This is a reimagination of the 1986 film of the same name. Back then it was Rutger Hauer hunting down C. Thomas Howell. This time around it is Sean Bean coming after a young couple played by Sophia Bush and Zachary Knighton.
The two ignore a guy with a broken down car standing by the side of the road in the pouring rain only to run after him again at the next rest stop. He is being all chummy and "I wouldn't have picked my up, either *chuckle*" and when he now asks for a ride to the nearest town the young man, guilt ridden, says yes. And really, he should have listen to his girlfriend, as she will remind him later.
The drive turns pretty ugly, pretty quickly and after the hitchhiker pulls a knife on them, they throw him out of the moving vehicle. They thought they were done with him but the very next day they are overtaken by a Christian family with two kids and see the culprit sitting in the back, playing with the young son. They pull up next to the car to warn them - which is never a good idea, because the people in the other car will think you are crazy and an oncoming vehicle will force you off the road.
Now the car is trashed and they have to walk and soon enough come across the family car with all but the badly injured father dead. They think they can save him and drive him (and the very bloody bodies) to the next diner to alert help. This all looks pretty bad, with the young couple all bloody and now their fingerprints all over the car.
They get taken into custody but the hitchhiker is not yet finished with them. He kills off everyone in the police station except for the two (no, I don't know what he wants with them, either) which they will also be suspected of doing. Only one cop has his doubts about their guilt and after a highway chase with multiple police fatalities it is pretty obvious who the bad guy is.
The hitchhiker is taken into custody after ripping apart (literally!) the young man with the help of two trucks only to cause the police car that is to transfer him to another location to crash, killing of that one sympathetic cop and gets offed by the woman, lone survivor of the string of tragedies.
The film is not as good as the 1980's one but Sean Bean is as evil a killer as Rutger Hauer was.
7/10
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