What do you
mean you don't deliver?
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You could be
forgiven for thinking Roadkill is another teen slasher flick, it's
not far off that.
The only difference is there's no knifes, just a nutter in a truck.
Neil Heath
At one point
Roadkill is quite promising, but it doesn't turn into something
we've never seen before, which I hoped it would. However, practical
jokers be warned!
Plot
Lewis (Walker) is on his way from college to pick up his potential-future
girlfriend Venna (Sobieski). On the way he gets a call from his
Mum, his brother Fuller (Zahn), is in the nick again.
Lewis bails
him out and they begin a long trip across America. To alleviate
the boredom, they buy an old CB radio which enables them to avoid
traffic police and to perform some practical jokes.
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| Oh dash,
I left the gas on. |
Caught
up in one of the gags is unrevealed trucker Rusty Nail.
Rusty's not happy about having been had, in fact he's clearly livid,
the evidence is his willingness to kill anyone in his path.
Rusty will stop at nothing to avenge the joke and increase his
personal dead body toll.
Review
Roadkill on the surface sounds like all the other slasher/psycho
movies, and to an extent it is.
The difference
is that Roadkill has decent performances and fairly snappy dialogue,
much better than the corny chit chat we expect with this sort of
film.
But my big problem
lies with the psychopath himself.
Rusty Nail has a great name, but he won't go down in history as
the best cinematic nutter. That accolade goes to more believable
maniacs - Mr Lecter for example.
He goes through seemingly endless measures to humiliate and maim
the brothers, so much so that it gets a bit boring and farcical.
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| I guess
no one told Leelee Sobieski that a psychotic trucker is on the
loose. |
Roadkill can
at times be quite scary, that may have been because I was in the
cinema on my own.
To its credit, the neon lighting and the lack of music, makes the
film fairly eerie.
But, as proven with Wes Craven's 'Scream', the thriller has to have
an element of cleverness in order to make it a good movie, Roadkill
doesn't quite have it.
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