We are told that he only goes after sinners, but I guess that would be a pretty demanding job given the relative proximity of Las Vegas. They also draw the ire of the trucker before they even stop at the titular locale. The next day, they drive for what seems like hours and are still in the desert, even though if you’re traveling from Texas to California, you’re probably on route 15 and thus you got about 3 hrs’ driving tops from the border to well populated civilization. But on the first night we see them cross into California before stopping for the night. let’s just say Alabama, for argument’s sake. Even if we buy that the guy really thinks he can find his brother after a year of other people looking (he was in Iraq until now, so I guess he was off on another fruitless search), why bring two others along when all signs point to foul play? And their starting point is a bit unclear, but he hopes to make it to El Paso, TX on the first night, so. Then again, their journey doesn’t really make sense in any area. Fine, but the guy takes his own fucking car! If anything, he even slows the process down because every time he needs to stop to piss or fix his shitty car, the heroes (you know - the ones who actually have a stake in the quest) have to stop too. “It’s a long drive, we’ll need all the help we can get,” Tom explains. The movie is about a road trip, more or less, and when he makes it clear that he is coming along, Tom’s girlfriend Marilyn protests. This may be the most useless character in horror movie history. The guy I refer to is Tom’s friend, played by Graham Norris. When a horror movie’s best scene involves a guy driving along talking to (actually, AS) the toy dinosaurs that litter his dashboard, there’s something rotten in DTVmark. Unlike the first movie, which had some decent scenes (the ones where Alexander wasn’t talking) and a somewhat admirable 70s feel, this one just has absolutely nothing going for it. As I sat down, I was prepared to submit “Better Than The Original!” as a quote for the eventual DVD cover, but as the movie unfolded, I realized that simply wasn’t going to be true. Well apparently, which is why we now have Rest Stop: Don’t Look Back, which features a Return of the King style opening flashback that explains the origin of one of the villains, before heading into sequel mode, as Tom (the brother of the dude in the first movie), and his girlfriend go looking for them. Were the inbred religious nuts in the motorhome working with the guy in the truck, or against him? Did they even know each other? Did it fucking matter? A third was the incoherent nature of the film’s villains. Another was its incredibly unlikable “heroine”, played by Jamie Alexander. One was its almost unparalleled amount of padding to make it a feature length film. I fucking hated the first Rest Stop, for a number of reasons.
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