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Exceptionally Good Movie!
Wow! I was very impressed and surprised by this one! I give the special features 10 STARS! <
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>I have wanted to see this one since it was advertised on television many years ago. For some reason, I just never got around to it. I rarely see movies in the theater anymore, and I just never got around to seeing this on DVD. Recently, I went on a budgetary required fast of DVD purchases. I just recently joined an on-line DVD rental service, and this has been the best decision I've made, since deciding to marry my beautiful wife! <
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>I am a big Paul Walker fan. He really is a good looking actor, and his acting skills match his good looks. He's a man's man, with a super smooth style. I have a feeling he's a lady's man, in real life! And Steve Zahn is hilarious! I think both of these parts were perfectly filled by these two young actors. Also outstanding is the young female part, played flawlessly by Leelee Sobieski. <
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>I sometimes don't get a chance to view all the special features on a DVD, especially when I rent it, but thankfully I decided to try to view all of the special features on this one. And I'm so glad that I did! This DVD included three or four extended and alternate endings. I have a feeling many movies film extended and alternate endings, but choose not to include them on the DVD. I say shame on them. I really appreciate when the company chooses to include it, as, in my opinion, it adds tremendously to the viewing pleasure. <
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>There are also three commentaries for the entire movie. I listened to the one from Steve Zahn, which was hilarious! He's a really funny guy. <
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>The movie was very well done. The cinematography was excellent! I have a component Video set up on my HD TV, and the colors were brilliant and the scenery was beautiful throughout. In particular, the colors of the Police cars and the Motel lights throughout was brilliantly done. I like how this movie featured a part of America rarely seen in Hollywood films. <
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>A great October movie to rent or purchase! <
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>MC White said: Top notch entertainment!!! Highly recommended!!!

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A Surprisingly Very Good Film!
"Joyride" is a much better film than I had first expected. The film centers around two young brothers on their way to New Jersey. The brothers, Fuller Thomas (Steve Zahn) and Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker) are on a long journey; and to break away from their boredom they both decide to fool around with their CB radio. Imitating a woman named Candy Cane, they contact a truck driver whom they both tease. Moreover, they also set up a date with this trucker at a scheduled place: Not thinking what they are doing will have serious consequences later in the film. While messing with this unknown truck driver they wind up encountering more than just a random talker on the other end. The trucker has a serious mental problem. <
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>Moreover, although they do not know who this truck driver is, he knows who they are. Therefore, you have a suspenseful chase with an unknown killer who does not find the prank these two brothers pulled on him to be very funny. Wherever they go, the trucker is right behind them. However, as the highway's are full of other truckers, they have to take more extreme caution as they don't know who or what they are dealing with. Eventually, they realize their mistake in that the trucker they pulled the prank on is very demented: And he is out for revenge. This is one joke that takes on a life-or-death meaning. The film is very good and suspenseful. I highly recommend the film, as it is full of suspense and thrill's that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Recommended.

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"Duel" For The Millenium
In "Joy Ride", the Director John Dahl (Last Seduction, Red Rock West, Rounders)pounds you right from the beginning and never lets up. <
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>It's "Duel" updated for the millenium and for a contemporary audience. <
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>Two brothers, Paul Walker (Fast and The Furious) and Steve Zahn (Shattered Glass) take a road trip to pick up Walker's college girlfriend (Leelee Sobieski). <
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>Using a CB radio, they play a practical joke on a trucker who turns out to be the biggest movie big rig psycho since Rutger Hauer planted a finger in C.Thomas Howell's french fries. <
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>What the trucker, whose CB handle is "Rusty Nail" does to exact revenge keeps the audience on edge for the film's 97 minutes. <
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>(Note: one of the sequences in the chillingly directed and edited climax cribs gleefully from "Silence of the Lambs") <
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>Dahl pulls of the the difficult challenge of blending scares with a few laughs with little effort..he's a wildly talented director with a taste for hip, off beat material. <
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>Dahl directs from a script by JJ Abrams ("Lost") and Clay Tarver <
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>The voice of "Rusty Nail" is supplied by the great Ted Levine. <
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>Note: not long before "Joy Ride" began shooting, the studio decided it wanted a different ending, supposedly a few alternate endings were shot, one of which, running 29 minutes, is included on the DVD which also includes Eric Roberts vocal audition as Rusty Nail...Roberts obviously lost the gig to Levine.