Excellent, a Must See

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Two young women who embark on a road trip find themselves in considerable jeopardy from a vicious mentally challenged mutant killer and his equally ferocious father after their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Director Marc Ickx, who also co-wrote the hackneyed and uninspired script with Liam Bradley, relates the derivative and grindingly predictable meandering narrative at a painfully sluggish pace, hurts the viewer's ears with plenty of rusty tin-eared dialogue (sample line: "Is this the road trip from hell or what?"), and, worst of all, fails to generate any much-needed suspense or creepy atmosphere. The cruddy dubbing, an excruciatingly drawn-out and uneventful first forty minutes, and the fact that the main character of Rebecca comes across as an insufferably shrill, whiny, and thoroughly unappealing bitch certainly doesn't help matters any. The acting virtually without exception is pretty bad, although Bob Dougherty tries hard as the psycho's angry pop and Marcel Romeijn makes for a fairly grotesque subhuman fiend. Things perk up a tad in the second half, with some nice'n'nasty gore and a reasonably cool geekoid wackjob, but that's still not enough to compensate for the general tedium, hopelessly shopworn and threadbare screenplay, and crippling dearth of originality. A real clunker.

Well...let's see. A lesbian couple have engine trouble and end up being stalked by a crazy retard named Junior (well...I guess he's got a real name, ah whatever). There's plenty bad and a bit good about this movie.What sucks:1) Slow pace. We have a bit too much of this scene where one girl's alone and her car's shaking. It's supposed to be suspenseful, and it does make ya wonder. But then it loses its monentum by going on too long.2) Apparently, they're supposed to be in Europe since the money is Euros, and they seem to have some kind of accent. But the gas station workers are clearly American. WTF?! And the girls go in and out of their accents. And the car ain't European, the steering wheel's on the right side. WHERE ARE THEY?!?! 3) Junior's daddy's acting wanes in some spots. He goes a bit over the top.4) Junior doesn't look quite as inhuman as the cover suggests.5) It's from 2002, but the quality seems aged, like 80s or something. I guess that's not really bad, but it suggests cheap budget.6) Ending kinda sucks.What rocks: 1) Cool setting. Plenty of outta the way areas with abandoned buildings in the background. Def. adds to it.2) Junior's weapon of choice is this cool blade. Some kidna scythe.3) Once the girl gets taken to Junior's humble abode, things get a little more interesting. It's all crazy and disturbing and crap.It's alright for some mediocre horror. If ya like slashers, it'll give ya some fun. But it ain't no classic.

JUNIOR, aka ENGINE TROUBLE, is one bad movie. It looks like members of a film crew pulled their tiny resources together and made this micro movie during a break of the other bigger budgeted film and shot this one in a few days. There's no story and there's almost no semblance of any pre-production: everything was shot in one area and the cast is populated by 5 or 6 actors, all of whom are awful and show very little experience in acting or anything else.A lot of people say that horror is better imagined than showed. Well, they haven't seen the moment when the unseen killer is on top of the roof of the car and torments the woman inside. In this case, even though the "filmmakers" might say they wanted to create horror in people's mind with this tedious scene, I 'm more inclined to believe that they shot it this way because it was cheap. It's a fine line between astute direction and penny-pinching film-making.The really funny thing about it is that it's an exploitation film wannabe that doesn't really exploit anything.But as bad as JUNIOR is, and it is bad, I've seen much worse than this. Like SHREDDER.

this movie is full on unadulterated crap. never before have i witnessed such misery lows of a movie. me and my brother saw this movie on the shelf in blockbuster, and checked it out. got out to the car and discovered we had another movie. unfortunately, we took the wrong one back. what we ended up with was this pitiful excuse for anything. movies just don't get any worse. all the way from the beginning it was crap. the acrobatics of the villain didn't help either. too funny. the hysterics of the woman honking on her car horn while the car is shaking was just too much. a definite must see ( if you want to die laughing that is). this thing says i gotta write 10 lines, but this movie cannot fill 10 lines. a true travesty to the film community.