It’s all fun and games whene two brothers (Paul Walker and Steve Zahn) take off cross-country to bring home a pretty college friend (Leelee Sobieski). But the jokes end when a prank backfires and they find themselves stalked by a vengeful trucker who won’t give up his relentless chase until somebody pays with their life.Joy Ride follows the familiar conventions of road-movie thrillers with enough vitality to make everything old seem new again. A confirmed master of neo-noir suspense, director John Dahl (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction) sets a consistent tone of humor and horror as Lewis (Paul Walker) and his black-sheep brother Fuller (Steve Zahn) drive from Salt Lake City to pick up Lewis’s friend Venna (Leelee Sobieski) in Boulder, Colorado. En route, they play a practical joke via CB radio, inviting vengeful terror as an unseen trucker (voiced with exquisite menace by Silence of the Lambs villain Ted Levine) pursues them with relentless, homicidal aggression. Inevitable comparisons to Steven Spielberg’s Duel fail to appreciate Dahl’s unique talent for energizing B-movie formulas while injecting his own brand of rib-tickling excitement. While Zahn deserves extra credit in his first top-billed role, Joy Ride wins a badge of honor for everyone involved. –Jeff Shannon
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One ride you should not miss! I’m happy to report that Joy Ride is NOT just another teen slasher movie, nor is it a Scream clone, instead, it is one of the better thriller/horror film that came out of Hollywood recently. The Thomas brothers while traveling towards New Jersey decided to pull a prank on a stranger by using a CB radio, posing as a female they agreed to a midnight rendezvous with a trucker who calls himself ‘Rusty Nail.’ Hoping to get a good laugh, the brothers found instead that the joke is on them as they flees from the psychotic stranger out for revenge.
“Duel” For The Millenium In “Joy Ride”, the Director John Dahl (Last Seduction, Red Rock West, Rounders)pounds you right from the beginning and never lets up.It’s “Duel” updated for the millenium and for a contemporary audience.Two brothers, Paul Walker (Fast and The Furious) and Steve Zahn (Shattered Glass) take a road trip to pick up Walker’s college girlfriend (Leelee Sobieski).Using a CB radio, they play a practical joke on a trucker who turns out to be the biggest movie big rig psycho since Rutger Hauer planted a finger in C.Thomas Howell’s french fries.What the trucker, whose CB handle is “Rusty Nail” does to exact revenge keeps the audience on edge for the film’s 97 minutes.(Note: one of the sequences in the chillingly directed and edited climax cribs gleefully from “Silence of the Lambs”)Dahl pulls of the the difficult challenge of blending scares with a few laughs with little effort..he’s a wildly talented director with a taste for hip, off beat material.Dahl directs from a script by JJ Abrams (“Lost”) and Clay TarverThe voice of “Rusty Nail” is supplied by the great Ted Levine.Note: not long before “Joy Ride” began shooting, the studio decided it wanted a different ending, supposedly a few alternate endings were shot, one of which, running 29 minutes, is included on the DVD which also includes Eric Roberts vocal audition as Rusty Nail…Roberts obviously lost the gig to Levine.
For Good Creepy Fun Give Joy Ride a Try I am surprised at some of the negative reviews posted here?! I guess some of these folks thought they were taking home “Hamlet” and got “Joy Ride” by mistake??? Sure there isn’t much character development, sure you may have seen this premise before, and yes “Joy Ride” is a B-Movie…..and it’s a great one! I don’t know what more you could ask for with a movie like “Joy Ride”, it gave me plenty of chills, and had me really rooting for the two brothers who get on the wrong side of a homicidal truck driver. “Joy Ride” may resemble “Duel”, “Breakdown”, “Highwaymen” or any one of a hundred thriller “road” movies, but the story is definately edge-of-your-seat fun, and worth adding to your collection if you are a horror fan. Within the first 10 minutes you get sucked into this thriller and it does not let go. Ted Levine is perfect as Rusty Nail (you forget how menacing he can be after watching him as Stottlemeyer on “Monk”), and if Levine’s voice oozing through the cb radio doesn’t give you goosebumps, you should really go have your blood pressure checked! “Joy Ride” is the perfect movie to watch late at night while you cower under the blankets.