ThiefHott Too much of everything

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Lauren Safford I know most remakes usually pale in comparison to the original, but this one wasn't bad at all. I don't really know so many people disliked this film. I thought it was a fun little B-movie, well worth a watch if you like these type of "run from killer" films. The movie obviously wasn't fantastic, I think they could have found better actors. But to complain about things not making sense or plot holes is silly, a movie is not meant for that, it's not meant for people who watch them to compare it to how things work in the real world. Movies are always just meant for enjoyment, and I enjoyed this film, to me, that's all that matters. If I cant enjoy something or get into it, I will not like it regardless if everything makes perfect sense and there are no plot holes.

cmovies-99674 PROS: The part of the film that had potential was the acting. The genuine fear that the two main actors showed was impeccable. As the movie progressed so did the acting. Through all the scenes you saw a different snapshot of how dynamic the acting was, from insanity to humor the whole movie was very capable. Another very good part of THE HITCHER was the action scenes. The whole movie was able to keep some sort of tension which was helpful. It also had a really nice idea that started well and ended well. To add on, then ending was very well crafted. It gave you exactly what you wanted, some sort of sigh of relief.CONS: The biggest con falls on the plot. The movie jumps around to many locations with little to no correlation. This makes it difficult to establish motive from the characters. One of the most important things in movies is cause and effect, and in THE HITCHER those two pieces rarely connected. To clarify, there were many good ideas, but they weren't put together in a logical way. The movie was all over the place. Another issue that I had was the way the movie was sold. It was said to be a big new "thriller," but the movie was by far a thriller. The film was just pure horror.www.chorror.com

Shilo January 20, 2007I never ever began to think that "The Hitcher" would ever be remade. Actually, hoped is a better word. The original film came out in 1986 and should have never seen the light of day. It was a reprehensible piece of violent and cruel trash that showcased brutality and violence with no purpose. A lot of films are being remade lately and I must be led to believe that the producers of this remake have to be really desperate if they are willing to look back on a picture that was truly one of the worst films of the 1980's.It's about a young man, Jim Halsey (Zachary Knighton) and his girlfriend, Grace Andrews (Sophia Bush) who are driving across the countryside for spring break. While driving, they see a man hitchhiking in the pouring rain and they speed off. Later at a gas station, Jim reluctantly agrees to give, John Ryder (Sean Bean) a lift. when the Hitcher becomes violent, they shove him out the door. Ryder begins tormenting the two kids and forces them to play a cat and mouse game of murder. when Jim and Grace are suspected of the murders Ryder is leaving behind, they make a run for it with the police chasing close behind while trying to figure out what Ryder wants from them.Remakes are starting to become the object of desire and I can see a lot of horror/thriller films getting a reboot, not that that is always a good thing and this film was one we did not need. The original film was about a young man who is chased all through the western countryside by a psychopathic serial killer with no motive, purpose or identity and that made the film sick in its portrayal of violence. The film's sadomasochistic theme between C. Thomas Howell and Rutger Hauer was disturbing enough but now Sean Bean steps into the role of Ryder and plays the same killer who is hell bent on murdering people for no reason. You would think a motive would finally be revealed but no, it's safer for the filmmakers to stick to the original film and on that note, this film is about as disgusting and meaningless as the original.Everything remains the same but they retool a few scenes, one of which I will get to after. If you have seen the original, you know which scene I'm talking about. After the opening credits , Jim and Grace are driving through the dark when they see Ryder in the middle of the road near a broken car. After giving a ride, he pulls a knife and becomes violent, sound familiar? After Ryder is pushed out, they continue driving when they see a station wagon with the Hitcher in the back. Again, sound familiar? They changed nothing with the picture. The only difference is that Sean Bean steps into the menacing shoes of John Ryder and he is more of a pain in the ass than Rutger Hauer was attempting to be terrifying. He remains largely unchanged and we are, once again, given a killer whose sole purpose is to murder innocent people for no reason. No motive, nothing. We were not even told where Ryder came from in the original and we are not told with this story either.As you expect, the rest of the story plays out like the original with non-stop mayhem with Ryder framing them and the cops being too stupid to figure out what's going on. I will say, it's less believable with Jim and Grace than it was with Jim and Nash, yet, the cops are hell bent on catching them. Now comes the sequence that truly shocked the hell out me in the original and left me feeling sick. In the original, Jennifer Jason Leigh is tied between two trucks and split into two parts and this time, it's Jim who is tied between the two trucks and Grace being terrified. I had to laugh for a second because when the cops show up, they still think Grace and Jim are the two killers, yet, he's tied between two trucks while Ryder sits in the cab looking like a bat out of hell. You can image what happens next and, yes, he is split in half. This time, they show the two pieces of his body dangling just to further the disgust factor.I was left really angry when Jennifer Jason Leigh was ripped in half in the original and I felt bad for the actress because she is very talented and she was subjected to meaningless torture. Sofia Bush is a talented actress but her role is limited here and I wonder why they didn't cut her in half? Mind you, this is Michael Bay who is producing here and maybe he thought the idea of cutting a woman in half was a bad idea? Who cares? In the end, this remake is an immortal piece of trash much like the original. It does the same thing over again to a lesser degree in of content but still stands out as a desperate attempt to revive a film that died a long time ago and that's a sad commentary when entertainment resorts to rebooting a film like "The Hitcher" for a young audience that isn't even old enough to see it and should never see either the original film or this remake.0/10

David Roggenkamp Two twenty-somethings decide to leave college for spring break; of all things it involves driving a muscle car. How exactly are these 'children' capable of getting a car which is nearly forty years prior and nearly a collector car? Regardless, they are well onto their way when they run across a man standing in the middle of the road; they nearly hit him and then decide to go about their business without offering assistance. They pull into a gas station and then the man from before appears – he managed to get a lift from a ing trucker. He asks for a ride from the kids and then all goes downhill from there – turns out he is a psychopath.The rest of the film is spent with the two protagonists narrowly avoiding runins with the psychopath. Eventually trying to help out more of the psycho's victims turns into a runin with the cops and they end up in jail; the psychopath promptly turns around and kills all of the cops. Now the state patrol is after them.The movie does not let up as a suspenseful thriller; nor does it stop with the near clashes between the protagonists, antagonist and police as they all get thrown together on a roller-coaster. The question is – who wins in the end?The movie is just plain sadistic, and at points like a horror movie. This really is a thriller at its finest and I do recommend it to others.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=10228).