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I saw it for the first time, but I found it very frustrating to watch cause the main character I felt kept making one dumb decision after another and kept painting himself into corner.
Mainly with the police by just not explaining things, and choosing to run from them.
Particularly the scene where he wakes up in the jail cell only to find the door open, only to find the whole police station of officers has been murdered. He hears sirens coming and decides to run. But all he had to do was go back into the jail cell, close the door, and then just say he was locked inside the whole time, and had no idea what happened in the station cause he couldn't see anything.
Wouldn't this have been the best thing to do?
He also decides to take police hostage later, instead of just quietly turn himself in.
The police are also really dumb to. One of the cops, instead of arresting him, wants to shoot him to death, to avenge his friends, thinking he did it. But the cop is willing to murder him, in front of a whole bus full of witnesses. I was thinking really?
The police are also stupid cause they actually let the villain tear a woman in half with the two trucks. As soon as they saw the villain was actually going to do it, they could have just shot the ropes connected to her feet, and they should have been ready to shoot them if they had to.
But no, they actually let the villain tear her apart.
So I felt the movie was just really poorly written and lacked intelligence, but maybe I'm wrong? What do you think?
The police are also stupid cause they actually let the villain tear a woman in half with the two trucks. As soon as they saw the villain was actually going to do it, they could have just shot the ropes connected to her feet, and they should have been ready to shoot them if they had to.
There weren't any marksmen around. Do you know how good you have to be to do that? If a bullet severed a rope, that would be a hell of a lucky shot. And there's still no guarantee she wouldn't be dismembered.
I saw this at the movies in 1986. I don't think I've seen it since. Rutger Hauer plays menace really well, but this is by no means one of his better movies.
I saw it for the first time, but I found it very frustrating to watch cause the main character I felt kept making one dumb decision after another and kept painting himself into corner.
As with complaining that The Good, The Bad and the Ugly lacked character development, if you don't like The Hitcher because the main character makes bad decisions, then you're simply doing it wrong - 'it' being watching movies. Because The Hitcher belongs to a genre in which a protagonist being prone to unwise choices is practically a requirement.
Next thing you know, you'll be telling us that Die Hard just wasn't very realistic...
I saw it for the first time, but I found it very frustrating to watch cause the main character I felt kept making one dumb decision after another and kept painting himself into corner.
Mainly with the police by just not explaining things, and choosing to run from them.
Particularly the scene where he wakes up in the jail cell only to find the door open, only to find the whole police station of officers has been murdered. He hears sirens coming and decides to run. But all he had to do was go back into the jail cell, close the door, and then just say he was locked inside the whole time, and had no idea what happened in the station cause he couldn't see anything.
Wouldn't this have been the best thing to do?
He also decides to take police hostage later, instead of just quietly turn himself in.
The police are also really dumb to. One of the cops, instead of arresting him, wants to shoot him to death, to avenge his friends, thinking he did it. But the cop is willing to murder him, in front of a whole bus full of witnesses. I was thinking really?
The police are also stupid cause they actually let the villain tear a woman in half with the two trucks. As soon as they saw the villain was actually going to do it, they could have just shot the ropes connected to her feet, and they should have been ready to shoot them if they had to.
But no, they actually let the villain tear her apart.
So I felt the movie was just really poorly written and lacked intelligence, but maybe I'm wrong? What do you think?
I saw it a zillion years ago and rather liked it. I don't remember the scene with the woman and the trucks though. Ewwwww
There weren't any marksmen around. Do you know how good you have to be to do that? If a bullet severed a rope, that would be a hell of a lucky shot. And there's still no guarantee she wouldn't be dismembered.
The cops were standing about five feet in front of her from what I remember. How hard is it to walk up five feet, and get close since you are already close?
Plus if she is going to die anyway, why not at least try to save her, rather than say, oh it's too hard, so might as well not even try, and just let her die.
And I understand not every movie character has to be smart, but I think there is a limit as to how many foolish risks a main character to take, till it gets the point where we don't believe he cares enough about himself.
If you love Jennifer Jason Leigh, I hope you've seen Flesh & Blood.
Very under-rated flick. One of the best middle ages movies out there.
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