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Hitcher, The

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 52 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Horror | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Jake Wade Wall
Eric Red (1986 screenplay)
Eric Bernt
Directed by: Dave Meyers
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 19, 2007
DVD: May 1, 2007
Running Time: 83 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong bloody violence, terror and language
Starring Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton, Neal McDonough, Kyle Davis, Skip O'Brien, Travis Schuldt, and Danny Bolero
An update of the 1986 film of the same name.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Premiere Stephen Saito
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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
The Hitcher is the Jessica Simpson of psycho killer flicks - cheerfully in touch with its own brainlessness.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
The young couple is far less compelling, which is one reason why the remake is only intermittently effective. Bland and dim-witted, it's hard to see why they'd attract Ryder's wrath.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A remake of the 1986 suspense ''classic,'' is as processed and hoot-worthy as the original.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Somehow, music-video veteran David Meyers fails to hurtle this project into the pantheon of great horror movies.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
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.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
This is a mechanical gore-fest that offers preposterous stunts in place of escalating tension and waxwork mannequins in place of marginally interesting characters.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
The original film was intellectually engaging as well as tangibly creepy, while the new remake is just plain bad, and boring to boot.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
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.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Jim Ridley
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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz
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.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
Any good will built up during the decent first half hour is quickly vaporized.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
While the 1986 edition was no classic, it's light years better than this update, which naturally opened without being screened for those ultimate villains, the critics.
Read Full Review >Variety Ronnie Scheib
In the absence of actors with the tremendous presence of Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh, picture loses its raison d'etre. Yet, directed by video helmer Dave Meyers with a certain fastidious distance from its plentiful gore, picture is also insufficiently over-the-top or corny to incite gleeful audience feedback.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
The first film was near-mythic in its tone and treatment of its characters, while this remake barely serves as a primer in how not to generate suspense.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.0 (out of 10) based on 52 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Dan T gave it a2:
Mindless violence justified only by poor characterization. The Hitcher offers predictable 'thrills' and a shallow plot that seems to perpetuate itself for the sake of attempting to fill the void between the film's beginning and a divergent conclusion, the only possible end to such a spiraling sequence of events masquerading as a plot.
Lenny R. gave it a10:
An amazing horror experience. I really enjoyed this creepy film.
Joshua R. gave it an8:
A really good horror remake. One of the best I've seen in a long while.
Daniel H. gave it a10:
Creepy to no end, a great horror film form beginning to end. Sean Bean rocks as the Hitcher.
Nathan O. gave it a10:
An amazing horror film the best I seen in awhile.
R. L. gave it a10:
An amazingly disturbing and creepy horror film that will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout. This reimaging of a boring and not so scary horror film is a much better film than the original. The Hitcher stars Sophia Bush and Zachary Knighton as Jim Halsey(the name of the original Hitcher) and Grace Andrews, a college couple en route to spring break along the way they meet the mysterious John Ryder. He introduces himself and asks if he can trouble them for a ride, Jim reluctantly agrees, almost a mile form the gas station Ryder pulls a knife on Jim and tells Jim to say four little words " I want to die." Jim soon manages to kick Ryder rout of the car and drive off. And that begins the pulse pounding, heart stopping and mind blowing horror film that explodes into a nonstop thrill ride that won't let up till the very end.
A W gave it a1:
Only noteworthy thing about it is the unintentional comedy.
