Cert: 15 cert
Director: John Dahl
Screen writer: Clay Tarver, J.J. Abrams
Starring: Steve Zahn, Paul Walker ,Leelee Sobieski ,Jessica Bowman ,Stuart Stone ,Basil Wallace ,Brian Leckner ,Mary Wickliffe ,McKenzie Satterthwaite ,Dell Yount ,Kenneth White ,Luis Cortés ,Michael McCleery ,Jim Beaver ,Rachel Singer
Running time: 97 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: The two male main characters are forced to walk naked into a restaurant. We see several shots of their bare butts.
Some sexual dialogue
Violence & Gore:A man is shown in a hospital bed with his lower jaw missing (we see bloody tissue and his upper teeth) and a police officer describes it as having been ripped off by a perpetrator.
Two young men and a young woman are chased by a truck through a cornfield; they're nearly hit several times, and at one point they fall into a ditch and the truck goes over them.
A car side-slams into a tree and a truck pins it and begins crushing it; two young men are inside (glass begins to shatter and metal crumples).
A man punches a window and grabs another man, and throws him to the ground where he lands on a metal rod which pierces his leg (we see some blood on his pants).
A man steps on his wounded leg causing him to scream.
The man with the imbedded metal rod in his leg is then hung on a fence -- the rod is attached to the fence and he screams when another man tries to get him down and remove the rod.
A man describes the best way to keep a corpse unidentifiable: cut off all ten fingers and then the jaw.
A woman is taped and tied to a chair and a shotgun is rigged to a door that, if opened, will blast her in the face.
A truck slams through the middle of another truck tearing it in two (we assume the driver of the split truck is killed when it explodes), and a truck barrels down on a group of people and police officers; the officers open fire.
A man approaches a woman hiding in a cornfield, grabs her and takes her away as she screams and struggles.
A man talks about taking a victim apart piece by piece.
A car catches fire and explodes, and a car is chased down a dead end road by a truck until they can go no farther; the occupants of the car panic and start yelling.
A truck crashes through a hotel room; a man is then shown with a very bloody arm and chest.
We hear the muffled whimpering and screams of a young woman on a CB radio, and a young woman screams for help on a CB radio.
We also hear a struggle through a wall and a description of a gasping/gurgling sound.
A young woman is shown bound and gagged in the back of a truck.
A young man drives recklessly and drives off the road to make a point.
A young man yells abusively at a man on a CB radio.
Two young men panic and yell at each other when they think they are being chased by a truck.
There is a conversation about a young man having been put in jail on a drunk and disorderly charge.
Profanity: 17 F- words, 20 scatological terms, 1 sexual reference, 16 anatomical terms, 22 mild obscenities, 9 religious profanities and 7 religious exclamations.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Bar scenes show people getting drunk
Frightening/Intense Scenes: The whole movie is very intense, and has a lot of terrifying moments.
There is some disturbing violence; most of it is implied, but the after-math of a little bit of it is shown.
There is some violence which is intense but mostly non-brutal, with little sights of blood and gore.
Story: College student Lewis decides to drive across the country to see Venna, a friend who doesn't know that Lewis is interested in her romantically. Unfortunately for his plans, Lewis gets saddled with his raucous-spirited older brother, Fuller, whose on-the-road pranks get the brothers and Venna sucked into a nightmare when a psychotic truckdriver takes offense.
Likes : "Joy Ride" is an extremely entertaining road-set horror/thriller that was surprisingly quite good. The film is about Lewis (Paul Walker), a college coed who decides to buy himself a car and take off across the desert to pick up a would-be-girlfriend, Venna (Leelee Sobieski) in Colorado for a road trip together. He then learns that his older troubled brother, Fuller (Steve Zahn) has been arrested in Salt Lake City, so he picks him up on the way. After having a CB radio installed into the car, the two take off to pick up Venna, but end up pulling a prank on an anonymous trucker who goes by the name of "Rusty Nail" (excellently voiced by Ted Levine) on the CB radio.
This is where this film takes on a deadly serious tone, as a prank backfires on them as they are dealing with a physio path truck that looks for more than just a apology, it starts getting nasty.Though out most of this film it has the concept of hitchhiker with a psychopath & dual feel with a truck to the film. Paul walker, Leelee sobieski & steve zahn done a pretty convincing performance, as well as Ted Levine with the menacing voice over the radio, what is clever is they don't show what he looks like until the very end which adds the intense dark mood the film take as it kicks off.
Overall, "Joy Ride" is a superior action-filled horror/thriller that came as a big surprise to me. It was intelligent, tense, scary, and very well-written, which was nice because of my semi-low (no pun intended) expectations going into it. People who enjoyed "The Hitcher" will more than likely also enjoy this road trip from hell. Very well done and worth seeing for both horror and thriller fans alike.
Dislikes : My only complaint with this film is there could of been a bit more bloody scenes for the nature of the film, but as it was it not to bad.
Overall : intense roller-coaster ride of terror, great performances, not bad a horror thriller.
Rating: 4.6 out of 5 for the entertainment / 7.6 out of 10 for story-line
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