Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) The first "Joy Ride" film had star power in it. This sequel is filled with unknowns. To me, this movie focuses on the sadistic trucker, Rusty Nail(Mark Gibbon). He drives a Peterbilt, and he is one trucker you don't want to cross! One rainy night, Rusty Nail leaves a truck stop for some smokes, and a "lot lizard" tries to get some service. Little does she know, this was the wrong trucker to service. Freaked out by his requests, she tries to leave. A heads up that came too late! Then later, an engaged couple(Nicki Aycox and Nick Azano) are on their way to Las Vegas with her sister(Laura Jordan) and her punk boyfriend(Kyle Schmid). Along the way, the car breaks down, and they walk around to find service. They come across a house, and they find a 1971 silver Chevrolet Chevelle that is full of gas and ready to roll. After leaving the information behind to the owner, that's when the nightmare begins. After the foursome go into a diner, the fiancé is grabbed by the trucker, and the head games are ensured. Rusty Nail's demands are so high, about no one in the group could bear such torture. Like sending out a severed middle finger, or the fiancée do a striptease to a trucker who later wasn't Rusty Nail! I mean if anyone has someone of life meaning you would go to extremes to get him or her back. My major question is "Who is this Rusty Nail?" Better yet, "What is he?" If you thought "Duel" was spooky, this movie will make you think twice about hating truckers. 3.5 out of 5 stars

thesar-2 Joy Ride 1 really wasn't that bad of a movie. It's nice to be able to see scenes in horror movies, i.e. in full daylight (also see The Devil's Rejects.) And Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead really wasn't that bad either. That being said, I was glad it was direct to DVD. The way it started off (Red flags shot straight up: here we go again! Back to Texas (yes, this was Utah, I know) and back to the chainsaw family seemed to be the setup) and the way the Internet punk transformed in the final act, were the extremely bad parts. If you can make it past the opening, and bear through the closing, it wasn't a terrible psycho preying on lost 20-something lost kids. The acting was okay (aside from the changed Emo boy), dialogue wasn't too awful (miss the Ted "Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb" voice over, but this one was close enough) and suspense was good enough to give it one watch. After a day of watching Saw V followed by Joy Ride 2 – I would say they're both mediocre horror sequels that are worth watching, if just at home.

BA_Harrison Horror/thriller Roadkill had a nifty plot and a rather cool killer, but a reluctance to get seriously nasty (the film was rated 15 in the UK) and a weak ending ultimately made it a very unmemorable affair; part 2 is certainly a lot nastier, even entering Hostel/Saw-style torture territory towards the end (and earning itself an 18-certificate in the process), but it is also one of the dumbest sequels I have ever seen.The film opens with Melissa (Nicki Aycox), her fiancé Bobby (Nick Zano), and sister Kayla (Laura Jordan) driving to Las Vegas for a bachelor/bachelorette weekend; when the trio stop at a gas station, they are also joined by Kayla's douche-bag internet boyfriend Nik (Kyle Schmid). To save time, the foursome decide to take a desert back-road (doh!) and inevitably experience car trouble. With no sign of any other traffic, they have no option but to set off on foot, and eventually happen upon a deserted house.A search of the property and surrounding buildings results in the discovery of a fully-fuelled Chevy, which they decide to 'borrow', unaware that the owner of the vehicle is psychotic trucker Rusty Nail, who is none to pleased about strangers meddling with his things. Returning home shortly after his unexpected visitors have left, Rusty sets off in pursuit, eager to teach them a lesson.What follows is moronic in the extreme.Whilst taking a leak in a truck-stop restroom, jock Bobby is somehow abducted by tubby, chain-smoker Rusty Nail (without being spotted or any kind of commotion). Rusty then calls Melissa's cell phone, demanding that she and her pals do exactly as he says or Bobby will suffer. Do they call the police, explaining their predicament and telling them where Rusty lives? No, they agree to do exactly as the trucker says, beginning by disposing of their mobile phones.Rusty then informs Melissa (over the CB in the car) that to save Bobby, they must cut off one of Kayla's fingers and take it to him. Do they call the police now? No, they break into a handy nearby funeral parlour and cut a finger from a corpse, hoping that Rusty won't rumble their plan.Rusty rumbles. He cuts off Bobby's ring finger and puts it in Melissa's glove compartment for her to find. Surely she calls the police now? Nope, she apologises to Rusty and continues to carry out his orders.Rusty tells Nik he must dress as a woman and try to score some drugs from a load of wild truckers (apparently, all truck drivers are gak-fiends). Nik reluctantly agrees, but as he totters around in high heels, wig and dress he is also abducted by Rusty. Amazingly, Melissa and Kayla still don't call the police (they do have cops in Nevada, right?—I'm beginning to wonder).Hell, Melissa doesn' t even call in the cops after Rusty kills Kayla by crashing his rig into her as she lays trapped in his Chevy (proving that he couldn't have been THAT fond of the bloody car after all); instead, she steals a police bike and sets off to rescue Bobby and Nik herself—a pretty stupid idea if you ask me, although not as stupid as knocking the trucker unconscious with a shovel and NOT finishing him off while she has the chance—which is precisely what she does!!!As if all of this wasn't unbelievable enough, the finalé sees Melissa fighting the psycho off as she powers his big rig towards a cliff (Chevy/police bike/Peterbilt truck—is there nothing this girl can't drive/ride?), leaping to safety at the last moment (and escaping with hardly a scratch), but still failing to rid the world of Rusty Nail for good, since he returns from the dead before the end credits, complete with brand new truck!

