Thursday, 5 June 2014

Film Review: Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead

Genre: Crime | Thriller

Cert: 18 r-rated

Director: Louis Morneau

Screen writer: James Robert Johnston,  Bennett Yellin , Clay Tarver , J.J. Abrams


Starring: Nicki Aycox, Nick Zano , Laura Jordan , Kyle Schmid , Mark Gibbon , Krystal Vrba ,Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Rob Carpenter , Gordon Tipple , Rebecca Davis , Daniel Boileau , Lyle St. Goddard, Mackenzie Gray ,Sean Tyson , Chris Kalhoon , Gardiner Millar , Colette Hills 

Running time: 91 min


Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & NudityA woman pulls down her top, revealing her bare breasts and hard nipples.
A refrigerated corpse is removed from its chamber at the morgue. It is a dead (obviously) woman; her bare breasts are shown briefly.
A woman undresses in front of an 18-wheeler's headlights. She strips down to her bra and panties.


Violence & Gore: A woman attempts to escape an 18-wheeler out of the window and is stuck. Meanwhile, the 18-wheeler cranks up and is headed towards a parked semi only inches away. The woman is then decapitated -- blood splatters on the side of the rig.
A woman cuts off a deceased woman's finger with some sort of medical instrument. The severed finger is shown with a small amount of blood.
A trucker takes a cigarette lighter and applies it to a man's severed finger stump.
A trucker saws through a man's face with a sharp bike chain. Very bloody. A severed jaw is shown afterward.
Two young women are bloody after getting into a car accident. Mild.
A trucker hits a man in the kneecap with a hammer.
A trucker heats a metal keychain with a torch and then sticks it into a man's shirt pocket, branding him.
A trucker impales a man through the top of his head with a long piece of rebar. Intense.
A woman smacks a man in his face with a shovel.

Profanity:  38 variations of the F-word.
7 uses of the word sh*t.
4 variations of the word ass.
6 uses of the word b*tch.
3 uses of the word hell.
A few other mild obscenities are also used.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A man buys a pack of cigarettes and lights one up shortly after purchasing them.
A trucker is seen puffing on a cigarette.
A trucker is seen purchasing cigarettes from a cigarette machine.
A man is forced to ask someone for crank (meth.)

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  A man with an eerie voice talks on a CB radio throughout the film.
A 18-wheeler crashes into a muscle car, causing it to flip onto its roof. Shortly after, the truck deliberately makes a second round and causes the muscle car to explode.
Two men are bound to chairs and are forced to play a torture version of the popular casino game "craps".


Story: While driving to Las Vegas for the bachelor party of her sister Melissa and her fiancé Bobby, Kayla stops the car in the gas station to meet her date, Nik, a guy she met on the internet. Nik convinces her to take a secondary road under the protest of Bobby but the car breaks down. They find a house in the middle of nowhere and decide to take the car parked in the house's garage to the next city, and return with a rented car to pay for the damages provoked by Nik; Melissa leaves her cell number. However, they discover that the owner of the place is the sadistic truck driver Rusty Nail and they have to pay a high price for what they did.

Likes : The isn't bad for a sequel , if i was to say which one was better its kind of hard because both the first film & the second had the quality, like the first film was more intense where this one has more of the blood scene. Only this time this story is on 4 teenage on a road trip to Vegas when there car breaks unknown to them they break into a house that looks abandon that put them all in the cross hairs of Rusty Nail's a psychopathic truck driver.
 Nicki Aycox does bring a certain edge to this film as your thinking that she going to be the damsel in distress character but its surprise that she turns out to be a bit psycho offers a even match to rusty nails character, were as the other three come across as the Victim's character.
it definitely had its flaws: the script had some faulty logics of its own and it was sometimes cliché and predictable (btw, did anyone actually believe the ice truck driver at the gas station was Rusty Nail at the end of the first film.This might not be for everyone but still worth watching the once.


Dislikes : the trouble with the concepts of this film is the fact its predictable & falls in to the trap of being the same old story as the first film, this is why these film tend to not do so well with sequels being made, i think this should of been a one off film to be honest instead of 3 film's.

Overall : predictable, more gore than the first one & less intense, great acting, surprising twist

Rating: 4.2 out of 5 for entertainment / 6.1 out of 10 for story-line




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