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Joy Ride (2001)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 11/25

11/25: When I saw the trailer for Joy Ride, I laughed.

Going for it afterwards, I became mostly turned off. It's the dumb script I couldn't stand...so much babble. Steve Zahn is an annoying guy, no matter how cool he seems to be. After Paul Walker and Leelee Sobieski hooked up for the first time, I was like, "Wow, an all-time bad actor meets an all-time bad actress."

Apparently, the story is I Saw What You Did meets Duel. There's no way a common trucker would be omniscient in spite of rarely driving behind the 1971 Chrysler Newport. That's genius-like level, prompting me to ask this question: "Why is he wasting time on the road?"

No matter how much these two idiot male teenagers were being hunted down, I failed to generate sympathy for them. The girl had nothing to do with it, having been caught in the middle of their mess. All I thought of was, "Why not go to the police station and just stay there?"

All in all, Joy Ride is neither suspenseful nor believable.

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