The landscape offers a lot to work with, ripe vistas aplenty, but there’s no enduring image from the cinematography side of things.
I was expecting tension and chills; this was mainly boring and unimaginative. Nothing seemed to be at stake despite all the bloodshed, and the lack of any dynamic between the driver and the demented hitchhiker is a letdown. I couldn’t locate a personality in anyone here in what in essence is a variation of the same violent road encounter occurring every 10 minutes.
The laziness of writing pisses me off, be this in a slimy thriller like we have here or a mega bucks operation. It’s not difficult to insert a few character traits and attempt to build depth but nah, apparently it’s too much of a Herculean task.
Rutger Hauer could be a scary man, though. And what happened to C. Thomas Howell?
Wanderings and ... wonderings. 