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Joy Ride (Widescreen)

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Joy Ride is one hell of a thrill ride to watch. This movie is a great movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Paul Walker (Varsity Blues, The Fast And The Furious) gives another great performance as Lewis. The rest of the cast including Leelee Sobieski (Deep Impact, Never Been Kissed) also gives a good performance as Veena, and Steve Zahn (The Object of My Affection) brings some great unexpected laughs to this movie as Fuller. Now Lewis and Fuller are brothers and Lewis is traveling cross-country to pick up his girlfriend Venna but after Fuller gets out of jail Lewis decides to pick him up on the way. The two play a prank on the CB radio fooling a Trucker man in to thinking Lewis is a girl who goes by Candycane. They set up a meeting at a motel for the guy but when the girl knows as Candycane does not show up all hell breaks loose. This guy and his Big Rig soon end up chasing these 3 down and refuses to give up. I will not say any more other than this is a great movie that just keeps you wondering and on the edge of your seat. Most of the guys will like this movie cause it's not a chick flick, it's just a great film that rocks. Check out JOY RIDE cause it is one hell of a great movie ride.

for me,Joyride is a very good film.it combines elements of suspense,
action and humour skillfully.the story involves Fuller (Steve Zahn)and
Lewis (Paul Walker)Thomas,two brothers on a road trip,who play a cruel
prank on a trucker.so,the trucker decides to get revenge on them and
terrorize them.meanwhile the brothers have picked up Venna(Leelee
Sobieski)who has no idea what she is getting herself in for.However she
soon finds out as she too becomes terrorized by the trucker and will
play an important role in his revenge.basically,what follows is action,
suspense,some humour and some scary moments.this movie is a real nail
biter.the acting is convincing and the film is well paced.i highly
recommend it 4.5/5

This movie is about two brothers who go to get there girlfriends. A couple of scenes into there journey they pick up a C.B. radio and start to fool around with it. They come up with this plan to pretend that they are a hot chick called Candy Cane. they fool some guy into believing that this girl is real. When they check into a hotel, there is a grumpy guy that they set up for this Rusty Nail (Candy Cane's lover) to meet up. The next morning the brothers find out that the grumpy guy had been severally beaten by Rusty Nail. They feel bad so they admit into the C.B. that they lied and that there was no Candy Cane. One thing that they didn't know that Rusty knew what car that they were driving and that he was right behind them. Now Rusty Nail is on a plot to catch them and harm them this leads them on a chase and through a whole bunch of events that have them running for there lives.

Since Paul Walker was in it(and I hate his annoying voice and wooden acting) I was expecting this to be a total disaster. To my surprise it wasn't as terrible as I anticipated. Although if you ask me whether it was a good movie, the answer would be no. Paul(and his baby blue eyes) goes on the road trip along with his dimwitted jailbird of a brother and hot(in producer's opinion) chick that he wants desperately. On the way, they decide to play a joke on some trucker who gets pissed off and starts stalking them. Somehow this trucker(whose face we never see) knows everything about them and he appears at the most unexpected moments. Instead of going to the cops, like any normal people, the characters spend the movie trying to run away and outwit this fathom. I thought it was supposed to be suspense thriller but this is definitely "Friday 13th" kind of movie(and I'm not found of those). Paul Walker didn't stink as badly as he did in the "Fast and the Furious", but this LeeLee Sobievski who was playing the "hot" chick is one bad actress(and skanky looking one at that. I suspect the producers had the beer goggles on when she was selected for this role). However, if you compare this film with some of the other crap I've been watching lately, this can almost be called a masterpiece

This movie is pretty suspenseful, but the last thirty seconds might just be the worst ending in cinima history, or maybe rusty nail has a clone.

This was one suspenseful movie! Two of my friends sat me down to watch this one, and I was very happy with it.

The plot has been summarized before, so I will avoid that. This movie is very much a tale of suspense that you will keep thinking about for days. Paul Walker and Steve Zahn do really well in this film, but I'm not crazy about Leelee Sobieski. I've seen her in other films, and her acting is the same in all of them, lukewarm.

The first half of the movie is really good and you can really get into it, then Leelee's character is introduced and it starts to drag. This is a good movie to watch with a bunch of friends sitting there yelling at the screen.

The alternate endings are also very fabulous. Check them out if you haven't seen them yet.

And this one is. John Dahl racks up another effective modern thriller. Although the story is very simple and leaves very little to the imagination, it still draws you in and entertains you enough to make you want to see it again some time. The cast is good, and, like "Jeepers Creepers", does take some time to build up the characters enough to make you care about them so that you're not left waiting for them to die (unlike most teen/young adult slasher flicks).

