Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

GL84 Trying to get his life back on track, a troubled policeman and his girlfriend's cross-country trip to visit a friend results in another case of mistaken identity when another hitchhiker starts a cycle of violence involving him again and must try to help her stop him.This one wasn't all that bad and really had a lot of great parts to it. What really tends to make this one work is the call-backs to the original to make it seem like it's starting up all over again, from the opening rescue attempt that turns on his relationship found there and the different arguments they have at the beginning to show how he's still affected by it all, along with the actual reasoning for his trip to see his friend which manages to get them caught up in the whole scenario all over again. As the freak-out in the car after initially picking him up signifies, there's a subtle hint here about the returning sense of duty and action that are lifted from this one running out that kind of premise here again which manages to then follow through with the film's best elements in the continuous action throughout here. This one has a ton of high-quality scenes here from the encounter with the trucker that's a fun shoot-out, the car-chase through the desert and the big shootout at the ranch that's quite fun with cooperative police believing them but are forced into action with his clever trap to encourage them to go after the couple and continue the shootout, resulting in a fine escape attempt. Even more fun comes from the rather exciting and entertaining stalking attempts throughout the second half, which come from the escape attempt in the water-tower and eventual escape from the desert compound and leads into the series of cat-and- mouse stalking throughout the desert highway here, culminating with the utterly thrilling chase with the police where he's in the truck and she's commandeering the plane alongside which comes up with a spectacular finale that's bloody, action-packed and really makes for a grand time here. Combined with the bloody gore and kills here, these here are all more than enough to hold this up as a fine sequel with only a few small flaws. The biggest issue here is the fact that this one does tend to feel a lot more contrived here in merely bringing up the same situations as before without really being all that different, as this one tends to put them together once again out on a lonely road and stalked by a deranged hitchhiker who frames him for his rampage here without a whole lot of reasoning here simply to play off the paranoia of it happening again. This really could've done a lot of good here with the uncertainly of it happening again as he's wallowing in the paranoia of it all by thinking it rather than happening and then it turns out he's right all-along and rely on his past experiences to help them out, but the way this goes about simply repeating it doesn't off up much chance of sticking out all that much. Otherwise, this one wasn't all that bad and had some good parts to it.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

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.

ceej101 OK. I must preface by saying that I've had the pleasure of seeing THE HITCHER with the quietly menacing Rutger Hauer and the very thought of that film still sends chills down my spine. What ...drive alone on a fairly remote stretch of road where the only thing you're liable to run into are hungry buzzards? Sure! Why not? And while we're at it let's stop and pick up a psychopathic serial killer who just happens to be Rutger Hauer! What the hell! It's not as though you've just lowered your odds of surviving such an encounter ...right? OK..now let's make some lame substitutions for the killer and call him Jake Busey and while we're at let's throw in the pretty (but vacuous) )Kari .Wuhrerand there you have it: voilà! The not so spectacular THE HITCHER 2: I've Been Waiting! See how that works out? I myself have been waiting for a decent sequel and like so many others, I was lured in simply by seeing the name C. Thomas Howell attached to this movie so ...I'd thought I'd give it a shot. Silly me! Nothing in the way of chills here with Jake Busy flashing what I can only describe as a horsey grin and resembling his father more and more by the minute (OK...now I'm scared!).As for C.Thomas Howell his character was only there as a poorly written lead in( another much needed pay check for the financially beleaguered Howell, who at last check was being sued..blah blah blah). This movie is yet another reason why Hollywood should try coming up with something new instead of resting lazily on its laurels and yelling "sequel!sequel!". To try and retell or reinvent something as good as THE HITCHER is a downright travesty and an insult to the movie going public. I would strongly suggest that if you haven't seen the original with Rutger Hauer you should do so.

Jade "Hitcher II: I've been waiting" was kind of unnecessary but it wasn't all that bad. The acting isn't that bad. There are suspenseful moments that even are as good as the first film. However it is the exact same plot, with a little bit of tweaking. There is lots of action and a high body count, if that's what you're looking for. Gore levels are pretty low, though. And most important, although he couldn't touch Rutger Hauer's acting, the villain (Jake Busey) in Hitcher 2 was a good character. He is the reincarnation of John Ryder. Some people may say this is a cheap sequel but it is somehow entertaining, especially by today's expectations for DTV's. Another thing that was okay were flashbacks from the first movie, which worked well to use here.