Road Rage (2000)

That was an excellent one.

Overrated and overhyped

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I just picked this movie up from Big Lot for 3 dollars, and I am going to return it tomorrow morning when they open.Who ever was involved in making this movie needs to kill themselves in the worst way a person can die. The acting was so bad it was hilarious, they made so many mistakes in this movie with many props and camera guys being seen. It was actually getting painful to watch, and I had to walk away a few times.I didn't even want to give it a 1 star rating. Just who ever made this movie, DIE, just DIE, I don't know what else to say to you. You are a POS, and I want that 1 1/2 hours of my life back

This is movie is crap beyond crap. I will only mention a few points here as to why I think this movie is crap, as it is a long time since I saw it. Here goes:As several others have noted why does these characters go to college, they all appear to be about 30+ years old. And the car chase...The chase would never have started if Casper van Dien had en't cut that car of 3 times!! And all the time whining about the nut-case in the truck. And later when they are on foot, Casper suggests that they walk in a river so that their pursuers wouldn't be able to follow their tracks...COME ON!!! How stupid is that! City slickers racing along in a big pickup truck at 50mph+ are not going to notice the tracks of two persons on foot. The editing was crap, one moment the cars are all banged up, and the next they are fine again. Using the same cuts several times over. Dialogue was crap, and so was the acting.Despite these and a multitude of other factors (also crap)this film was fun to watch...in a frustrating and painful way. If you like crappy movies then this is probably one of the best round.

There seems to be a craze to make movies from original sources such as comic books and even video games, and some of them have been quite successful. So I really wondered if a movie called Road Rage was going to resemble those noisy theater lobby games where hyped up virtual cars go flying madly around a screen moving faster than warp speed, to the accompaniment of blasting rock music, and how long they could keep it up anyway. The answer is, it did resemble the games, and they kept it up for about 100 minutes of really harrowing chases interspersed with just enough character exposition to keep you wanting to stick another quarter in the slot so the game wouldn't stop.The plot was rudimentary and the characters rather sketchy, but somehow I found myself really getting into the chase, wincing as I watched careening cars, exploding fireballs and demolished structures, and wondering if we were ever going to see behind the darkened windows of the demon truck, and just who was going to survive the mayhem. It didn't take long to get to the point where I want to see the Neanderthalean Bo get squished between a rock and hard place, or bus and mountainside, or whatever current obstacle course was being presented, but this wasn't entirely Luke & Leia vs. Darth and the Dark Hordes. The rescued Sonia could be a mouthy and irritating, and Jim wasn't ready to roll over on his back and surrender to the alpha wolf before doing a little stunt driving himself, after which he shouted in a burst of testosterone-fueled glee, 'I'm the man!' As Sonia rightly pointed out, there was a certain amount of just plain old Y-chromosomal orneriness in both hunter and prey, and she wasn't always certain she wanted anything to do with any of it. Not until one of them tried to shoot her, at any rate. That pushed her over the edge; she not only cried and screamed, she retaliated.The characters' reactions may not always seem consistent or credible, but on the other hand, do we really know how we would react in a situation like this? Sometimes the surprising reaction to being scared witless is to make a stupid joke; then we might shift into defiance, or cry, or throw up-terror manifests in myriad ways. The ending was reminiscent of Speed, with one creepy difference-the last spoken word in the movie. Were we supposed to be left with a feeling that perhaps Fate had engineered a minor tragedy here, that this wasn't just a couple of simians acting out 'the same old story, a fight for love and glory'? Nah. Couldn't be. It was just a fleshed-out video game. Wasn't it?

There's an old saying that goes, "If a movie is made called Road Rage, starring Casper Van Dien, and I watch it twice.....how come I'm still breathing?" Well for the longest time, I was plagued by that old proverb. So you can imagine my relief when a search for said movie on this very website came up empty. I began to wonder, "If this movie didn't exist, then why do I have distinct memories of watching it twice and spending 5 bucks for it at Wal-mart?" The only reasonable explanation was that maybe I had witnessed some awful thing...like a bizarre race featuring a crazed Halle Berry flying down the road in reverse leaving a bloody trail of pedestrians in her wake, only to receive an Oscar when she crossed the finish line. Something this awful might have triggered my brain into creating the movie, Road Rage, so as to numb my body to the pain of reality. I left the computer feeling somewhat relieved that I hadn't wasted 5 bucks. This was short-lived however, because just then there was a knock on the door. I opened it only to find a very large basket with a sound asleep Casper Van Dien inside. There was a note attached, which basically said that since I had seen Road Rage twice AND bought it, that somehow I had agreed to adopt Casper Van Dien and raise him as my own. My heart sank with this realization that not only did Road Rage exist, but that I had basically bought Casper Van Dien and overpaid by about $4.37. So basically what I'm trying to say is never ever watch or buy Road Rage (or A Friday Night Date, as I was later told by Casper Van Dien was the alternate title), unless you want to spend the rest of your days discussing how "Shark Attack" and "Python" are truly great and misunderstood films, with a sad and bitter little man.