And why, tell me, was this scene scored with Nine Inch Nail’s “Closer?” One highway chase involving cars and helicopters had me laughing in utter disbelief. It’s simply not possible everyone else in the film besides Jim and Grace are this unbelievably stupid. The killer evades detection in this film for nothing more than hackneyed plot progression. But the production value flies in the face of a film that insults its viewers’ intelligences at every turn. The sound design enhances the film’s atmosphere, where car doors opening become ominous and a gun cocking acts like a thunderclap in the night. Bright, lonely highways during the day give way to flawlessly detailed nights where rain pelts darkened roads. The acting is good, and the special effects are amazingly detailed.
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In another scene a dog licks a dead man’s head wound and my first reaction – which I choked – was to turn the movie off in disgust.Īs is the case with other of these types of films, (“ The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Hostel II”) the production value is high. Of course the couple is falsely arrested for a crime, and of course the killer ends up finding them in the police station. But here we have a film whose every shot is so obvious that fear is invoked not from knowing something bad will happen, but how bad it will be when it does. The film is produced by Michael Bay through Platinum Dunes, and though Bay gets written off by critics, his remake of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” wasn’t that bad, and the 2009 remake of “Friday the 13 th” was actually kind of good. The car that won’t start, the jump scare that’s only a dream, the innocent car you just know houses the killer. My first impressions where that of the 2001 film “Joy Ride” – but even that movie’s killer had something that resembled a motive. But the basic plot is that Jim offers a ride to a barbate stranger (Sean Bean) at a gas station, who in short time shows himself to be a murderer intent on tracking the couple through the New Mexico countryside for the rest of the movie’s run-time. What happens in-between is an implausible mess of knife murders and helicopter crashes, of headfirst swan dives into a land of disbelief. The movie follows the exploits of Jim and Grace (Zachary Kingston, Sophia Bush) who leave college in search of fun but never quite get to their spring break getaway. That’s all this movie’s about – blood and guts without rhyme or reason.
By the time the first murder occurs, the audience is no doubt expecting it. The film’s cynicism toward life is solidified ten minutes later as a dragonfly smacks into a windshield.
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What is it with new Hollywood horror being devoid of scares and suspense, their makers thinking they can reason their way out of a lifeless script with spurting blood and brain matter? Movies where serial killers become superheroes able to take down families, cops, and teenagers with only a switchblade? I feared what kind of movie “ The Hitcher” would be thirty seconds in as a cute bunny was splattered by a car on a highway.
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