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**SPOILERS**This movie sucked. There are so many positive reviews that I expected to like it despite the low IMDb rating of 4.7.After a night of drinking, Mary (Laura Breckenridge) unknowingly runs over Timothy Esmer (Kevin Corrigan) in her Jeep. When she gets home, she sees the Esmer stuck to the front of her car and out of fear for the repercussions she tries to cover it up. Mary is painted as the bad guy. You kind of feel sorry for her even; though she runs over a guy while she's drunk, and tries to cover it up instead of manning up and taking responsibility. She tells Rick (Christopher Shand), her boyfriend, and they begin to concoct a plan to cover up her crime. Unfortunately, the best idea they can come up with is to just ignore it and hope it just goes away.She drives Esmer out to the woods to dispose of, but he's still alive and seeks vengeance. After 25 minutes of Mary trying to come to terms with her questionable actions, Esmer comes back and starts trolling her. He kills Rick, and then he stabs Mary a few times in her garage before tying her to the front of her own Jeep and going on a joy ride. Who am I supposed to be rooting for here?After the joyride, Esmer takes her back to his own house, killing a gas station attendant on the way. Then he kills his wife when she tries to set Mary free. Esmer then drives Mary out to the woods to bury her alive, but Mary blinds him and knocks him out before escaping and driving away in her car.When Esmer miraculously reappears out of thin air on the road a few miles ahead (literally one minute later), she runs over him (again) in her Jeep. The next morning she drives to a body shop and asks a mechanic to fix her car, whereupon they find the mangled body of Esmer stuck to the bottom of her Jeep and she gets arrested.Here's how that situation would play out. The police would investigate and find the body of Esmer's Wife at his house, with Esmer's fingerprints on the murder weapon. There would be CCTV footage from the gas station showing him killing the attendant while she was strapped to the car. She'll be able to tell them where Rick's body is, and with the evidence stacked towards Esmer, she'll probably get off scot-free!Esmer apparently does all this because he's bipolar which (according to the writers of this straight to video movie) means he can be a nice as pie teacher who sings nursery rhymes with young kids one minute, and a psychopathic killer the next!I have no idea why this movie is rated an 18. I was promised gore.. There's no gore. A bit of blood thrown about the place and an eye stabbing does not equal gore. Even when he kills his wife, you don't see it. The killing is off camera and then it cuts to his missus with a set of sheers stuck in her spine! And the blood dripping out of the phone... That's a face palm right there. There was no reason for it at all and only served to make the movie even more stupid.The characters aren't compelling, it's not clear who the antagonist is supposed to be, and there are so many plot holes you can see right through it. In short, it has none of the qualities that make a good movie.The action sequences are dull; and the quick changing, unconventional camera angles are disorienting. You'd expect more from a $3.5m budget, and I wonder what that budget actually went on because the cameras used were obviously not very good, and there aren't many locations used. A house, a body shop, and the woods. The images are grainy and lacklustre, as if the entire movie was filmed with a Go Pro! There's no colour in any of the scenes.There are many other movies that had a smaller budget to work with and look many times better than Hit & Run. Rob Zombies: Halloween for instance had less than 10% of the budget this movie had and looks much better. Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson had less than that and looks even better! Paranormal Activity looks better than this and Paranormal Activity's budget was less than $20k!If you really need to watch it, then watch it. But I personally wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone.1 K out of 10.

When Mary Murdock gets home from a rocking party at the local shin-ding or roadside type of bar, she finds a man dangling from her front bumper. So starts the urban legend, with some twists added to the myth. The man is not dead and tries to attack her so she kills him. Then to hide the crime, she buries him in the woods but he don't like that and comes back to teach her a lesson. There are some leaps in logic and time, and some bizarre things are left unexplained. Often, you're not sure if some stuff is real or dream, but I found that refreshing to my mind. It's one of those movies where you just don't mind little inconsistencies, you can still enjoy the thrill of the chase like it's some kind of nightmare that's unfolding. In the end, Mary gets a surprise of her own.

*spoilers* When Mary buried him it looked like Emser was dead. She did whack him like 5 times with the golf club in the head and he was already close to dying on the front of the car anyways. But she didn't take his pulse or anything like that after. So I was not totally sure if he was really dead, or just like in a coma or passed out. When he comes back from the woods he looks like more than just a guy who was buried alive. He looks like a zombie or the living dead. I'm thinking he was pumped up on adrenaline or he was superhuman because he was like nearly indestructible. I'm not sure if he's really dead at the end or not. It was way better than I expected and actually had a good horror action sequence packed in there, but I wish it was more clear if he was actually dead or just totally bashed up.

My review. "roller-coaster" is the song playing at the opening before the girl Mary gets in her car and slides off the road. And at the end I realized this was probably appropriate choice. The whole thing is a roller-coaster through Mary's descent to insanity I think. After she hits a sicko dude on the road (Hello!? Drunk driving anyone??), crazy chick doesn't know it but she brought the guy back stuck on her bumper. She finds him in the garage bleeding to death. She try to help him but he doesn't want help. He wants to kill her because he's all bloody and screwed up. So Mary knock him down with golf clubs and then she bury him (digging with a Frisbee!! very funny) and when he survives of course he's angry and wants payback. So she's got to kill the dude again or be killed. She tries to cover up the whole accident with help of her moron boyfriend who had me cackling. But dead teacher ain't happy and comes back to play cat and mouse with drunk driver girl. He ties her on the bumper (with Christmas lights no less), so she gets to feel what it's like on a roller-coaster drive. I don't want to spoil it but only one can live and the other will probably be in big trouble. (hit and run) 6/10