Road Rage

I just finished watching it. Thought it was an ok movie. Jere Burns (I knew him as Kirk on Dear John) was pretty creepy. There was a lot of suspense and some might find it to be a good movie, but I really don't like creepy movies. It just felt like a movie that I've seen a hundred times already... nothing new.

My issues with this movie....

1.) Nobody gets THAT angry about being cut off, seriously. The movie is not even about road rage.

2.) Yasmine Bleeth files a restraining order against a guy she's never even laid eyes on, how will she know if he violates it?

3.) John Wesley Shipp sucked as her husband, he finds out the psycho was in their house and automatically accuses her of banging him.

4.) Alana Austin plays her new step-daughter. Would a newly married woman really care THAT much about someone else's kid? Psycho thinks so.

5.) Are cops really THAT naive? They buy Psycho's lies as facts, and disregard Bleeth's statements from the get go. Why?

I had to watch this just to see how the hell the writer summed it all up. Does Psycho die or go to jail? Stay tuned to Lifetime channel Saturday mornings. My God, I watched this whole movie.

I have seen some real cheesy made for tv movies in my time but this one really takes the cake. For one, why is it called ROAD RAGE? This movie is 80% about some sick guy obsessing over some chick that cut him off. I have to admit that I did get a nightmare after I watched this movie. It did freak me out a little. The movie was not horrible but it could have been better. With TV movies like Noah's Ark and Merlin standards should have been set.

The truck driver Eddie Madden (Jere Burns) loses his family in a car accident while driving leaving town on vacation. Some months later, he becomes a deranged man, and his boss waives his faults and keeps his job expecting for his complete recovery. When the real-state agent Ellen Carson (Yasmine Bleeth) accidentally cuts his truck off, Eddie threatens her with his vehicle. Ellen calls the 0800 and presents a complaint against his aggressive behavior in the traffic. Eddie is fired, finds her identity, and stalks Ellen, her husband Jim Carson (John Wesley Shipp) and her fifteen years old stepdaughter Cynthia Carson (Alana Austin), manipulating them and menacing their safety. Although having many clichés, a ham actor (John Wesley Shipp) and an actress completely miscast (Alana Austin), and lots of exaggeration in the plot, "Road Rage" is an efficient low-budget thriller. It is hard to believe the inefficiency of the police to arrest Eddie, or the lack of safety in the Carson's house, but anyway the story hooks the attention of the viewer until the last scene, mostly supported by the excellent performances of Yasmine Bleeth and Jere Burns. I saw this movie on VHS, I had the chance to repeat the scene and I noted the terrible edition of the car accident in the beginning of the film: there is a cut, when the red car stops, and in the next scene, it crashes Eddie's truck. See this movie without a great expectation, and the viewer may have a reasonably good surprise. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Pânico na Estrada" ("Panic in the Road")

Yasmine Bleeth has really played in a lot of thriller tv movies and all of them are kind of good. This one is maybe one of the best and it is about a madman who is after her to kill her,because she cut him off in traffic(really sick guy).The madman is excellent played by Jere Burns. Yasmine Bleeth is sexy as always and deliver decent performance.