Joy Ride (2001)
Film details
View on IMDb ↗CastSteve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman, Stuart Stone, Basil Wallace, Brian Leckner, Mary Wickliffe, McKenzie Satterthwaite, Dell Yount
Review
"Directed by the meticulous John Dahl (1994's "The Last Seduction"), who excels at telling noirish stories of murder and mayhem, "Joy Ride" is an absolutely merciless thriller--exciting, marvelously crafted, strongly acted, and with more than a few moments destined to increase your heartbeat. Taking a short premise that could be described as "three victims terrorized by a giant truck," director Dahl and screenwriters Clay Tarver and J.J. Abrams thankfully do not clutter the ingenious storyline with lots of subplots, nor do they feel it necessary to ever visually unveil the psychopath behind the big rig. Not knowing exactly what Lewis, Fuller, and Venna are up against makes for an even more unshakably eerie experience." - Dustin Putnam, The Movie Boy
Ranking history
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