But, what struck me the most, was the placement of not only one, but two vintage Brenda Lee songs (and not even one of them was "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree")! I'm telling you, I nearly jumped when I heard "Everybody Loves Me But You" start to play in that cornfield! I thought "only I would have thought to do that". And as if that weren't enough, shortly afterwards they played "I Wonder" in the motel room. Oh boy, I was overexcited. Early 60s Brenda Lee songs are probably my favorite pop songs of all time. There is nothing more exciting than a clever song placement in a movie. I don't know if it was John Dahl's idea or what, but someone deserves major props for that. (Oh, and I won't complain that in the movie they were being played by the villian. I'm okay with that. I'm sure Brenda didn't mind, either.)

Definitely a good night's entertainment.

This movie was a fun thriller/horror type movie. I wouldn't put it on my "greatest movies ever" list, but it was an entertaining movie. Take two young men (boys?), one in college, the other, his brother who is slightly on the delinquent yet very cute and funny side, and a girl the two of them lust after, played by LeeLee Sobieski, and you have yet another movie that plays to the fans of the Scream trilogy. It had a slight "been-there-done-that" feel to it, but I still caught myself all tensed-up during the most suspenseful parts. In Scream you had a sicko calling on the phone and chasing people with a knife. In Joy Ride you have a sicko stalking three college-aged kids with a CB-radio and chasing them with a semi-truck.

We rented this movie on a whim. Didn't expect much, didn't have high expectations, were just hoping it wasn't so bad that we had to turn it off. Although, if I didn't turn off Species II while watching it, I can pretty much watch anything.

So watch it we did. And we were pleasantly horrified.

Joy Ride is about the all American road trip. One brother (Lewis, played by Paul Walker), on his way to pick up a potential future girlfriend (Venna, played by Leelee Sobieski) and thence homeward bound, finds out his older brother (Fuller, played by Steve Zahn) just got "into some trouble." That trouble involves jail time, apparently. But not for very long, because Lewis bails him out.

On the way across the U.S., the two boys get into trouble by pretending they're women on the CB. The brothers go one step further than usual man-boy antics by inviting a lonely trucker over to the hotel room of another jerk who crossed their path.

Hilarity ensues.

Okay, actually, the pissed off trucker, angry that he's not getting laid by "Candycane" rips off the other man's jaw in a rage. He gets points for creativity.

The above summary does not do the movie justice. There's great tension, slow camera pans, and moments of building suspsense -- one of them just focusing on an odd picture on a wall. But we're listening to what's going on BEHIND the wall.

Joy Ride is about anonymity. I relate to the issue because my Master's thesis was about just that: what you do when you're anonymous. It can be empowering when you're the anonymous one, or terrifying when someone anonymous stalks you. And that's exactly what happens in Joy Ride.

Joy Ride has its flaws. The brothers, Fuller specifically, borders on being an unlikable jerk that you begin to hope gets killed. But the characters redeem themselves by acting like real people. They freak out, call the police, run screaming, shout for management -- they do everything *I* would do if I was being stalked by a 300 lb., 6-foot tall sexually repressed trucker. It's the actions that get them in trouble when you lose sympathy for them...until you realize just how horrible the angry trucker is.

Poor Leelee is supposed to be the eyecandy in the film (or, as the trucker puts it, the Candycane in this film). She's cute, but she's far too intelligent -- in her manner and her appearance -- to come off as the doe-eyed victim. Her role doesn't even require that much acting (for most of the film, she's drunk).

Nevertheless, Joy Ride is just plain scary. If you've ever been afraid of being stranded on the road, if you've ever been one of those little [disagreeable persons] who taunted truckers on CBs (I was one, sadly), and if you've listened to the hotel room next door wondering if people are making out or killing each other...you'll like this horror film.

For some reason when the movie was released here (australia) it had a name change to ROADKILL! why I dont know? apart from the opeining credit for 2 seconds that says ROADKILL theres no diffence bewteen the 2 editions!

When first seeing this film i was expecting a cheesy teen horror flick, but suprsingly it was pretty good! and had one of those ending that leaves you thinkign about what just happend?

The bonues features are great, its packed full with a few alternate scenes and trailers, and a voice over to see who did the best "rusty nail" voice..but the best is seeing the alternate ending which runs for just over half an hour! and comletly makes the movie a totally diffrent thing all together!!! this DVD is worth buying, but you might want to rent it first if you can and judge it for yourself!