A couple from college get caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a psychopathic hitchhiker and the police after witnessing a murder and being framed.A couple from college get caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a psychopathic hitchhiker and the police after witnessing a murder and being framed.A couple from college get caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a psychopathic hitchhiker and the police after witnessing a murder and being framed.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
- Transport Guard #2
- (as Mike Fisher)
- Transport Guard #1
- (as Joseph Michael Self)
- Ryder's Guard
- (as Richard Hancock)
- Officer #1
- (as Jesse DeLuna)
- Helicopter Co-Pilot
- (as Kurt Soderling)
Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsWhen Jim and Grace break into the motel room, they enter room 12. However, when Grace comes out of the room, it is room 11. This is result of a deleted scene that can be viewed on the DVD, where Grace goes into the room 11, thru the connecting door, to find a couple murdered.
- Quotes
John Ryder: [points to Grace] She's a good looking girl... how long have you been fucking her?
Jim Halsey: What?
John Ryder: It's a simple question.
Jim Halsey: [Jim see's John's wedding ring] How long have you been fucking your wife?
John Ryder: I'm not married.
Jim Halsey: Then what's with the ring?
John Ryder: Makes strangers think I'm trustworthy.
Jim Halsey: Are you?
John Ryder: No...
[John destroys Jim's cell phone]
- Alternate versionsGerman theatrical version was cut by the distributor to secure a 'Not under 16' rating. Uncut version is available on DVD and was rated "Not under 18".
- ConnectionsEdited into Honest Trailers: Lord of the Rings (2012)
- SoundtracksMove Along
Written by Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler
Performed by The All-American Rejects (as The All American Rejects)
Courtesy of Interscope Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
The story has been often used but the immediate source for this telling is a film that starred Rutger Hauer as the title character. Hauer's John Rider managed to walk the fine line between insanity and reason as he upped the ante in everything he did in some twisted game that only he understood. In this remake Sean Bean is the psycho on the loose and its a wonderfully acted portrayal of a man on the edge of sanity. Unfortunately he's not very scary. Bean is somehow much to urbane to be frightening even as he's doing terrible things to people. He's simply to charming.
Whats worse are the people who pick him up. I hated them from the start and wanted some one-anyone-to kill them simply so I didn't have to spend anytime with them. Stupid and vacant they seemed less like people than the victims Bean kills. C Thomas Howell in the original may have been a bit of a twit, but I really felt sorry for him as Hauer turned his life into a living hell, here I felt they had it coming.
Different enough from the original to make comparisons pointless this film isn't very good on any level and really has no reason to be seen except for Sean Bean good, but nonthreatening villain
- dbborroughs
- Feb 10, 2007
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Carretera al infierno
- Filming locations
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $16,472,961
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,234,000
- Jan 21, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $25,399,945
- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1