Joy Ride

2001
R
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

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Steve Zahn, Leelee Sobieski, and Paul Walker in Joy Ride (2001)

Theatrical Trailer from 20th Century Fox

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Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychopathic killer.Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychopathic killer.Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychopathic killer.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

78K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,558

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 5 nominations

Trivia
For the nighttime chase scenes, the headlights of the trucks and cars were replaced by aircraft landing lights for extra brightness. This helped to bring down the exposure enough to keep the sky consistently black even at early dawn.

Goofs
As Lewis, Venna, and Fuller are driving out to the corn field, Fuller is wearing a blue shirt with a brown jacket. While running through the corn field away from Rusty Nail, however, Fuller is wearing a cop's hat and cop's jacket, obviously from the original ending.

Quotes
Rusty Nail: [34:11] Apologize.
Fuller Thomas: No. Listen, you sick fuck, you pathetic, lonely, walkie-talkie, freak-show motherfucker. You're not getting anything from me. Know why? Because I have something that's more powerful than your psychosis. It's called a volume knob, and the only thing I have to do to make you go away is to turn it counterclockwise. You got that? You copy that?
Rusty Nail: You know, Black Sheep, you really ought to get that fixed.
Fuller Thomas: Get what fixed?
Rusty Nail: Your taillight.

Alternate versions
DVD and Blu-ray include 29 minutes long original ending and three alternate endings.

Connections
Edited into Joy Ride: Alternate Ending 1 (2002)

Soundtracks
You're Mine
Written by Ken Cooper and Marti Frederiksen
Performed by Sinomatic
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By arrangement with Warner Special Products

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Review

Featured review

6/10

Prank gone wrong thriller

Relatively a lesser known film which apparently spawned a few straight to video sequels. Joy Ride is a decent thriller with some suspense, although quite predictable at times.

The film moves at a reasonable pace and doesn't drag on too much.

The violence isn't gory or graphic and is quite tame for a film of this genre.

One of the highlights of the film is most definitely the character of the villain trucker "Rusty Nail". Although we don't necessarily see him much (only briefly near the end and for a quick few seconds), it's his voice which strengthens the performance.

Questionable scenes are regarding Rusty are how well he knew the friends. How he knew the roommate and was able to kidnap her. How he was able to pick back up the radio device and put it in their trunk. Nothing was exactly explained in the end.

Paul Walker and Steve Zahn bring in solid performance showing a fun level of chemistry.

Overall Joy Ride is a solid early 2000's teen/young adult type mystery thriller type. Yet expected a little more. It is relatively simplistic and somewhat forgettable.