Oh boy...
Initially I had a gnawing idea about what I was getting myself into here with this movie, but still I decided to give it a chance. After all, it did have iconic horror name Kane Hodder on the billing list.
The story in "Exit 33" is almost next to non-existing. People stop by the Last Chance Gas to fuel up, and if the store keeper gets an approving nod from a little kid, the people end up dead. Yeah, that's right! And apparently the gas station owner is seeing the ghost of his dead wife as well. People disappear and get killed, their cars are put away, but no one comes around looking for them. And that is pretty much it.
Suffering from a horrendous screenplay, "Exit 33" does little to captivate, spellbound or otherwise keep you nailed to the screen. The movie takes forever to go nowhere, and it tells you very little on the long way there. And a lot of the dialogue is half-hearted and forced, which doesn't exactly add to spice up the interest for the movie.
I didn't have high hopes for this movie, but wow, I was disappointed still. The movie looks like a really low budget filmed movie. It just doesn't have that film-touch to it, so you know that it is really made by people with love for the industry, and not just something that you or I could make with our own cameras at home.
The cast in the movie, was, well for lack of better words, uninspiring. There weren't any real good performances here, some even put on performances that you didn't buy into, not even for a moment. Kane Hodder did manage to make the movie watchable and bearable, but do not expect a major performance here, not even from him. Personally I enjoyed his work in the "Friday the 13th" movies tremendously, and have seen a great deal of his work since then, but nothing ever lived up to "Friday the 13th". So don't get your hopes up.
One of the best things about "Exit 33" was when you saw Kane Hodder sit around with a Fangoria magazine and reading it, and it had Jason X on the front page and he said "this is supposed to be scary" (or something like that).
"Exit 33" is not a movie I will be returning to again for a second watching. It was tough enough to get through it the first time.
