We join the story in a flashback to a different girl who is covered in blood, staggering along a dirt road, being pursued by a man in a police car who stops when she falls to the ground, gives her a gun, offering her a 'last chance' before heading back to his car which he uses to forcefully put an end to her misery! Then we arrive at present-day and petty criminal girl Bobbie, who is driving her car long-distance. She keeps getting phone calls from her boyfriend and sister, but shrugs them off, wanting to be alone and left to escape her chaotic life.
She stops for petrol and whilst there, a cop (the same one as from the flashback) creeps around her, behaving suspiciously, flexing his power as a cop to make her respect him and, basically, acknowledge that she needs to not behave like the smart-arsed, over-confident independent girl she is, but toe the line - after all, he is a Sheriff, not 'officer'. He lets her go but pursues her devilishly, stopping her for speeding, then trumping up some ludicrous allegations and slapping a huge fine on her which he knows she can't pay.
This continues for a while. She starts to realise that this cop is actually a bit of a fruit-loop and tries to evade him. She ends up in roadside cafe where she gets a young waitress fired by her actions, then offers her a lift home in her car. The cop is still lurking around, behaving badly, and this is where things turn from nasty and suspicious into sinister, dark and outrageous - as the thriller shifts up a gear for the audience and down a lot of gears for poor Bobbie!
The cast, like the director/writer is somewhat inexperienced - TV work for some of them, the veteran, if there is one, being John Schwab (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Zero Dark Thirty) as Sheriff Bilstein. Bobbie is played Britni Camacho and Amy, the waitress, by Sydney Brumfield. Camacho is the star of the show, in pretty much every scene, and pulls it off pretty well. Schwab turns from Mr Nasty to Mr Nice Guy to Mr Fruit-Loop somewhat convincingly and Brumfield, who isn't in it for long, does a fair job.
It's a fairly mindless road-movie/survival-thriller relying, like Wolf Creek, on the bonkers behaviour of a man around unsuspecting victims - but at least in the latter, there was some attempt at an explanation as to why what was going on, was so! Here, not so much - more simply a sadistic thrill-ride, if this is your thing! It runs for just over an hour and a half and there are a few scenes that are a bit gory, so beware, but not that many.
The setting might be more likely the star of the show with some creative close-focus cinematography. The landscape is barren, dry and hot - which has been shot nicely. There are a few plot holes, one big one at the end which I couldn't work out at all (nor find out about it online anywhere), but this is more about atmosphere, suspense and a growing anxiety as the audience gets alongside Bobbie - the only character really who is in any way developed throughout. I enjoyed it anyway and you can too as it's available via various streaming outlets if you fancy the genre.
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