Joy Ride Reviews

...boasts a number of genuinely exhilarating sequences and set-pieces.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Will convince you that you'd be better off taking the train.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

America's dark and lonely back roads are the prime location for stories about relentless, psychotic stalkers preying on the youth.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Nothing special -- it just devotedly does its job to give the audience a string of suspense scenarios.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

Maybe it's a wonderful inside joke - a suspenseless suspense film.

Full Review | Original Score: C

The popcorn thriller manages to keep the viewer's disbelief at bay, while offering a deceptively smooth ride through some frequently bumpy territory.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

It's a scary film; an atmospheric, unrelenting, character-rich thriller that includes one of the most jolting shock-moments I can remember.

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Things are pushed over the top rather successfully, but breaking momentum is a pretty big mistake for movie that wants to wow us with ruthless efficiency.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

It's what we don't see that terrifies us in Roadkill, a blistering good thriller that keeps us uneasy and perched on the edge of our seats.

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Well done thriller just when we need it most.

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A thriller driven by considerable suspense before taking a wrong exit somewhere near the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

This is a drive-in movie supreme, a suspense saga with several wicked shocks and at least as many hearty laughs.

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Paul Walker has all the acting ability of a length of pine board.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

...a galvanizing amusement-park ride that only occasionally steps over the bounds of common sense.

| Original Score: 7/10

You'll feel like you're an unwilling passenger along for a bumpy trip in John Dahl's road rage thriller Joy Ride -- Dahl dresses up this fuel-injected spectacle with silly-minded edge-of-your-seat fury

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

One of those rare movies that I know I shouldn't like, but... I cannot help but enjoy it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Premium entertainment of the genre variety.

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If you're looking to have your nerves fried and your pulse pounded, this is your ticket to ride.

| Original Score: 4.5/5

98 minutes of pure, unadulterated exhilaration.

| Original Score: 4/5

Watch the trailer, skip the movie

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4