Worst friend ever Caroline decides they can hitchhike to the festival. When Jess is almost hit by a car while standing in the road in the middle of nowhere, the guys in the car offer them a ride. Carline confirms her potential future serial killer victim status when she says the guys seem harmless and they should accept the ride. Their lack of cranical functioning continues when they put their duffel bags in the trunk rather than keeping the in the back seat in case they need to make a quick exit.
When they stop at a convenience store for gas and snacks, the girls strip down to their underwear in the restroom. Who does that? I guess it was to dress more attractively for the men in the car, which is crazy since they don’t know anything about them. When Jess starts messing around with one of the guys things go badly. The ensuing chaos leads them to hit a car on the side of the road and catapult into the air and down the embankment.
This is where thing go off the rails as far as anything making sense. I have no idea why the girls were unable to figure out how to get out of the car. One of the guys is outside. So either a window broke in the crash or he went through it. Yet the girls are stuck in the car. The second guy wakes up, pushes open his window and crawls out. The girls are still stuck inside. They’re as skinny as he is. I thought maybe one girl was supposed to have an injury where she couldn’t walk, but she walks later in the film. So why can’t they get out of the car?
Next the guys argue about whether to help the girls out of the car. They want to get away since the car has a tracking device and someone is going to show up looking for it. They spend so much time arguing about whether to help the girls that they could have helped them and gotten away. Just stop arguing about it.
There is a small hole in the windshield. Jess keeps grabbing it with her hands and trying to break off pieces of glass by pulling them towards her. Oh my god woman, why? The window is bowed outwards, and you can generate much more force by kicking your legs into the window than trying to use your tiny hand to pull pieces of broken glass towards you. And once you’ve pecked the hole a little bigger, don’t try forcing your head through it. It’s jagged glass.
Also one of the guys has a branch piercing his chest. The stick is literally keeping blood from gushing out of his wound. The worst thing anyone could do is pull the stick out. And yet his friend does. Gah!
The police in this town are pretty incompetent as well. A guy shows up at the crash site saying he’s from the FBI and he’ll take care of the wreck. The policeman calls dispatch and finds out the FBI say don’t know anything about this.... but he isn’t suspicious at all. Seriously man, you should immediately have your hand on your gun and be eagled eyed.
I thought the characters were supposed to be in college, but the description of the movie says teenagers. So these are really old looking teens in a movie that will frustrate you.
Dialogue of note:
I sincerely apologize. I really do, but the sound of your voice is killing us faster.
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