I wasn't particularly impressed with the 2006 movie "Rest Stop", after having sat down not too long ago to watch it, so I was in no particular hurry to watch the 2008 movie "Rest Stop: Don't Look Back". But I mustered up and sat down to get it over with, you know, like yanking off a bandage from a deep wound.
The storyline in "Rest Stop: Don't Look Back", as written by John Shiban, was a fine mess of a scrambled heap of an inconsistent one if there ever was one. The narrative made little sense, and there were plot holes so big that I am sure the city depart of roads were ready to roll out and cover them up. I especially enjoyed how the brother named Jesse could just manage to disappear from a moving vehicle at a blink of an eye, but even more impressive was the fact that his brother didn't even go looking for him. I could go on with the lazy writing and plot holes here, but it is so bad that you have to watch it yourself to take it all in.
Was it the same actors and actresses from the 2006 movie? I don't know. Nor do I really care. Because both movies were subpar entertainment. But at least I can check them off of my watched-movies-list.
Visually, then "Rest Stop: Don't Look Back" has a little bit of gore and visceral mayhem, but nowhere enough to make up for all the shortcomings of the movie.
This is by no means a movie that will ever grace my screen a second time. Nor is it a movie that I would recommend horror fans to waste their time, money or effort on. But hey, having a sequel as bad as the predecessor must count for something, huh?
My rating of director Shawn Papazian's 2008 movie "Rest Stop: Don't Look Back" lands on a generous four out of ten stars.
The storyline in "Rest Stop: Don't Look Back", as written by John Shiban, was a fine mess of a scrambled heap of an inconsistent one if there ever was one. The narrative made little sense, and there were plot holes so big that I am sure the city depart of roads were ready to roll out and cover them up. I especially enjoyed how the brother named Jesse could just manage to disappear from a moving vehicle at a blink of an eye, but even more impressive was the fact that his brother didn't even go looking for him. I could go on with the lazy writing and plot holes here, but it is so bad that you have to watch it yourself to take it all in.
Was it the same actors and actresses from the 2006 movie? I don't know. Nor do I really care. Because both movies were subpar entertainment. But at least I can check them off of my watched-movies-list.
Visually, then "Rest Stop: Don't Look Back" has a little bit of gore and visceral mayhem, but nowhere enough to make up for all the shortcomings of the movie.
This is by no means a movie that will ever grace my screen a second time. Nor is it a movie that I would recommend horror fans to waste their time, money or effort on. But hey, having a sequel as bad as the predecessor must count for something, huh?
My rating of director Shawn Papazian's 2008 movie "Rest Stop: Don't Look Back" lands on a generous four out of ten stars.