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[It's] cheerfully in touch with its own brainlessness.
Don't even think of stopping.
... about all the movie is effective at is insulting the audience.
[Grace, played by Sophia Bush] can't go six blocks without having to pee, and we're supposed to believe she knows how to fire a Colt 45 and a shotgun?
That [original] film was intellectually engaging as well as tangibly creepy, while the new remake is just plain bad, and boring to boot.
There's no snowball effect and the characters are too weakly drawn and acted for there to be any psychological dimension to their interaction. The ending of the first movie was unsettling; the conclusion of this one is unsatisfying.
Very bloody remake of Rutger Hauer cult favorite.
The new version is an adequate technical exercise ... but the attempts at 'originality' undermine whatever meager integrity the original possessed.
For my taste, it was better off left dead, roadkill on the cinematic highway.
While this new Hitcher has its moments, it just doesn't make for as scary or interesting a ride as its predecessor.
Enjoyably trashy remake with a suitably creepy performance from Sean Bean, even if it's not quite on the level of Rutger Hauer's original.
Tense, brooding, scary -- there are plenty of words to describe 1986's superior B-movie The Hitcher. None, however, apply to this remake.
As is usually the case with remakes of this sort, instead of soul, point of view, or guts, the movie features a story as flat as its open surroundings, transparent like soda water, with as many holes as bubbles, and a few slices of improbability for flavo
The first few minutes of Dave Meyers's remake of The Hitcher are desperately tense.
A depressingly formulaic reworking of a unique cult favourite that should have been left well alone. Stick with Rutger.
Bloated, boring and over-explained.
A guilty pleasure -- but only if you like your action outlandish, your continuity challenged and your guts and gore splattered all over the screen.
If you can't improve upon your original in some small but interesting way, then you're simply churning out assembly-line product for a gradually more disinterested fan-base.
If only they had a good story and enough solid thrills to sustain it for longer than a half-hour.
As for the DVD, I must say the producers of the product made sure it was fully loaded.
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