YMMV / Joy Ride 3: Roadkill

• Ass Pull: When Rusty's truck is shoved into a car crusher with him inside, and it seems that he is finally killed. However, the next morning, police officers find only the truck in the crusher without a sign of Rusty's body. The issues with this are myriad: the camera showed Rusty struggling in the truck moments before it was firmly compacted inside, the main character was watching the only side of the truck he could logically have exited through, Rusty was hit by a car moments before and presumably wounded, the finishing blow (the crane's claw being dropped onto the raised section of the truck and smashing it to splinters) visibly happened before Rusty could escape, and both surviving protagonists clearly spent the rest of the night in front of the junkyard's single viable entrance with the cops canvasing the area shortly thereafter. Perhaps most unbelievably of all, the final scene shows Rusty walking calmly along the road, bearing no sign of even the most minor injury - not even a limp from being struck and flipped by a speeding car.
• Complete Monster: The trucker "Rusty Nail", unlike his original counterpart, is portrayed as a cruel, sadistic Serial Killer, who targets his victims with little to no provocation. Opening the second film murdering a prostitute he lured into his truck, Rusty spends the movie chasing down a group of friends who stole his car; his deeds include having a woman strip on camera; ripping the jaw off a bystander trying to help his captive; and maiming and torturing two victims in a sadistic game of dice, impaling the loser through the head. In the third film, Rusty takes a couple of junkies and forces them to play a "game", which gets them pulled under his truck on the highway. Picking off a race crew who cut him off on the road, Rusty forces one victim's hand and face through his engine fan clutch; kills a cop; and forces the crew to listen to their friend getting his head slowly crushed for getting them involved. Rusty forces a man to fight him head on under the promise of freeing his girlfriend, only to reveal he already killed her and was playing her screams on a recording.
• One-Scene Wonder: Barry, the Conspiracy Theorist trucker who vainly warns the protagonists about the dangers of traveling Rusty’s favorite section of highway, milks his one scene for all it is worth.

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