The Toll

POSITIVES…

  • Provocative premise about a rideshare that I think a lot of women are always worried about. I would say, anybody would be concerned about. 

  • You know what text message you don’t want to have to send? "Are you up? This driver is f***ing terrifying." Great way to start a thriller right? 

  • Oh, but driving through a dark middle of nowhere forest, that’s where things get really terrifying. 

  • Solid direction of creepy visuals and scares to keep you on the edge. Making you wonder what’s going to happen next. 

  • Good work by Jordan Hayes and Max Topplin as Cami and Spencer respectively, for effectively carrying this movie. 

  • It can be fascinating observing how some people might act in this kind of predicament as presented here. 

  • There’s this big exposition sequence in the middle of the movie that’s welcome to see, and essentially tells us what the thematic lesson is supposed to be. 

  • Add this to stories that might scare you enough to not take ride shares.

NEGATIVES…

  • That thematic lesson is unfortunately kinda superficially handled though. 

  • Prepare to yell at the screen when the characters decide to do things that you would not agree with. 

  • Yeah, there are some plot decisions that can be frustrating to watch. 

  • Even at only 80 minutes long, it still manages to feel too long for this story. I think it would have been a great scary short film though. A short film you would have caught on YouTube.

  • Some might not be satisfied with how the story concludes.

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