I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This is underrated gem an underrated sequel and that not a bad one, and that a good one. I enjoy it, I never hated the film like fans of the first film does. Kari Wuhrer was a good scared girl a victim who turns in to heroine on the end of the film and stops the killer. C. Thomas Howell is back as Jim Halsey and he does a good job, I love his character. He saved young boy's life from a maniac and he saved Maggie from been killed. I like this film a lot, doesn't love it, like I love the first one but I like it a lot. It is so bad that is good.The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003) is a good fun sequel not better than the first original movie, or the greatest one, but a good one. C. Thomas Howell returns as Jim Halsey from the first film and he is respectfully in the film and he is for the rest 40 minutes in the film and he does his job well. His character is respectfully treated in this movie from a scared boy to a cop who saves people. The first movie is a cult classic action film while this movie in my opinion is a step down from the first film but a good sequel and I don't think it is horrible. I understand why fans of the first 1986 film hate this sequel and are major disappointed. That is because this film killed off the two main characters from the first film. That was a bad idea and they shouldn't have done that. Jake Busey is a terrible psychotic hitchhiker he is no Rutger Hauer. John Ryder was a stone cold psychopathic maniac killer on a highway, while Jack is a sociopathic killer and he is no John Ryder I understand that. His character is not stone cold, he talks way too much and he is goofing around, that hurts the film. Eric Red should have return for the script, in stead it was written by three people. The film faithfully follows the first film and does not copy the formula from the original film or copy the cult classic film at all, I like that. You have a truck been chased by an airplane and a great showdown between the heroine and the villain. A bad-ass scene I like that scene in the film so much. They are low budget but a good practical effects, the film doesn't copy the original end of the film and you have a huge explosion on the end. Jack is not John Ryder's son sorry fans, and he is not different or better than Rutger Hauer, but a lame version of a hitchhiker killer.I really wish to get this film on DVD, I will make a copy of this film for myself. I have two version of the first Hitcher on DVD and I love it. I saw this film on VHS tape in the video store many years ago when I was in high school and this movie got me in to "The Hitcher" movies.6/10 not a bad horrible sequel like everyone says, it is a good film. I love The Hitcher 1 and like The Hitcher 2. I like, like a lot this sequel, Kari Wuhrer is still a good heroine to me. The film is Rated R and still try's to be a horror movie with suspense, it is blood and nasty horror film tough. :P

Trying to get his life back on track, a troubled policeman and his girlfriend's cross-country trip to visit a friend results in another case of mistaken identity when another hitchhiker starts a cycle of violence involving him again and must try to help her stop him.This one wasn't all that bad and really had a lot of great parts to it. What really tends to make this one work is the call-backs to the original to make it seem like it's starting up all over again, from the opening rescue attempt that turns on his relationship found there and the different arguments they have at the beginning to show how he's still affected by it all, along with the actual reasoning for his trip to see his friend which manages to get them caught up in the whole scenario all over again. As the freak-out in the car after initially picking him up signifies, there's a subtle hint here about the returning sense of duty and action that are lifted from this one running out that kind of premise here again which manages to then follow through with the film's best elements in the continuous action throughout here. This one has a ton of high-quality scenes here from the encounter with the trucker that's a fun shoot-out, the car-chase through the desert and the big shootout at the ranch that's quite fun with cooperative police believing them but are forced into action with his clever trap to encourage them to go after the couple and continue the shootout, resulting in a fine escape attempt. Even more fun comes from the rather exciting and entertaining stalking attempts throughout the second half, which come from the escape attempt in the water-tower and eventual escape from the desert compound and leads into the series of cat-and- mouse stalking throughout the desert highway here, culminating with the utterly thrilling chase with the police where he's in the truck and she's commandeering the plane alongside which comes up with a spectacular finale that's bloody, action-packed and really makes for a grand time here. Combined with the bloody gore and kills here, these here are all more than enough to hold this up as a fine sequel with only a few small flaws. The biggest issue here is the fact that this one does tend to feel a lot more contrived here in merely bringing up the same situations as before without really being all that different, as this one tends to put them together once again out on a lonely road and stalked by a deranged hitchhiker who frames him for his rampage here without a whole lot of reasoning here simply to play off the paranoia of it happening again. This really could've done a lot of good here with the uncertainly of it happening again as he's wallowing in the paranoia of it all by thinking it rather than happening and then it turns out he's right all-along and rely on his past experiences to help them out, but the way this goes about simply repeating it doesn't off up much chance of sticking out all that much. Otherwise, this one wasn't all that bad and had some good parts to it.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

The Hitcher 2 is the sequel to the hit 1986 original 'The Hitcher' where a young man Jim (C. Thomas Howell) picked up a hitchhiker who turned out to be psychotic. Part 2 is about the main character from the first (again played by Howell) going back to the same area where the events from the first took place in an attempt to move on from his trauma. He takes his girlfriend (Kari Wuhrer) with him on the trip where, once again, a hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be psychotic.When I picked this up, I was excited to see Howell reprise the role he had from the first. I was disappointed however when he was killed off in the first half hour. This movie is really about his girlfriend trying to fight off and kill the man (Jake Busey) who murdered Jim. Kari Wuhrer did a good job in the lead, but the character makes so many bad decisions throughout the movie all you can do is laugh at her.She picks up almost all of the weapons Busey uses to kill the cops and townsfolk which makes her the prime suspect. After a while, it got really tedious to watch her make the same mistakes over and over again. Yes, it happened in the original film, but it was really laughable in this one. Busey played a good "psycho", but wasn't as convincing as Rutger Hauer from the first.The ending leaves us hanging as we never really find out what his motive behind the killings are. Was he the son of the original Hitcher or was he a reincarnation of the first Hitcher? We never find out. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone except maybe horror completests. The first half is pretty good, but it falls apart from the middle right through to the end.4/10

the main problem i found with this movie is it is not original,whereas the first one was.there is lots of action and some excitement and a pretty high body count,but there is very little in the way of gore.in my mind ,most of the kills were lame.i like the fact that the heroine is a woman,and she a pretty strong character.the movie felt much liter in tone the the first one.it was sort of missing that scenes of foreboding.also,there are not any real scenes of peril or suspense.i do think the movie was entertaining,and the villain was not a bad character,although it would be hard to beat Rutger Hauer"s portrayal of the psycho in the fist movie.when all is said and done,i'd have to give "The Hitcher 2" 7/10