Joy Ride (2001)
6/10
"I'm on a highway to hell!"
18 July 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. Simple premise, very straightforward story that had lots of Intense suspenseful scenes that keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time.

Something that started off as benign joke between two brothers turns in a nightmare quick. I think the two leads did pretty good job & it's a distance amount of character development where you get invested just enough to genuinely care about what happens to them.

(Lewis) is the younger brother but yet more mature & level headed as the older brother (fuller) inferior irrational one who seems like he's struggling to get his life together. The common misconception is that with age comes a level of maturity but that's not the case, But I love his enthusiasm through out the whole film & he had some non-intentional funny moments.

I think the movies does a great job at not fully revealing the man identity in the truck, pretty much keeping it a mystery which adds to the eeriness .

With that being said I do have some negatives to express about the film. Some directions they took wasn't logical like how was this man able to follow them around in the this era where we didn't have technology?? Was trying my hardest to make sense of it & the first conclusion I came up with was that he was able to trace them through the radio but at one point fuller threw the radio out the car 😭 so that left me puzzled. Or after the near death experience the first time why they ain't report it to the cops like this movie could've really been over in 46 minutes but of course they gotta figure out a way to keep the story going .
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