Watch The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting For Free

That was an excellent one.

The acting in this movie is really good.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Unwarranted film is another reason sequels suck. What's worse is our leading man Howell dies in the middle, where sexy Wuhner is left to carry the movie off, no easy task given the material she has to work with. After Howell dies, while protecting girlfriend Wuhner, the movie sours. The story's just the same. A double whammy for Howell's character who made the mistake of picking up Hauer in the first. The movie's set fifteen years later. Howell mentions at the start that he's a cop to a little a boy, (this sounds so phoney and overdone) giving him reassurance, after saving him from a kidnapping, where at first Howell getting sloshed in the rain, has a dark look, you actually think he's the bad guy. His girlfriend owns an aerial spraying business, with Howell flying the planes. That terrible incident, who he's never mentioned to his girl, is still eating him up inside, and this has been affecting his police work. At the advice of old Captain Esteridge, after Howell seeks help from him, again overacted, thus not believable, him and Wuhner return to the territory where it happened to finally face his demons. They travel in one of their planes, commuting to a pick up spot to obtain a waiting car. There's a real nasty dust storm ahead. To Howell's disapproval, another standing figure, thumbing it, is picked by Wuhner, so you know what follows, madness, and mayhem, plus some real grisly violence if in respect to the violence in the original. As with so many unnecessary remakes of late, and some of it's sequels, this is a teaching tool to why films should stop at the original, or in the minority case where the sequels are good, they should draw the line at number two. The wacko they pick up is Busey, another one that overacts some, but it's relevant to his nutball character, that he puts energy and vim into it, giving a half creepy performance, but he's no Rutger. He does tend to get bloody annoying, but I'm glad he did this. Again what dampened this movie, and made me a dark sight angry, as being an avid fan of the first, was Howell's departure. He way overacts, another example having him, threatening Busey to get out of his vehicle, where he then tells Howell to seek psychiatric help. Even his girl, doesn't believe this hitchhiker's a psycho, where he's reliving this hell all over again, his death, may'be a better option to rid himself of this mental burden he's got. Howell too, seems to be playing a different character. Busey's such an over the top psycho, he even chops his finger off, putting the blame on Wuhner, that again has the cops thinking she's the baddie, filling Howell's shoes as it were in the original. Like the arid surrounds, this is what the film becomes. It's climax of Busey being pulled apart while strapped to a tanker is even foiled. Awful, hey. But so is the movie.

Suspenseful and violent. C. Thomas Howell plays Jim Halsey, a cop recently dismissed for his roughness and advised to take a break and get away. Jim and his girlfriend Maggie(Kari Wuher)fly to west Texas to see one of Jim's mentors. The couple are rolling down the same rural highway that Jim suffered trauma as a child. He has flashbacks of his being kidnapped and rescued on this same lonely highway; and it can get lonely in west Texas. A hitchhiker named Jack(Jake Busey)causes grave suspicions in Jim's mind, but Maggie convinces him to lighten up and give the hitcher a ride. Mistake; this guy is a sadistic psycho hell bent on continuing his serial killing. Most of the time nothing makes a lot of sense. The violence kicks into higher gear during the final ten minutes; but this movie just doesn't seem to have a whole lot to brag about. Filmed entirely in Canada; and this will have my friends in Midland out searching for more rugged and elevated terrain.

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

the main problem i found with this movie is it is not original,whereas the first one was.there is lots of action and some excitement and a pretty high body count,but there is very little in the way of gore.in my mind ,most of the kills were lame.i like the fact that the heroine is a woman,and she a pretty strong character.the movie felt much liter in tone the the first one.it was sort of missing that scenes of foreboding.also,there are not any real scenes of peril or suspense.i do think the movie was entertaining,and the villain was not a bad character,although it would be hard to beat Rutger Hauer"s portrayal of the psycho in the fist movie.when all is said and done,i'd have to give "The Hitcher 2" 7/10