Ride 3 review
Car flips, exploding cars, stuff like that. There a couple very good-looking stunts in the film. The fuck, Jordan? The cops could’ve been there already! When Jordan gets to the junkyard, he tells them to take the car and find a gas station to call the police. But then another kid, Jordan, takes the phone and hangs it up.
Y’know, so he can tell them exactly where this rampaging murderer is. In one scene, Rusty tells the kids to meet him at a junkyard, so one of the kids calls 911. The script makes some really nonsensical decisions as well. Rooting for the villain is common in horror, but since Rusty AND the kids are so hollow, Joy Ride 3 provides us no one to cheer on. We don’t get to know them or care about them, so it’s nothing but apathy for this lot. But much like Rusty Nail, they just don’t have much going on. There’s no wicked annoying pest, no ditz, no dimwitted jock type – just some normal kids. He’s got no personality and besides throwing some puns around, there’s simply nothing appealing about him.Īs far as the street racing team goes (Kirsten Prout, Ben Hollingsworth, Jesse Hutch, Gianpaolo Venuta, Leela Savasta), I did appreciate that none of them are obnoxious caricatures. Rusty Nails himself isn’t an interesting villain either. There’s a ton of blood, sure, there’s isn’t any cleverness behind the mayhem though. That choice works well because it makes the truck almost like its own character, but unfortunately the kills aren’t very inspired. In this one, he just uses various parts of his truck to torture and kill them. In the last installment, Rusty toyed with the kids a lot, which made the kills a bit more fun. Like the old school road rager that he is, Rusty trails the team, leading to a bloody game of cat and mouse.
That’s where they run into Rusty, who they narrowly cut off. On their way to a race, they decide to test their fate by taking an infamous stretch of highway known for making people disappear. This time around it’s a street racing team that pisses him off. Worst of all, the characters are so lifeless, the film gives the audience no one to root for!Īfter a prologue in which Rusty takes care of some meth heads who try to roll him, we’re introduced to the real prey. It has its moments but overall feels lifeless and entirely unnecessary. I thought the first two were okay and that pretty much sums up how I feel about this latest installment, Joy Ride 3: Roadkill. Rusty Nail is back! Whether you want him to be or not! I’m not a big fan of the Joy Ride franchise.