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I am giving this an AVERAGE (C) because it's made for home video and not movie. Other wise a "D" would apply. I try to be easy on horrors but This one was hard. Jess and Nicole leave Texas for stardom in California. BAD chatter is meant to pass as “character development,” The couple pull off the road for a 'quickie'. Here's something not seen in low-budget films - a body double in a nude scene. The stand-in has a very nice body, Why didn’t they just cast her in the role of Nicole instead of Jaimie Alexander? Her performance couldn’t have been any worse! After sex, back on road, quickly run into a redneck in an old truck. He runs them off road, Jess jumps out to kick ass, truck speeds away. Wanna' take bets the redneck in the Ford will show up again? (-: They pull over at a rest stop, Jess waits in car, Nicole goes into a filthy ladies room. I know all hell is about to break loose. 2 reasons. 1. The couple is at a rest stop. Title of the movie is Rest Stop. Duh... 2. At beginning of movie, a woman is murdered in the same bathroom decades earlier. Nicole returns, Jess is gone. She immediately thinks that he’s abandoned her, so she sits around for hours. In this entire time, not a single person passes through the rest stop. But someone does finally show up. Yep, it’s the deranged redneck and his truck. Bet you didn’t see that one coming. it’s a cat and mouse game between Nicole and the psychotic truck enthusiast. Along the way, we’ll meet Officer Michael Deacon (Joseph Lawrence), the world’s most incompetent police officer, and we’ll find out just how many times that Nicole can say the word “f*ck.” Aspects of the movie are solid but the script is BAD. Dialogue is wooden and unrealistic. The characters behave as if they suffer from some mass learning disorder. OK,every horror film has a few idiots who go in the woods to investigate strange sounds they’ve heard, but at least those people get killed within a few minutes after their stupidity. In Rest Stop, the main character bumbles about for an hour and a half. The character of Nicole's the most dimwitted heroine to get splattered with blood. This is WHY! Let’s look at a few things I saw which highlights a complete lack of survival skills. 1.She realizes the redneck abducted her boyfriend, breaks into a park ranger’s office at the rest stop (I have no idea why a park ranger would have an office at a rest stop) finishes off a bottle of whiskey she finds. Don’t know about you, but getting drunk would not be on my list if a psycho is after me. 2. After help by a deranged family of religious fanatics in an RV, she insists on investigating strange noises and flashing lights which are coming from the back of the camper, despite repeated warnings no to. 3. At one point, a gun is available to her and isn’t more than five feet away. She ignores it! She takes only after it's pointed out by another character. 4.The rest stop is surrounded by thick forest, Nicole insists on continually locking herself in the bath room. It should also be noted that this is where the killer obviously grabbed the rest of his victims (since many of his victims wrote helpful warnings on the inside of the stall door). Many other but I can't go on. Just Nicole's an idiot. The cop she runs into is worse. I won’t spoil it for you, but the scenes between her & cop are bizarre. plain whack. Always a few dumb characters in a horror film, but all of them? Buy under $5 on ebayRead full review
Even though it's not named 'Rest Stop 2,' it picks right up where the first one left off. I think it's more gorey than the first one, though and has more action than the first. A little hard to follow at times, figuring out who is real and who is a ghost, but I guess that's probably how it's supposed to be to keep the watcher's attention. Anyway, I liked it and think it's worth buying to have in your collection if you are a horror movie fan.
Not sure but seemed SLOW,Ireally not that good,dissapointed. First one is great.😖 3 star's is border line.
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If you liked the first (Rest Stop-Dead Ahead), you are more than likely to be disappointed with this one. The story gets very confusing at times, and once again leaves you hanging at the end of the picture. After this installment, there is nothing that makes me want to come back for more. It's a lot of the same old stuff rehashed, and it doesn't look like new 'old' stuff. It's all been done before, with a lot better storylines (Saw comes to mind). Thankfully I didn't pay a lot for this DVD. Even so, I didn't feel as though I got my money's worth (that is not a stab at the seller, just the movie itself). Save your money, and just buy popcorn, you'll enjoy it that much more.
Better than expected - edge of seat terror!
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