REVIEW

Joy Ride

a. So there's this guy named Lewis who is secretly in love with a girl from his past called Venna. She suggests that he comes to visit her by driving to her college and picking her up then driving back to their home town. Unfortunatly on his way to pick Venna up, Lewis's brother Fuller gets in jail and needs to be bailed out. Lewis goes to help him and together they start driving to get Venna. Along the way Fuller gets a CB radio installed and they begin to have some fun messing with the truckers that use the CB radio. They pretend to be a girl and get the attention of one particular trucker "rusty nail". They convince rusty nail to meet the fake girl at their hotel in the next room over. From then on its suspense and thrills as rusty nail tries to teach the 2 boys a lesson in any way he can. The only way they can correspond was from a CB radio.
b. I liked the story line, it was intreguing and it had the right characters to make it intersting. They picked people that complimented each other nicely and it was creative and full of suspense. The plot also was intersting because it could theoretically happen and its everyones worst nightmere so all the action keeps you on edge.
c. The theme of the movie I think was to watch who you mess with because things have a way of biteing you in the back if you are not careful. This is proved by the fact that what the boys thought was innocent fun turned into a run for their lives.
d. The main characters were Fuller, Lewis, Venna, and rusty nail. Fuller was the funny jokester brother who created trouble everywhere he went. Lewis was the put together guy who cared about Venna and was the brains of the opperation. Venna was the "pretty" girl who was smart but usually ended up in the damsal in distress position. Rusty nail was the elusive mysterious trucker who had a really creepy voice and was really creative when it came to ways of torturing the other 3 main characters.
e. The directors style was dark and simplistic. Everything was pretty simple and just like real life like the truck stops they stoped at were all legit and it seemed like they actually could be making a cross country journey.


"I'm not going anywhere until someone tells me why I should be afraid of a radio"
-Venna