To me, this movie is perfection.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Blistering performances.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Rating this film was difficult. On one hand it was exciting and intense. On the other hand it has some pretty glaring plot holes. Whilst transporting a car from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey (C Thomas Howell) picks up a hitchhiker named John Ryder (Rutger Hauer) in Texas. Ryder is strange and evasive to most of Jim's attempts to make conversation until Ryder states his intention to murder him. Jim kicks Ryder out of the car and speeds away, thinking he has lost him. That is until Ryder finds him again and frames Jim for the murders. Jim is arrested and eventually escapes into the Texas landscape. Along the way Jim meets a young waitress named Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh) as the two of them are now essentially on the run from the law. Ryder finds the two of them at seemingly every turn as a game of cat and mouse ensues. A good premise which almost makes a good movie. Key word: Almost. As I already mentioned the biggest problems with the movie are the plot holes. First of all Jim makes some pretty dumb decisions. There's a scene where after he's booked in a holding cell, Ryder (supposedly and off camera) kills all the cops in the station. Somehow Jim sleeps through the shootout and when he finds the carnage he steals a gun and escapes. The problem I have with this scene is just that it would make more sense for Jim to go back to his holding cell so the cops would see that he's not the murderer. And from there he just makes himself look more and more guilty. When two policemen track him down he holds them up at gunpoint. Jim does this a few more times throughout the movie. The other big glaring plot hole is the way that Ryder somehow knows exactly where Jim is going to be. I get that he's tracking him down constantly and that it's supposed to be suspenseful, but it's just kind of distracting. If Ryder is always tracking Jim down then why doesn't he just kill him then and there. He kills a countless number of other people throughout the film so why is he always leaving Jim alive just so he can find him again. I guess it's a way to keep the cops off his back but it still doesn't really hold up. The bottom line is that if you can look past these things than you'll probably like the movie just fine as it is competently made and suspenseful.

First,let me say this. C.Thomas Howell's acting was horrible. In a movie there is supposed to be a character you care about. Real quick I discovered that I didn't care if he lived or died. I didn't care about Nash either. Secondly,it seems like everyone in this movie,with the exception of John Ryder is stupid. The kid can't manage to find the right words to tell the cops what's going on? He mumbles a sentence here and there to try to explain the situation but that's about it. The police just stand there while the girl is tied to the truck. No one even tries to sneak over and untie her before she is torn in half. Oh and NOBODY has any ability shoot and hit their target,except of course,the bad guy.Over all,I think it was a terrible movie. I watched it alone. I wish I would have watched it with someone else,though. Not because I was scared,but because it would have been fun to laugh at it and make fun of it.

Dear Quentin Tarantino,I know it will never happen. But I urge you to remake The Hitcher. It would be amazing. The film has all the elements that you could expand upon. A young man driving across the country. We get the beautiful long shots of the highways. He drinks coffee from a flask. Must be cozy driving early in the morning across a deserted highway and drinking coffee. Of course, then it all falls apart when he meets this serial killing hitcher and has to fight him off. The film turns into a typical genre flick.But things pick up again when he meets a cool and smart waitress (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Their exchanges after she makes him a burger and fries are interesting. I am not surprised you cast Leigh in The Hateful Eight. What a terrific actor she was/is.But the best elements of this film are not expanded upon. The film needed a risk taking gender bending director like you. Don't get me wrong. I loved the action scenes. Rutger Hauer looked menacing. Though the novelty wore off after a while because the character was so silly. It is an entertaining film with many interesting bits. But you wish the director had taken more liberties.Best Regards, Pimpin.(6/10)

This movie has to be one of the most entertaining road movies I've ever seen. It follows the story of a young man sent across the country to deliver a car to California from Chicago. He ends up picking up a hitchhiker and chaos ensues.When I first saw this movie, I thought the beginning would be the best part. But I was thoroughly surprised when I found the rest of the movie is just as good. The interaction with the hitchhiker and the man at the diner I found to be one of the most tense scenes in the movie.Even though the film has cheesy moments, those are saved by Rutger Hauer's spot on acting as the hitchhiker. He really puts his all into the part and makes it clear his one goal is to make his escapee suffer slowly before he can die. The climax of the movie puts a nice cap on the movie and leaves you at the edge of your seat. This slasher/thriller movie is sure to please, just make sure you don't pick up any hitchhikers along the way.