He's back! Our favorite lovable serial killer trucker has decided to grace us again with his presence in this straight-to-DVD sequel to the widely popular original.
This time, Rusty Nails torments four young people on their way to Vegas. Melissa(Nicki Aycox), her fiancé Bobby (Nick Zano), Melissa's sister Kayla (Laura Jordan) and her online boyfriend Nik (Kyle Schmid) are innocently driving along when their car breaks down. They inadvertently visit the home of good ole RN, steal his car, and proceed to be hunted down by the maniac behind the wheel.
Take the name of the movie, add in the throaty voice of Rusty Nails, and those are the only two aspects from the original movie that made it to this lamer than lame sequel. There's no real character buildup, no superb acting from the likes of Paul Walker, Steve Zahn or Leelee Sobieski...instead we have four stock characters who have no emotional value and who couldn't act their way out of a paper bag. The thrills are replaced with over-the-top gore, and instead of making the semi truck seem like the villain like they did so wonderfully in the first, it's just another prop used by the director to try to make his lame point across. What the point is I haven't the foggiest, but still it minimizes the importance of the semi truck.
This time, Rusty Nails torments four young people on their way to Vegas. Melissa(Nicki Aycox), her fiancé Bobby (Nick Zano), Melissa's sister Kayla (Laura Jordan) and her online boyfriend Nik (Kyle Schmid) are innocently driving along when their car breaks down. They inadvertently visit the home of good ole RN, steal his car, and proceed to be hunted down by the maniac behind the wheel.
Take the name of the movie, add in the throaty voice of Rusty Nails, and those are the only two aspects from the original movie that made it to this lamer than lame sequel. There's no real character buildup, no superb acting from the likes of Paul Walker, Steve Zahn or Leelee Sobieski...instead we have four stock characters who have no emotional value and who couldn't act their way out of a paper bag. The thrills are replaced with over-the-top gore, and instead of making the semi truck seem like the villain like they did so wonderfully in the first, it's just another prop used by the director to try to make his lame point across. What the point is I haven't the foggiest, but still it minimizes the importance of the semi truck.