David Arnold
Bobby and Melissa are on a road trip to Las Vegas with Melissa's sister, Kayla, and her "boyfriend", Nik, who she met online. Unfortunately, their car breaks down and when they come across a seemingly abandoned house, they decide to "borrow" a car they find in the garage. What they don't know is that the house wasn't abandoned and the car belongs to a trucker who goes by the name of Rusty Nail. Rusty Nail contacts Melissa after she leaves her number at the house, and to say that Rusty Nail isn't happy that they took his car would be an understatement. A dangerous game of cat-and-mouse ensues, and Rusty Nail will stop at nothing to take more than what he thinks he deserves.Joy Ride 2 is not too bad of a follow up to the enjoyable Joy Ride. I mean it's obviously not the best movie you'll see but it's definitely not the worst one either. It's really nothing more than an average road trip slasher film that is quite high in gore and low on plot and story. But then again you don't watch a movie like this for a riveting storyline.Here, the character of Rusty Nail has went from a seemingly lonely trucker who was just pranked (as in Joy Ride) to now what seems to be a serial killer who just kills for the pleasure of it. A Jason Voorhees of the highway if you like, and I think that's the main reason why the movie's not as good....it's gone down the stereotypical slasher path with your usual stereotypical characters.If you don't mind the usual cliché slasher movie then you will probably quite enjoy Joy Ride 2. Watchable but nothing to get too excited over.
thesar-2
Joy Ride 1 really wasn't that bad of a movie. It's nice to be able to see scenes in horror movies, i.e. in full daylight (also see The Devil's Rejects.) And Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead really wasn't that bad either. That being said, I was glad it was direct to DVD. The way it started off (Red flags shot straight up: here we go again! Back to Texas (yes, this was Utah, I know) and back to the chainsaw family seemed to be the setup) and the way the Internet punk transformed in the final act, were the extremely bad parts. If you can make it past the opening, and bear through the closing, it wasn't a terrible psycho preying on lost 20-something lost kids. The acting was okay (aside from the changed Emo boy), dialogue wasn't too awful (miss the Ted "Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb" voice over, but this one was close enough) and suspense was good enough to give it one watch. After a day of watching Saw V followed by Joy Ride 2 – I would say they're both mediocre horror sequels that are worth watching, if just at home.
Abdol-Rahman Alkhalaylah
We watched the big truck jumping out of that cliff, then it exploded, the worst and the most disappointing thing was when I saw Rusty Nail again with a new truck , as if nothing happened to him , the question is : from where did he buy a new truck again? and I thought that I saw his body falling with his truck , right? Is he immortal or something? and I thought he killed those people because they made him angry but in the end , we saw him taking that woman without any reason, her car was just broken down please , it does not deserve 5/10 and please warn us about similar movies, I lost one hour and a half watching this movie at 2
elshikh4
From a certain angle, this is so rare horror. Not many movies I remember dealt with the humiliation as a factor of horror. This time taking the clothes off, for a girl, or walking in drag, for a straight boy, managed to express a degradation more powerful than any bloody torture, enjoying sadistically with cutting up the pride, not the body. So when the monster, near the end, uses the bloody torture with the body, it's where the movie loses its distinct characteristic, and chooses to be cheap.In this manner, with the same bad irony, this movie walks. For instance; while (Nicki Aycox) as (Melissa) is charismatic good actress, the rest isn't (Kyle Schmid as Nik does his job loudly). At the restaurant's scene; the situation is intense, but the dialog is non-stop with supposedly funny, really annoying, remarks. (Rusty) talks in a rusty voice, yet imitates badly Scream's "Do you like scary movies ?!". Big part of the monster's power is in its obscurity, while – in this sequel – the camera shows many parts of his face over and over again; so with this abundance you'll ask why not showing the whole features then ?! The idea of hunting these kids, for breaking into a house, borrowing a car and cursing the drivers, is original, but the end is a (Duel – 1977)'s rip-off. While the end's explosion had to be big, the outcome was anything but big (the word is childish with a toy car !). The monster dies in explosion, then lives unharmed.. etc.There are some interesting points throughout the way : This is a girl-movie, yet with all the men whether weak or evil, the lesson of "don't mess with a lorry driver" is well educated, and sometimes being non-stop garrulous is a point of weakness. It's 60 % fine and 40 % idiot. As if there was a fine unique horror there, but the cheesiness of the V production interrupted !
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