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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Dave Meyers |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 19 January, 2007 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Universal Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adult Situations, Brief Nudity, Color, Crime Thriller, Disturbing, English, Feature, Gore, Graphic Violence, Gruesome, Horror, Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Menacing, Mind Games, Miscarriage of Justice, Movie, Ominous, Profanity, Serial Killers, Sexual Situations |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| UPC: | 025193327628 |
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Customer Reviews of The Hitcher (Widescreen Edition)
Underated ReMake It is simply stupid to hate a movie simply because it is a remake. That is the reason for the majority of bad reviews coming in on this movie. <
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>The Hitcher is a clever sculpted movie with great style and great screen prescence. The acting was somewhat lopsided I'll admit. Zachary Knighton pulled off his character well enough and Sophia Bush didn't do badly either but both of them were brushed aside by the mere presence of Sean Bean. He was brilliant! There really aren't too many more words to describe his work. <
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>His role as John Ryder was played perfectly, so deep and so real. He made a chilling villian, one that you can seriously hate and root for at the same time. He pulled off an American accent quite convincingly, and even better was his costume and hair. They were very well done. The entire set and scenery was well placed and very well shot. <
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>The horror was as horror should be, suspensful and gory but the blood was tastefully placed and not needlessly splattered all over the screen. The killings were done with such simplistic reality it was almost frightening. <
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>Overall the movie was a great one and definately deserves a spot in your movie collection. Sean Bean's acting is enough to merit that.
If you like blood and gore, see this film...
When I saw the previews I figured it would be a typical horror film but after finally seeing it, I still agreed.
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>This movie tells the story of two college teenagers on their way to spending spring break. That very night they run into a man at a gas station who says his name is John Ryder (Sean Bean, who plays the role very well) and needs a ride to the nearest motel. At first this seems like a harmless idea, but the two teenagers don't know what they're getting themselves into when they accept to give him the ride.
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>Anyway onto the review. The first thirty minutes are very good and creepy with everything making logical sense. After the half hour is over, everything goes out the window for gore, action, and cheap "BOO!" tactics which sometimes does work. Not only does Sean Bean's character seem to know where the two teenagers are all the time, he is always ready for them.
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>I would only recommend a rent on this one if you like the plot concept of the movie but I don't think its necessary at best.
Date movie Horror film
All the Platinum Dunes remakes are interchangeable. They look the same, act the same, and are all as equally useless. But with the second remake of The Hitch-Hiker you're left to ask, "Whose behind the wheel?" Scott Kosar (writer of previous remake dreck) got off at the last stop and music video director Dave Meyers seems to wander around like a brain damaged puppy. Thus this "reimagining" simply becomes a reflection of everything wrong with the Hollywood machine. The writer of the '86 remake, When A Stranger Calls, and Romeo Must Die take a run at the screenplay (structure, teen appeal, and action respectively) and come back with a by-the-numbers inoffensive snoozefest.
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>In the original you almost wonder how Rutger Hauer became so psychotic, here it's an afterthought. Sean Bean is left dialogueless to throw dirty looks at the camera the few times he's onscreen. Everything that made the original good from the bizarre sexual tension to the life & death challenges don't even come into play. The omnipotent and underwritten villian appears at will to kill, Nine Inch Nail's booming over slow-motion car wrecks, and vanish just as quickly. All the while you're left to suffer through chopless teen actors pretending to be in love, or terrorized, or fighting back. You don't buy it, and are more than happy to see them drawn & quartered (most of which is edited). Logic will kick in leaving you to ask, "Why pull a gun on a police officer when you're innocent? Why not shoot the chains off the truck that's about to rip him in half?", but when the film ends with Terminator music you realize how pointless it is to ask.
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>It's tragic that such a needless remake should focus so much on xenophobia, callousness, and automatism when that's exactly what it becomes. Platinum Dunes prove once again that there's a reason some films should not be remade.