Steve Pulaski It's been nine years since we have seen Rusty Nail provoke and antagonize teenagers. Now we see he has returned to a new bunch of innocents in the sequel, Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead. I have to admit for a sequel to a cult classic movie that came out seven years ago at the time of this film's release, it had a lot of potential to it. The potential this film had was large, and it delivered it. It was a pretty honorable sequel, especially with no returning cast members. Not even Ted Levine (Rusty Nail) returned.The original film wasn't famous until it released on VHS and DVD in 2001. The theater viewing was lukewarm. This one was released Direct-to-DVD in 2008. The original focused more on the three kids freaking out, and with Rusty Nail being hidden most of the time during the movie. This one shows the lower half of his mouth with a cigarette in it whenever he talks which kind of kills the suspense in a way. Though still doesn't ruin the whole film.The movie centers around four main characters. Melissa and her fiancé Bobby (Nicki Aycox and Nick Zano), with her sister Kayla (Laura Jordan), and her online boyfriend Nik (Kyle Schmid), whom she picks up. After having car troubles, (who doesn't in Horror films?) they are forced to break into a seemingly abandoned house and taking the 1983 Chevrolet Caprice. Melissa leaves a note for the owner and her cell number. Little does she know that the house is home to a deranged trucker by the name of Rusty Nail (Mark Gibbon).Because of his anger that the four took his car, Rusty kidnaps Bobby while in the restroom of a truck stop and stalks Melissa, Kayla, and Nik and plays several unspeakable psychological mind games on the three and says if they do everything he says he'll return Bobby unharmed. I wont spoil the tasks, but just to clear up everything, he makes them destroy their cell phones to assure no police will be called.This is every torture porn fan's dream. This film will most likely amuse the fans who were asking for another Joy Ride film, but only slightly entertain the ones really involved in the series, like me. If I get really into a series, I get into it and need to know absolutely every little detail about it. So this amused me, but left me with some questions. I wish they would have brought up something about the first film. An article, a mention, even Rusty saying he's done this before. Anything to hint the first film was real. The time period of the first film was unknown. It could have been in the 90s or 2000s. This film mentions sites like Youtube, Myspace, Google, etc so it's more clear it takes place in present time.I enjoyed the first one beyond belief and one of the only downsides was Ted Levine did not reprise his role as the voice of Rusty Nail. That voice was unspeakably amazing and really gave a dark, convoluted feel to the storyline. So overall, the sequel is what I would call a sequel that does it's job to be a good Horror film, but fails to recognize it's predecessor in any way. It would have been cool to hear Rusty say "I've done this before, it ain't hard".Starring: Nicki Aycox, Nick Zano, Laura Jordan, Kyle Schmid, and Mark Gibbon. Directed by: Louis Morneau.