This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Without a notable road horror movie since The Hitcher, Joy Ride came out and became a hit with younger audiences and established itself as one of the better horror films at the start of the twenty first century in 2001. The idea of two brothers playing pranks on a trucking radio systems is a good initial concept of a thrilling road movie. Not being able to see the trucker but his car, the voice had to sound creepy and believable. The rugged voice hit the mark pretty well and led to some highly quotable remarks, for instance "Candyy Cannne"… The film is exciting overall but the beginning, middle and ending seemed a bit detached at times, a blemish on the writing and editing throughout.

Recently revisited JOY RIDE for the first time in years. John Dahl is a guy I can get behind...his early noir triumvirate (KILL ME AGAIN, RED ROCK WEST and THE LAST SEDUCTION) is marvelous while ROUNDERS is as essential to my existence as my heart flow.I love southwestern road movies...they're eerily transfixing, with their varied landscapes and desultory byroads that contain the very essence of America's identity. DUEL, RACE WITH THE DEVIL, THE HITCHER, BREAKDOWN, that stuff's great.JOY RIDE excels in all the same areas those movies did for exactly half of its running time. Two brothers bonding to outwit and evade a psychotic trucker (voiced by the wonderfully menacing Ted Levine) is pitch-perfect in pacing, thrills, and atmosphere.Everything changes once Leelee enters the picture. The plot becomes incoherent, the chemistry is sabotaged, and the well-earned tension is shattered. Worse yet, the decision to reveal the antagonist is not only jarring (this is clearly not the Mr. Lotion we all know fondly), it evaporates the air of mystery around his character. Had this movie stuck with the brothers while relegating Rusty Nail to just some deranged, detached voice on a CB radio, we'd have a near classic on our hands.JOY RIDE comes recommended, with a caveat that it could have been better.

En route to pick up a friend (the gorgeous Leelee Sobieski) the late Paul Walker (pre his Fast & The Furious fame) and Steve Zahn play a prank using a CB radio on a truck driver, unaware of the murderous lengths he will go to to get his revenge. I'm not normally a fan of these types of movies, but nothing else was on TV, so I decided to give it a go and I'm glad I did.It reminded me a lot of Duel (Steven Spielberg's first movie, starring Dennis Weaver being pursued by a manic truck driver) which I was a big fan of growing upPaul Walker is certainly a good looking guy, and Zahn is perfectly cast as his troublesome older brother, but it's Sobieski I remembered long after that movie ended. And it is not just because she is an obviously talented actress, she is. It's because she seemed to spend the entire movie with permanently erect nipples, after making the mistake of going bra less for most of the movie. It's not like me to complain over such things (and I certainly didn't object to spending my time staring at her) but I found it distracting, and it took a bit away from the movie. I loved the cliffhanger ending too.

"Joy Ride" is a thriller movie in which three teenagers talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.This movie is not something awesome but it is a movie that if you have spare time and you do not want to watch a movie which is complicate or something like that, then you have to see this movie. It's a movie that you will have much of suspense and is a thriller which is not so bad.The only interpretation that is worth in this movie is Paul Walker's who plays really great. Steve Zahn really tries to give us a nice interpretation but he does not do it right.