The Hitcher (2007) Critic Reviews

Somehow, music-video veteran David Meyers fails to hurtle this project into the pantheon of great horror movies.Read the full review

A remake of the 1986 suspense ''classic,'' is as processed and hoot-worthy as the original.Read the full review

This is a mechanical gore-fest that offers preposterous stunts in place of escalating tension and waxwork mannequins in place of marginally interesting characters.Read the full review

The original film was intellectually engaging as well as tangibly creepy, while the new remake is just plain bad, and boring to boot.Read the full review

The movie genuflects toward pop depth in a scene where Grace sprawls on a motel bed watching Alfred Hitchcock’s "Birds," another thriller about implacable, undefined evil, but there’s a difference between refusing to give viewers the answers and having nothing to say. For all its death-metal vigor, The Hitcher falls into the latter camp.Read the full review

If you boil off dialogue, performance, narrative logic and grind a movie down to the nub of genre, will there be any suspense left? The answer is yes, but only in a Pavlovian sense. You react to this dull shockathon like a wired lab rat who's seen it all before. And guess what? You have.Read the full review

Any good will built up during the decent first half hour is quickly vaporized.Read the full review

While the 1986 edition was no classic, it's light years better than this update, which naturally opened without being screened for those ultimate villains, the critics.Read the full review