WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

VividSimon Simply Perfect

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Bezenby It's getting to the point where I really shouldn't watch anything with C. Thomas Howell (The Hitcher) in it, because invariably the film is going to be a big pile of garbage (see Dead Fire and The Shepherd). I thought with this one being shoe themed, and having famed shoe actor Jake Busey (or Jake Shoesy, as he's known) in it, The Hitcher's Shoe might be okay. I was wrong.We first see Jim Halsy (C. Thomas Howell, from the Hitcher), as a policeman/cobbler stopping a kidnapper and shooting him in order to retrieve a small kid and his shoes. Jim gets kicked off the force and ordered to hand in his badge and police issue boots, and he's also suffering from PTSD due to the events of the last film. His girlfriend/shoe designer/pilot thinks Jim needs a holiday, so they both set out wearing sandals to go and meet a cop from the last film, which involves driving cross country, but that's where hitchhikers are! Before long, they're passing a crashed RV with all shoes scattered everywhere, but Jim doesn't want to stop as his shoe senses are kicking off. A motorcycle zooms by and crashes (due to the driver not having the correct footwear), and Jim's missus convinces him to pick up the guy, who turns out to be toothsome Jake Busey (The Doc Marten Murders, High Heel Shoe Musical, and, inexplicably, playing the blonde chick out of Abba in Abba: The Movie).For no reason (other than he's got a Busey in his car), Jim has a flash-forward to Jake pulling a giant gun out of his shoe, freaks out, and throws Jake out of the car. Get this – in his vision, he even gets the make of Jake's gun correct! Turns out Jake is indeed totally insane and may even be the Hitcher from the first film reincarnated into the body of a thirty year old man, somehow. As Jim explains: "I don't know how, but it's him…I can tell from his shoes." What follows is…basically what happens in the first film, only terrible. A cat and mouse chase where Jake leaves all sorts of corpses (and shoes) everywhere and frames Jim and his wife for murder, loads of cops in boots chasing people about, a severed finger getting deep fried and two stand out scenes: one in a shoe warehouse and another where Jake and Jim's wife face off, jousting with long poles with shoes dangling off the end.The first Hitcher was a good, tight thriller with Rutger Hauer being all menacing and that. Jake Busey (from "There's a Narwhal In My Soup", "The Tiger that Sued The Vatican", and "ET 2: Extra Testicle") is just goofy. Goofier than Wings Hauser. That said, he's got some character, and I can't say that about See Thomas Howl (from "Carpet Sample Man", "The Arse Pincher" and Disney classic "Intergalatic Whelk Voids It's Bowels over Manhattan").Not even good bad, just bad bad. Shoes. Also: Tom Skerrit.

The apple man One of the worst movie ever. Period. That should be the title of the film. I haven't seen the original. But I saw the remake, which was still bad but not the worst thing ever. Anyway when you see a low-budget movie with bad actors, crappy shooting and boring action scenes you know that there is no real purpose of making such a film. Well though that's the case of the Hitcher 2, you start reading the ''directed by...'' at the end and then you ask yourself: what did I learn from this? Well nothing, nothing at all my friend. You just wasted your time seeing this crap.This movie is bad. Don't watch it. To avoid at all cost.

atinder The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003)I Really enjoyed the first movie was very good and I going to shock you by saying (But first, I did see this movie few ago and I did not remember to much about it!, I think I only saw bits and Pisces of the movie back then) I also really enjoyed this sequel.I was expecting something really bad but I found this movie very entertaining from start to end of the movie, there is a lot of action in this movie.I liked how they made some connection to the first movie as well and bring back Jim from first movie was good but i really shocked what happens to him in this movie however that make feel a bit more of sequel then total re-harsh of the first movie.I felt really warm to lead actress in this movie, she annoyed me first but she got my support afterwards.The hitchhiker in this movie was not as good as guy in first movie, he did not seem as scary because he was just little to goofy at times.The ending wasn't too bad but the effect at the end was really poor!6 out of 10.

Toronto85 The Hitcher 2 is the sequel to the hit 1986 original 'The Hitcher' where a young man Jim (C. Thomas Howell) picked up a hitchhiker who turned out to be psychotic. Part 2 is about the main character from the first (again played by Howell) going back to the same area where the events from the first took place in an attempt to move on from his trauma. He takes his girlfriend (Kari Wuhrer) with him on the trip where, once again, a hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be psychotic.When I picked this up, I was excited to see Howell reprise the role he had from the first. I was disappointed however when he was killed off in the first half hour. This movie is really about his girlfriend trying to fight off and kill the man (Jake Busey) who murdered Jim. Kari Wuhrer did a good job in the lead, but the character makes so many bad decisions throughout the movie all you can do is laugh at her.She picks up almost all of the weapons Busey uses to kill the cops and townsfolk which makes her the prime suspect. After a while, it got really tedious to watch her make the same mistakes over and over again. Yes, it happened in the original film, but it was really laughable in this one. Busey played a good "psycho", but wasn't as convincing as Rutger Hauer from the first.The ending leaves us hanging as we never really find out what his motive behind the killings are. Was he the son of the original Hitcher or was he a reincarnation of the first Hitcher? We never find out. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone except maybe horror completests. The first half is pretty good, but it falls apart from the middle right through to the end.4/10