A bickering Italian couple on vacation in the Southwestern United States gains an unwanted traveling companion in a bank robber carrying two million dollars.
No. I kid you not. That is the plot. Dragged out for over an hour and forty minutes of unrelenting tedium.
The core of the problem with Hitch-Hike is no characters the audience can give a damn about. Franco Nero (Django) is hateful as the husband while Corinne Cléry (Moonraker) as the wife is long-suffering but ultimately brings nothing sympathetic to this pairing that has all the chemistry of Frankenstein's monster and his bride. Add David Hess bringing all the charm of his Krug character from the crassic and overrated Last House on the Left to this mix and a seemingly unending, droll road trip and it begs for screaming "are we there yet?" at the screen voluminously.
The actors is ths do a fine job and the direction does not linger, but unfortunately this story with no destination does. It's 100 minutes of unpleasant characters, and 80 minutes past the point I just wished they would all die.
Just in case I need to say it, I do not recommend this movie.
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