2/5 a hit and miss thriller . . .
  by trebe
Director Edna McCallion's Hit and Run (2009) provides some thrills, but there is only a remote semblance of a credible plot. The writers have some interesting ideas, but do not tie them together very well. If having a sensible story matters, then you may be disappointed.

On her way home after a night featuring some drinking, Mary Murdock (Laura Breckenridge) swerves off the road, and bumps along through some trees. A little shaken, but apparently unhurt, Mary heads home. Later, hearing something in the garage, she is shocked to discover a body impaled on her bumper. Mary wants to help, but when the man grabs her, she panics and beats him with a golf club until he stops moving.

Believing him dead, she hauls the body into the woods, and in a heavy rain, manages to bury it in a shallow muddy grave. The victim is Timothy Emser (Kevin Corrigan), a teacher who is bipolar, and has been reported as missing. Riddled with guilt, Mary confesses the deed to her boyfriend Rick (Christopher Shand) who is surprised, but willing to help her cover up. When she decides to return to the grave to retrieve some incriminating evidence, she makes a grim discovery, and her world spins further out of control. Things go completely off the charts, when Emser attacks Mary at home, chewing off part of her ear, and apparently stabbing her a couple of times. Mary feels the wind in her face, as Emser checks in at home to see his worried wife (Megan Anderson), before heading out on the road one final time.

Laura Breckenridge's performance is quite good, making the most of a script with many logical flaws, and an ending that is a physical impossibility. What Mary does is fairly understandable, although she has a strange fetish about repairing her bumper. After surviving the ordeal, instead of getting her wounds treated, she goes to get her Jeep fixed.

Besides having a superhuman will to live, and burning desire for revenge, Emser must have a great sense of direction. Although gravely injured, he is still able move, track Mary back to her home, and then attack. With incredible stamina, the guy is also apparently a hell of a sprinter.

Although delivering some scares, Hit And Run scores low marks for believability, and is definitely a lightweight entry in the horror genre. If that's not an issue, then it probably rates at least a rental.

5/5 Loved this movie!
  by Chris (Missouri, USA)
I watch alot of horror movies & just loved Hit and Run. Kept my interest on wanting to see what was going to happen next. I rented this movie then had to come to Amazon to buy it. I highly recommend this movie!

2/5 generic start... clever climax... stupid finish
  by Geminiguy (Bloomington, IN)
Films such as this and Stuck, which this film seems to borrow heavily from, have a difficult task laid out before them. They have to make the viewer feel for the heroines' when they have gotten behind the wheel after too much to drink and hit someone. While Mary of this film seems likeable, once she made the mistake of getting behind the wheel, my concern for her was pancaked. Fortunately, her ridiculous choice was slightly redeemed after the man she hit turns out to be quite unhinged. This is not to say that it is good she hit the man... it isn't... and most everything that happened in the film could be blamed on her reckless habits.
So, what starts out as a rather generic genre piece is rescued after she discovers that the man she thought she killed is actually not dead and he serves up a bit of frightening revenge. How, I don't want to reveal... but it was quite diabolical even if it really didn't really follow through with its promise of a gory finish.
And then it had that ending... which was ok but not great when featured with the violent turbulence beforehand. So, to sum up... a ho-hum begining, a wicked third act, and a dim conclusion... nothing to write home about.

2/5 Take a Detour Around this One
  by R. Schultz (Chicago)
This film starts out with an interesting premise. In fact, its premise might almost have allowed it to advertise itself as being "based on a true story." There was the actual case of a woman who plowed into a man with her car, then let him die slowly impaled on her hood over a period of hours. This incident could have been the inspiration for a really good story of ghastly, ghostly revenge.

However, "Hit and Run" doesn't permit itself to gather any momentum from this promising material for horror. After the first half hour or so of suspense, it just runs downhill and degenerates into a rather mindless gore-fest. What's more, a lot of the acting is amateurish. And the boyfriend in the plot is scripted as such a totally unlikable lout, it's impossible to care what happens to him.

So all in all, I suggest you pass this one and leave it in your dust.

3/5 The last guy you ever want to Hit then Run
  by Dayna Newman (Tampa)
"Hit and Run" was very reminiscent of the movie "Stuck"..Stuck being much more clever but Hit and Run being more chilling in that the guy the girl hits with her car becomes very freaky looking and downright terrifying the further into the story you get.
What happens is a semi drunk girl hits a guy with her car unbeknownst to her on her way home from a bar and he winds up stuck to her bumper in her garage looking like he's half dead blood gurgling from his mouth and just plain TORE UP..
She goes inside to call 911 but hangs up thinking she will get into trouble because she had been drinking so she goes back to the garage to tell him she is going to try and help him and he lunges for her clawing at her still attached to the front bumper.
She panics and whacks him with a golf club.
Next think you know she pulls him off his impalement on the bumper and buries him in a shallow grave.Next her boyfriend gets involved with not so nice consequences and lets just say that the man she hit has a history of mental problems and sems impossible to kill .. the 2 play cat and mouse for what makes quite a thrilling and in my opinion pretty scary little horror film .