It's like an ordinary but very modern teenager adventure. The leading girl is only 16 but works as a car mechanic and knows well how to drive a car, especially without a licence. She uses that car all through the film without a driver's licence, and no one ever checks her. She goes off with a friend of hers, who is scared out of her wits for anything she encounters out in the wilderness of nature, and all she wants is to get out of there, while her brother joins the ride uninvited, so they are sure asking for trouble and get enough of it for a lifetime, making some love on the way and discovering the truth of some weird ancestry, meeting both her father and grandfather, who is an AA sponsor. Well, it's an ordinary complicated family affair all twisted up and gradually getting all blown up. The main theme of the film is some problems with some local power cuts, that seem to spread across the continent, and these poor innocent youths just happen to get at the heart of a nasty sabotage plot to scare the s*** out of the whole country. Will it succeed? Well, it certainly doesn't scare the s*** out of the audience, who will rather yawn until the bitter but eagerly expected end. There is some great nature scenery out of Ohio (not West Virginia although the action is supposed to take place there,) and the music is decorative enough, but the script suffers from a very poor dialog, like in most American films mainly using.common vulgar profanity words to fill up the dialog. Recommended only for teenagers.
