Curve (2015)

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

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.

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.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

In the scene where the deputy stopped to help Christian, you could hear over the police radio, "suspect Mallory height, weight"...etc. Suspect in what? Did I miss something?

I admit not expecting much; but I was surprised with this thriller. A bit slow starting out and then an intended car crash turns things upside down. Mallory (Jullianne Hough) is a young bride-to-be on her way to Denver and contemplating the pros and cons of her upcoming marriage, when she has car troubles taking the scenic route. She gets help from a charming hitchhiker named Christian (Teddy Sears), who out of the blue becomes a naughty guy causing Mallory to wreck her car on purpose with hopes of escaping the man. The nice looking young woman becomes trapped upside down in the overturned vehicle and Christian turns into a full blown terrorizing psychopath. Tense, white knuckle fear. The story line is a bit contrived, but Miss Hough successfully pulls this together. And Sears is a very good villain.

Do not expect anything surprising out of this movie. It is so full of clichés that the whole movie could be predicted correctly from the first ten minutes. I gave it a 4/10 because it does waste time when you're bored and have nothing else to watch. 3/4 of the movie is the same scene with the girl's leg stuck in a crashed car and the "bad guy" torturing her. There is little character development or reasoning behind the killings of the "bad guy." The only thing you know about the protagonist is that she is going to see her fiancé in Denver, CO coming from San Francisco, LA when, surprisingly enough, her car breaks down. It's not bad but it's kind of boring to watch.

Sun-kissed, breath-taking landscape, stunning young blond lady meets hunky hitch-hiker who, within seconds, has removed his shirt, and the finger is hovering precariously over the off button. But any worries this may be Baywatch soon dissipate.Mallory (Julianne Hough) is driving around the Grand Canyon, when her car breaks down. Christian (Teddy Sears) helps out, and she gives him a lift to the motel where he is staying. Christian's transformation into perversity and psychotic evil is initially nonthreatening in the extreme, but the power of Sears' performance is a slow-burner. His slow, methodical taunting of Mallory is sadistic and measured, underlining the fact he likes to be in complete control of the situation - especially when Mallory deliberately crashes the car and becomes trapped inside, while Christian is free and happy to leave her to suffer.As time goes on, the punishing imprisonment means many demeaning moments for Mallory, but just as luck seems to reach an all-time low, she might just be alright. Well, of course she's alright. Not only that, but she saves her aggressor's other victims, holed up in the motel – and sees off Christian as well. And that's after 48 hours trapped upside down in a car.Stretching credibility as it does, this nevertheless has some tense and harrowing moments, and the acting is excellent throughout – especially as the bulk of the film is essentially a two-hander.