GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Console best movie i've ever seen.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

jadavix "Road Games" is a classic Australian thriller, though its two key roles are played by American actors.Stacy Keach is a fantastic actor. How he has never been nominated for an Academy Award eludes me. He keeps the movie buoyant with his performance as the poetry quoting, eccentric truck driver Patrick Quid, who believes he may have seen the killer police are looking for, but then becomes a suspect himself.Jamie Lee Curtis is also great as usual, though her role is feels too small. She doesn't make her entrance until midway, and before then we meet another hitchhiker who adds little to the story. The plot could have been simplified.The beginning act, indeed, goes on a little too long for the thrills to really connect. It feels more like a road movie about Keach's character, which would have been fine. It is still a good thriller on top of everything else, and I was on the edge of my seat right at the end, but that was the first time in the movie I felt that way.Over all, "Road Games" is a classic Australian movie, but not quite as good a thriller.

froberts73 For me, this quirky little item came out of left field - and hit a home run. As has been oft pointed out, this is junior Hitchcock, and I think the master would have been impressed.The story, a mix of the familiar plus some very good new ideas, holds your attention. The Aussie outback scenery is most enjoyable and, of course, the acting is four-star.Jamie Lee looks so much better than she does on the tube hawking that yogurt, and Stacy Keach is always impressive. To digress: I spent the day with him and his brother, James, when they were in North Carolina's Outer Banks filming the Wright Brothers initial flight, exactly where it happened. It was for PBS and I'm not sure it was ever shown. A shame, too. The brothers were friendly - delightful company.Meanwhile, back in Australia and "Road Games." It is recommended for fans of suspense.The truck vs. van sequences were exciting. I always wonder, in scenes like those why there is no other traffic on the road. And, I wonder about the Aussies. The people in the store were nasty, the cops were nasty, Mel Gibson, in real life, is nasty.As for the Keach-Curtis flick, it is quite good and, by the way, the chemistry between the two was impressive. I picture them playing Monopoly between takes.

acidburn-10 The Plot = A truck driver (Stacy Keach) heading across Australia with his trusty dingo, along the way he comes across someone who may or may not be a serial killer, so he decides to do his own investigating to see what he can find out, which may cost him his life.Okay not a slasher movie technically, but a well paced thriller, but by all accounts this was marketed as a slasher and plus featuring scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis in an early role. This movie really puts me more in mind of that other road thriller movie Duel, plus with shades of an Alfred Hitchcock movie where the guy believes he saw a murder, but can't really prove it and is then sucked into a whole web of mystery. The whole flick basically takes place on the road and a few stops in towns, which makes things actually rather interesting considering it's not the usual setting for a flick.There's really only one star in this movie and that's Stacy Keach who plays the truck driver, he gives an excellent well rounded performance. Jamie Lee Curtis also does well with her little screen time, only wished that she was in it more, surprising considering her breakout roles in other 80's slashers (Halloween, Prom Night and Terror Train), but in my opinion she does a really good job here.Okay there's no blood or gore in this movie but I still found it enjoyable, maybe not to everyone's taste, but it's something different and I liked how it kept me wondering what was going to happen next and not be as predictable as many other "horror" films are.All in all a good watch if you're looking for something different and plus if you're a fan of Jamie Lee Curtis's horror movies, then you'll like this.

moonspinner55 Stacy Keach plays a truck driver Down Under, hauling frozen pig meat to Perth, who suspects a van-driving motorist of being the hitchhiker-killer being discussed on the news; unfortunately, he can't prove his theories to the police and, what's worse, the killer already has him half-framed for murder. Illogical, ridiculous Australian film from producer-director Richard Franklin, who also had a hand in the original story. A great deal of the narrative rests on Keach's chatty protagonist explaining everything he's thinking out loud--ostensibly to his dingo companion--which quickly grows tiresome, as does Brian May's WWII-styled score and a dramatic sequence undermined by an annoying car alarm. Advertised in the U.S. as a thriller, the picture barely makes the cut as a mystery. Jamie Lee Curtis, still somewhat awkward in her Scream Queen days, plays a politician's daughter who becomes involved--Keach calls her "Hitch", an homage to his hero, Alfred Hitchcock. *1/2 from ****