ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

jtncsmistad Not gonna spend a lot of time on this one. "Curve" stars Julianne Hough (TV's "Dancing With The Stars") as a bride-to-be who veers way off track with an unhinged hitchhiker on an ill-advised back road detour to the wedding.Pretty standard fare madman-menaces-beautiful girl (and Hough stays STAGGERINGLY so even after being beat up in an over the cliff car crash) fare with some pretty fair acting from the damsel in DEEP distress. Hough actually does one helluva job here in practically the worst predicament possible. This includes those SERIOUSLY squeamish interludes where a girl does what a girl's gotta do for makeshift nourishment. Eeeeeeewwwwwwww!!! I won't delve into the seemingly standard requisite moments of implausibility in "Curve" as they are readily apparent even if you're only HALF paying attention. I will make mention however that even in this modest movie I expected more from the ending than the cath...no, wait. I won't say it.If you should find the free time and you choose to fill it with this small-scale suspenser, you will then indubitably be able to complete this adjective I have chosen, as a serial sans-spoiler, not to.

TdSmth5 A girl named Mallory drives from California to Oregon for her wedding. Somewhere in the desert the fiancée's old car she's driving brakes down. As luck would have it a hiker appears who gets her car started again, after he takes his shirt off for no good reason. She offers him a ride and insists on dropping him off at a cabin were he's staying. Out of the blue he starts telling her offensive sexual stuff. She stops and asks him to get off her car. He pulls out a knife and keep driving. He's not wearing his seat belt so she figures she can get out of this by driving the car off the road and down a cliff.The car ends up upside down and her foot stuck in the instrument panel. They guy was ejected but eventually gets up uninjured and just leaves her there after realizing her terrible situation. He comes back a couple of times to taunt her. He brings food and drinks that he consumes in front of her without sharing. Then he brings a bag of tools with a nailgun to threaten her and leaves her with a saw in case she wants to get out.I think she spends 3 night in the car with a lighter and a bottle of water. Fortunately it rains so she gets some more water but at some point she gets hungry. All there is nearby...rats. Finally the rain gets really bad and the river moves the car. That allows her to free herself.Meanwhile the guy manages to kidnap a cop and take him to the cabin that he's taken over. Mallory limps to the very same cabin, discovers what's going on there and will have to confront the bad guy eventually.Curve is one of those very minimalistic thrillers--two actors and most of the movie taking place in just one setting. And even though acting isn't Julianne Hough's talent, the movie works. It's well directed and looks good. They even added some depth to the script as when the stranger muses about all the factors that had to come together for these two to meet. The unfortunate lesson the movie wants to teach though is don't be good to strangers. The guy's motivation seems to be to get back at those who help him. He offered her many chances to let him go, but she insisted and now he can't but make her suffer for it. Not a good message for society where trust is hard to come by already.

freesaywhatever Have you ever watched a movie so bad you were cheering for the bad guy? This is one of those. At least, the bad guy had some depth to his character. The protagonist in this movie is a girl on her way to Denver to get married. Like any bad horror movie, she decides to take the path less traveled and ends up stranded with a broken car. Enter seemingly nice guy who helps her fix it and that's where the movie begins. I was intrigued in the beginning, the movie adds refreshing spin to the stranger-danger tale but it runs into the same problem all horror movies based on recycled plots usually do: how to make the end interesting and memorable. This movie doesn't. The last 30 mins were painful to watch, I almost didn't finish it because it went from a great slow-paced "what will happen next?" To a "revenge" theme almost abruptly. I'd rather have them stick to tried and true endings that work. As for the characters, shallow and completely undeveloped. Be prepared for tons of "hoarse" voice 'HELP' scene. The antagonist is quite interesting but it's such a shame we have no idea what his motivations are. protagonist is just some girl, no depth there either. Few scenes are thrown in, seemingly randomly, to make the scenario realistic but it comes off as an after-thought and doesn't work well with the theme of the movie. All in all, I kept thinking throughout the movie "that isn't what happens in real life" and "what a dumb move" skip it, if you ask me. *forgive typos, on my ipad*

view_and_review Have you ever watched a movie, particularly a horror movie or thriller, in which you really didn't like the protagonist? This was that type of movie.Mallory's (Juliane Hough) car breaks down on her way to Denver from San Francisco. As fate would have it some hunky guy is hiking and helps her get on the road again. She returns the favor by giving him a ride and lo and behold he's not such a good guy.This rehashed, good-looking-bad-dude-whom-you-trusted plot is so tired and they did nothing to make it likable. And the main character, Mallory, whoa buddy. She was everything wrong with a petite pretty blond. She made one poor decision after another which is why she ended up in a terrible situation. Then couple that with her hoarse voice and she became more annoying.This movie was replete with a flimsy predictable plot, impossibly absurd lead character and bad acting. I mean, even the lines were of the 25 cent gumball variety. This was a movie I just wanted to end... soon. It could end with Mallory living it could end with her dying and I wouldn't care one way or the other... just end.