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(1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 11% Rotten Page   1   "Like Red Eye, another highly intense film, The Hitcher moves along rapidly without any extraneous scenes to interfere with its vigorous pace."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker D "The Hitcher kicks off with some road kill (literally), and never really gets much better from there."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark B "Meyers appears to appreciate the basic fundamentals of genre filmmaking, and lets his Hitcher out to play, instead of suffocating the whole thing in hip visuals and flash-cut edit rhythms."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf C- "Hollywood's endless string of no-account remakes gets another knot with this Michael Bay-produced lukewarm update of Robert Harmon's 1986 original."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "She's also a little too convincing when she asserts at last, "I don't feel anything." If Grace hasn't been here before, you most certainly have."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "...the two leads come off as competent yet thoroughly bland (to such an extent that the viewer has almost no rooting interest in their survival)."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2/4 "Has a truly cruel streak and disturbing disregard for life that puts a damper on what otherwise could have been a lean, taut and well-made B-movie."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman D- "Zachary Knighton's second-rate impersonation of Matthew Lillard's Shaggy makes one long for C. Thomas Howell's irresolute interpretation of Jim Halsey (truly an amazing feat)."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens D+ "If only they had a good story and enough solid thrills to sustain it for longer than a half-hour."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C "Though far from a thoughtless dead zone, The Hitcher is too limp and complacent a horror flick to capitalize on its promise, or on its source material."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov D "Bigger, louder and far bloodier than the original, but devoid of all the delicious ambiguity that made it so fascinating."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1.5/4 "There's no snowball effect and the characters are too weakly drawn and acted for there to be any psychological dimension to their interaction. The ending of the first movie was unsettling; the conclusion of this one is unsatisfying."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "What sets this guy off? What, as Sean Bean may well have asked director Dave Meyers, is his motivation?"   In the Dark   Jonathan F. Richards 1.5/5 "As is usually the case with remakes of this sort, instead of soul, point of view, or guts, the movie features a story as flat as its open surroundings, transparent like soda water, with as many holes as bubbles, and a few slices of improbability for flavo"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 3/5 "."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 2.5/5 "Bean deliver a great psycho in this film. In fact, he's probably one of the best things in it, running a close second to Sophia Bush running around in a miniskirt or less."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C "...it will make the 1986 edition, a film marginally well-received in its day, seem like a classic in retrospect."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1.5/4 "Bean carves out his own modest variations on the theme of John Ryder-on-the-storm, but Bush and Knighton are so blandly forgettable that it's hard to believe that they're the protagonists and not Victims 1 and 2."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2/4 "This could have been a polished piece of demented entertainment, but the workings of the script are far too transparent."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik D- "Too silly and stupid to be scary, The Hitcher speeds along with no regard for logic."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "This isn't a commentary on the breakdown of law and order, of civil society itself -- it's a symptom of it."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1.5/4 "Picking up a crazed hitchhiker is conceivable. Picking up a crazed hitchhiker who knows every move you're going to make before you make it is not."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 1/4 "So blandly forgettable that it almost makes one miss the original's C. Thomas Howell...if, that is, it were humanely possible to miss C. Thomas Howell."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1.5/5 "The Hitcher is a cautionary tale about the perils of giving strangers a lift, much like Alligator is a warning against flushing your pet reptile down the toilet."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 "Instead of trying to unsettle viewers, director Dave Meyers goes for the cheapest shock effects possible."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski C- "A long slow freeway drive to nowhere, marked by non-events that should be a lot more frightening than they are."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux D- "Why bother remaking a cult classic?"   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 2/5 "If you can't improve upon your original in some small but interesting way, then you're simply churning out assembly-line product for a gradually more disinterested fan-base."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg -2 out of -4..+4 Read review   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper  (1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 11% Rotten Page   1