Hit and Run (2009)

Acting is horrific, there is no real storyline and no suspense at all. Hard to understand why there are so many good reviews for it as all I saw was a B movie that I could have probably done a better job of myself. Again, I cannot reiterate enough - the acting is awful!

**SPOILERS**This movie sucked. There are so many positive reviews that I expected to like it despite the low IMDb rating of 4.7.After a night of drinking, Mary (Laura Breckenridge) unknowingly runs over Timothy Esmer (Kevin Corrigan) in her Jeep. When she gets home, she sees the Esmer stuck to the front of her car and out of fear for the repercussions she tries to cover it up. Mary is painted as the bad guy. You kind of feel sorry for her even; though she runs over a guy while she's drunk, and tries to cover it up instead of manning up and taking responsibility. She tells Rick (Christopher Shand), her boyfriend, and they begin to concoct a plan to cover up her crime. Unfortunately, the best idea they can come up with is to just ignore it and hope it just goes away.She drives Esmer out to the woods to dispose of, but he's still alive and seeks vengeance. After 25 minutes of Mary trying to come to terms with her questionable actions, Esmer comes back and starts trolling her. He kills Rick, and then he stabs Mary a few times in her garage before tying her to the front of her own Jeep and going on a joy ride. Who am I supposed to be rooting for here?After the joyride, Esmer takes her back to his own house, killing a gas station attendant on the way. Then he kills his wife when she tries to set Mary free. Esmer then drives Mary out to the woods to bury her alive, but Mary blinds him and knocks him out before escaping and driving away in her car.When Esmer miraculously reappears out of thin air on the road a few miles ahead (literally one minute later), she runs over him (again) in her Jeep. The next morning she drives to a body shop and asks a mechanic to fix her car, whereupon they find the mangled body of Esmer stuck to the bottom of her Jeep and she gets arrested.Here's how that situation would play out. The police would investigate and find the body of Esmer's Wife at his house, with Esmer's fingerprints on the murder weapon. There would be CCTV footage from the gas station showing him killing the attendant while she was strapped to the car. She'll be able to tell them where Rick's body is, and with the evidence stacked towards Esmer, she'll probably get off scot-free!Esmer apparently does all this because he's bipolar which (according to the writers of this straight to video movie) means he can be a nice as pie teacher who sings nursery rhymes with young kids one minute, and a psychopathic killer the next!I have no idea why this movie is rated an 18. I was promised gore.. There's no gore. A bit of blood thrown about the place and an eye stabbing does not equal gore. Even when he kills his wife, you don't see it. The killing is off camera and then it cuts to his missus with a set of sheers stuck in her spine! And the blood dripping out of the phone... That's a face palm right there. There was no reason for it at all and only served to make the movie even more stupid.The characters aren't compelling, it's not clear who the antagonist is supposed to be, and there are so many plot holes you can see right through it. In short, it has none of the qualities that make a good movie.The action sequences are dull; and the quick changing, unconventional camera angles are disorienting. You'd expect more from a $3.5m budget, and I wonder what that budget actually went on because the cameras used were obviously not very good, and there aren't many locations used. A house, a body shop, and the woods. The images are grainy and lacklustre, as if the entire movie was filmed with a Go Pro! There's no colour in any of the scenes.There are many other movies that had a smaller budget to work with and look many times better than Hit & Run. Rob Zombies: Halloween for instance had less than 10% of the budget this movie had and looks much better. Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson had less than that and looks even better! Paranormal Activity looks better than this and Paranormal Activity's budget was less than $20k!If you really need to watch it, then watch it. But I personally wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone.1 K out of 10.

Based on a popular urban legend, and told with irritating scene transitions, stupid camera angles, and unnecessary fancy editing, Hit and Run tells of Mary Murdock (Laura Breckenridge), a sexy college student who, after a drunken night out, runs down a virtually psychotic bipolar kindergarten teacher who doesn't take kindly to being turned into a hood ornament for her SUV.I don't know whether Hit and Run is a tongue-in-cheek attempt at tackling a formulaic premise by taking matters to the extreme, or whether the director was actually trying to make a seriously scary horror. Your guess is as good as mine.If director Enda McCallion was aiming to be as outrageously daft as possible, logic be damned, then his film just doesn't go far enough to make his intentions clear. The majority of the action is so dumb that one can only presume that McCallion is having a laugh at our expense, but then there's the bits seemingly played straight that leave a nagging doubt at the back of the mind... perhaps this is actually meant to frighten us as opposed to making us laugh.Thank heavens then for gorgeous star Breckenridge, who makes the whole sorry thing bearable, no matter how awful it gets; she may be asked to perform some pretty stupid stuff, her character clearly in short supply of brain cells, but she does so in a really tight vest, gets rained on a lot, and is frequently splashed with blood and mud. I don't know about you, but a hot girl in tight wet clothes with her cleavage constantly on display goes a long way to making any film more bearable.

Man I was watching this and I was thinking is that Kevin Corrigan from grounded for life?? Holy cow. He has the most gnarly teeth ever. That dental work was out of control dude. All yellow and jaggedly. That hit/run car crash really left him disfigured bad. He looks like one of the zombie guys who escaped from night of the living deads. Weird performance too. He keeps whispering incoherently and then raising his voice, with a savage kind of ferocity, totally into his role. I'd say, possessed like. I never seen Corrigan playing this kind of "villain" so that was bizarre. A 'departure' for him, no pun intended. Although his role is not that huge and you can barely tell it's him, this could be worth a look see esp if you're a Corrigan fan and want to see him in something different.