[Hit and Run]
Plot:Mary Murdock is a college student, who thinks she's hit and killed a cat with her car driving home drunk from a party. She is horrified beyond words when she gets home and discovers a man's nearly dead body impaled on the bumper of her Jeep. Terrified and irrational, Mary is faced with a series of decisions that determine her fate.

Cast:Laura Breckenridge, Kevin Corrigan, Christopher Shand, Joe Hansard, Nitin Adsul.

My Thoughts:When will these silly kids learn.

Review:After "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Stuck", and various other vehicular homicide horror movies, a very important lesson should be out in the open by now. Which is...when you mow someone down with your car, call the cops and report it! Here in 2009, we have another horror film about gross irresponsibility called "Hit and Run". The film deals with a college student named Mary Murdock (Breckenridge), who drives home from a party wasted as fuck basically. Once she gets home, she hears moaning sounds and such.

Turns out she's run over some poor nameless guy, and he's glued to here bumper. She tries to help him, but he gets a bit too close for comfort (basically waves at ehr angrily a few times, wouldn't you have also?), so she decides to beat him dead and then bury him in a ditch wrapped in a blanket. Charming no? She then has problems coping with what she's just done, especially after she sees the guys wife on the news pleading for his safe return. So she decides to call up her boyfriend and get laid. In between all of this she tries to get ehr bumper fixed, and her mom hassles her about picking up some parrots from the airport.

Mary eventually breaks her evil deed to her boyfriend, and being that this movie is written by someone with limited creative talent, the boyfriend pretty much says "fuck it, he's dead, forget about it, lets go out for dinner." But Mary for some reason can't seem to let it go, and when the buried dude returns from the dead to seek revenge...she's really in for it. Don't get me wrong however, this isn't a supernatural horror film, but instead a pissed-off-guy-out for-revenge film, like I said above.....similar to "I Know What You Did Last Summer".

I didn't like this film for alot of reasons, and it goes beyond the lack of empathy the lead female had for the dude she ran over. Obviously hot chicks think they can get away with pretty much anything these days, and as usual in films like these there's a psycho who shows up to remind them that uh...."no, you can't young lady, sorry." But this movie sucks for the simple fact that it's plot is so paper thin, and without any meat on the bone...we're forced to watch a character we don't care about for close to 90 minutes.

Forget about the fact that Breckenridge, for her decent looks.....can't act. And the scares don't come fast enough, in fact, they don't come at all. The only part of this movie even remotely creepy is when Breckenridges chracter returns home and finds that the parrots she picked up have learned some new words which she did not teach them. An ominous sign that "someone"...has been at her place. Someone who ain't her boyfriend. But there are so many opportunities this film has to scare the crap out of the viewer, and it blows them all. I couldn't believe two people joined forces to create this screenplay. Boggles the mind I tell you.

"Hit and Run" is filled with alot of flashy editing, but it's all glitz and no real glamour. Glitzy girl, who drives a glitzy jeep, and lives in a semi-glitzy house. But beyond that, the movie is hella boring, and our thought-to-be-dead friend is the worst psycho I've ever seen. The writers try and get clever at the end, blurring the lines between him being out for revenge, and just being a bad guy all together, but that doesn't work considering the motives for his behavior -- and a few scenes earlier in the movie which make one wonder how a person can be described as a caring, loving, father and become hell on legs in a total about face moment.

The ending is a great ending, and so finally we find a silver lining in this movie. The ending is ironic and perfect, and the final scene finally gives the viewer something to cheer and clap for. But is it worth sitting through 80 painful minutes for? Nah. Seriiously...nah. "Hit and Run" is simply a "Miss" and not a "Hit", so your best bet if you see it at the video store would be to....."Run."

Positives:Breckenridge is decent looking, the final scene is classic.

Negatives:A boring 90%+ of the film, Breckenridge isn't that great acting wise, a story thin on much and heavy on nothing, a poorly written twist in reference to the hit and run victim.

Overall:One star out of four.





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