Like with Wrong Turn 2, I enjoyed the prequel of this movie, the first Joy Ride. Maybe it was the thrills but I think it was more likely because of the actors.
Also like Wrong Turn 2, Joy Ride 2 is actually competent. The acting was good, which made it a pity that they had two of the four leads being stupid, annoying ****s. The one person (the heroine's boyfriend) who had any common sense at all was removed from the picture early - probably because he had common sense.
But unlike Wrong Turn 2, I didn't enjoy this movie, though not because it wasn't a pretty tense thriller. It just came across as too bleak for me. Whereas the characters in the other movie had a fighting chance, it felt like the ones here were pretty much going to be subjected to torture after torture. There was also not much sense to it all. A psychotic trucker is the villain but it might as well be a psychotic ____ (fill in profession here). This movie would fit better as torture porn instead of thriller but there's not nearly enough gore for it, so it's kinda neither here nor there.
Also like Wrong Turn 2, Joy Ride 2 is actually competent. The acting was good, which made it a pity that they had two of the four leads being stupid, annoying ****s. The one person (the heroine's boyfriend) who had any common sense at all was removed from the picture early - probably because he had common sense.
But unlike Wrong Turn 2, I didn't enjoy this movie, though not because it wasn't a pretty tense thriller. It just came across as too bleak for me. Whereas the characters in the other movie had a fighting chance, it felt like the ones here were pretty much going to be subjected to torture after torture. There was also not much sense to it all. A psychotic trucker is the villain but it might as well be a psychotic ____ (fill in profession here). This movie would fit better as torture porn instead of thriller but there's not nearly enough gore for it, so it's kinda neither here nor there.