight to video sequels. Joy Ride is a decent thriller with some suspense, although quite predictable at times.The film moves at a reasonable pace and doesn't drag on too much.The violence isn't gory or graphic and is quite tame for a film of this genre.One of the highlights of the film is most definitely the character of the villain trucker "Rusty Nail". Although we don't necessarily see him much (only briefly near the end and for a quick few seconds), it's his voice which strengthens the performance.Questionable scenes are regarding Rusty are how well he knew the friends. How he knew the roommate and was able to kidnap her. How he was able to pick back up the radio device and put it in their trunk. Nothing was exactly explained in the end.Paul Walker and Steve Zahn bring in solid performance showing a fun level of chemistry.Overall Joy Ride is a solid early 2000's teen/young adult type mystery thriller type. Yet expected a little more. It is relatively simplistic and somewhat forgettable.
Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 4 / 10

Disappointingly derivative teen thriller

A huge disappointment, especially considering the excellent trailer which advertised this movie (turns out the trailer just about gave everything away!). I was expecting a tight, suspenseful chase flick with plenty of violence and bloodshed. What did I get? An edgy, middle-of-the-road, "teen" thriller complete with dumb humour, dumber situations, totally implausible scenarios (just what was up with that dumb-as-nails ending?) and many, many scenes ripped of from previous, better fare like DUEL, THE HITCHER, and BREAKDOWN.The main problem this film has is that its geared too firmly towards the "teen" market, so the plot is dumbed down, the situations overplayed and unrealistic, the humour out of place and irritating. The young characters are bland and one-dimensional, so that action man Paul Walker doesn't have a chance to make his lead anything other than a crashing bore. Steve Zahn fares a little better, injecting some life and spirit into his role as the mischievous brother, but Leelee Sobieski is generally appalling. The best actor? Ted Levine, playing the voice of trucker "Rusty Nail".Not much of this film is surprising, just contrived. Director John Dahl aims for suspense but is hindered by plot cliché after cliché, most of them liable to make you either groan or laugh. There are a couple of novel situations along the way, but not enough, and come the routine climax I could barely be bothered to continue watching. What's the point of spending money on a new movie when the end result is just a concoction of the 'best bits' of previous films, warmed up and lacking originality, depth or excitement? None, which is why I fail to rate ROADKILL as a worthwhile watch.
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