A sort of retro-tech thriller, a nice change from high-tech thrillers, in which two brothers, driving cross-country in a vintage '71 Chrysler Newport equipped with a CB radio, play a practical joke on a trucker self-dubbed "Rusty Nail," sending him for a romantic rendezvous to the motel room of a burly brute. The joke backfires -- the trucker tears off the brute's jaw -- and the butt of it now seems ready to devote the rest of his life to chasing down the jokesters. The whole show is gleamingly photographed by Jeffrey Jur; and the first act of it, at least, is tightly constructed; and the moral stain on the two heroes (Steve Zahn, Paul Walker) is not glossed over. But thereafter their nemesis balloons to the dimensions of an omnipotent, omnipresent, mythological monster. And interest shrivels in inverse proportion. An above-average teen movie, maybe, but nothing to lift up the declining reputation (Unforgettable, Rounders) of the prematurely overrated (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction) John Dahl. With Leelee Sobieski. (2001) — Duncan Shepherd
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