Joy Ride (2001)

"You want to be scared and have a few laughs and not have your intelligence insulted? Here you go."

"(This) film is much more effectively terrifying than the usual overplotted, underwritten Hollywood thriller."

"(A) surprisingly effective mad trucker thriller..."

"Steve Zahn hands down steals the show in Joy Ride."

"The pace is brisk enough, and the lead players charismatic enough, to distract from a few nagging lapses in logic and continuity."

"No one wins awards for movies like this, but this is escapist entertainment raised to the level of art."

"Typically efficient for a Dahl film, Joy Ride still smells of Hollywood."

"The king of the road is Zahn, expertly steering his path between ironic goofball and real scared dude."

"Dahl works the audience like the dial of a car radio, testing out all manner of squeals and static and all-out, high-pitched terror."

"(It) is actually far slicker and much more enjoyable than either its title or its silly premise suggests."