The Hitcher (2007)

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What's nice about most remakes these days is that they have a really decent budget and the film quality always comes out superior to its predecessor. But as hot as your babes are, and much money as you may have...it doesn't always mean your script is gonna stand up to the original.

Let me start of with the cast, which is pretty great. Sean Bean as John Ryder is a great millennial replacement for the original films baddy Rutger Hauer. Bean is imposing and creepy. You wanna like him because he's handsome, but you're not too sure you can, that smile is hiding something. I love him as a villain. And with Sophia Bush as Grace and Zachery Knighton as Jim, we have plenty of twentysomething eye candy. Their angsty dramatics are on par with our current expectation of horror movie victims.

The problem is the scripts need to change around the hero, or should I say heroin. Before I get to that let me rehash the tale.

Jim picks up Grace, they're going outta town for a couples retreat, a break from Grace's noise college dorm. It starts to rain and they almost run down a man in the road and don't bother to stop. It shakes them both up pretty good and they stop at the next gas station to refresh and calm themselves. Just as they are about to leave the guy the almost ran down shows up and out of guilt Jim offers him a ride. The man absolutely creeps the both of them out and he tries to attack them in the car, but Jim manages to eject him onto the highway.

Grace is ready to turn around and go home. ...

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