Synopsis
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the young couple with a knife, but Jim succeeds to throw him out of the car on the road. On the next morning, the young couple sees John in another car.
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Cast
- Sean BeanJohn Ryder
- Sophia BushGrace Andrews
- Zachary KnightonJim Halsey
- Neal McDonoughLieutenant Esteridge
- Kyle DavisStore Clerk
- Danny BoleroOfficer Edwards
- Jeffrey HutchinsonYoung Father
- Skip O'BrienHarlan Bremmer Sr.
- Travis SchuldtHarlan Bremmer Jr.
- Yara MartinezBeth
Recommandations
- 50
Premiere
The Hitcher's main problem is that many of the title character's dirty deeds are done off-camera. Instead of seeing Ryder trap his victims before he kills them, the audience is treated to plenty of butchered corpses that seem to magically appear after Ryder leaves a room. - 50
New York Post
The Hitcher is the Jessica Simpson of psycho killer flicks - cheerfully in touch with its own brainlessness. - 42
The A.V. Club
Somehow, music-video veteran David Meyers fails to hurtle this project into the pantheon of great horror movies. - 38
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 30
L.A. Weekly
That leaves little to fill 83 expendable minutes, which barely register as a movie even with snazzy KNB gore effects, critic-baiting clips from "The Birds," a splattery variation on the '86 "Hitcher's" most notorious scene, and some out-of-place Bruckheimerisms on loan from producer Michael Bay. - 30
The New York Times
The movie genuflects toward pop depth in a scene where Grace sprawls on a motel bed watching Alfred Hitchcock’s "Birds," another thriller about implacable, undefined evil, but there’s a difference between refusing to give viewers the answers and having nothing to say. For all its death-metal vigor, The Hitcher falls into the latter camp. - 30
Film Threat
Reviewing it is a wholly meaningless exercise, but I do it against my better judgment that anyone even seeks a second opinion before plopping down their hard-earned money for garbage like this. - 25
Boston Globe
If you boil off dialogue, performance, narrative logic and grind a movie down to the nub of genre, will there be any suspense left? The answer is yes, but only in a Pavlovian sense. You react to this dull shockathon like a wired lab rat who's seen it all before. And guess what? You have.
