I could forgive the painfully slow start to this movie; even a lame attempt to explore the wafer thin characters could be perceived as a form of tortuous development. The tone of the movie is intended to be disturbing, it's been a while since I've seen such gratuitous cruelty, and even though it's pointless, it is after all a horror flick. What I will remember this movie for is it's extraordinary plot inconsistencies. Were it not for them, I think this film could be worth as much as 2, or (at a push) the dizzy heights of 3 stars.
SPOILERS BELOW
There are so many holes in this plot it's hard to know where to start. For example, two girls are in the truck being chased by Mick a long way back in another truck. Unfortunately they come to a cliff edge. So, think about it - what would YOU do? Should they switch off lights and try and sneak by him? Or maybe just turn left/right and drive like hell. No - of course - it's so obvious now, they should push the only means of escape they have over the cliff and then hide EXACTLY where they know Mick will pull up. As soon as Mick is gone, in an outrageous abuse of cinematographic licence, they decide to go back to his house of horror to look for ANOTHER truck!!!!! Possibly a different model, maybe they were looking for something in red? I cannot even begin to imagine ANYOBODY, no matter how hard of thinking acting in this way.
So Kristy goes back to find a working car, (why the hell would she think any of them are working, Mick has just destroyed their car?!) Anyway, whilst running for her life she takes a break from her furious and stressful searching to watch some movies, check though some old photos and have a general mooch around for the benefit of the audience. Meanwhile, Mick is making his way back home and into the garage where he waits in the back seat of the only car out of a dozen or so that he knows Kristy's going to try to start. Clever bugger, as they say in Australia.
Ultimately it could be argued that the girls acted in this irrational manner purely because they were under such stress. But in this "true" story nobody has any idea how or what the girls did. Even the unreliable witness hasn't a clue. So writer/director are totally responsible for this infantile fabrication!
Do yourself a favour and watch the grass grow, learn a language, start a religion, but do not waste 100 valuable minutes of your life trawling though this pap.
SPOILERS BELOW
There are so many holes in this plot it's hard to know where to start. For example, two girls are in the truck being chased by Mick a long way back in another truck. Unfortunately they come to a cliff edge. So, think about it - what would YOU do? Should they switch off lights and try and sneak by him? Or maybe just turn left/right and drive like hell. No - of course - it's so obvious now, they should push the only means of escape they have over the cliff and then hide EXACTLY where they know Mick will pull up. As soon as Mick is gone, in an outrageous abuse of cinematographic licence, they decide to go back to his house of horror to look for ANOTHER truck!!!!! Possibly a different model, maybe they were looking for something in red? I cannot even begin to imagine ANYOBODY, no matter how hard of thinking acting in this way.
So Kristy goes back to find a working car, (why the hell would she think any of them are working, Mick has just destroyed their car?!) Anyway, whilst running for her life she takes a break from her furious and stressful searching to watch some movies, check though some old photos and have a general mooch around for the benefit of the audience. Meanwhile, Mick is making his way back home and into the garage where he waits in the back seat of the only car out of a dozen or so that he knows Kristy's going to try to start. Clever bugger, as they say in Australia.
Ultimately it could be argued that the girls acted in this irrational manner purely because they were under such stress. But in this "true" story nobody has any idea how or what the girls did. Even the unreliable witness hasn't a clue. So writer/director are totally responsible for this infantile fabrication!
Do yourself a favour and watch the grass grow, learn a language, start a religion, but do not waste 100 valuable minutes of your life trawling though this pap.