there something go on in this film direct by x file scribe john shiban that have elude me . you get that feeling a the film move that everything be not what it seem and yet i feel the movie fail at give you enough to go on to truly care afterward . it about perception . there be character the heroine nicole ( jaimie alexander ) meet in the film that she talk to that up and vanish . this might seem like a spoiler and but it something that really only inherit a wee bit of focus on the filmmaker part . they seem to be poke fun at u a we watch curious at whether we should trust what nicole be see or not . it never get a proper answer and i for one be a bit clueless at the point . there come a time in a film when ambiguity can just be frustrate because the viewer be lead on a wild goose chase that end at a dead end with little explanation at what we just saw . it ultimately feel like an exhaust exercise instead of a thrill psycho drama . now there nothing wrong with ambiguity itself and but give u something to latch onto or you will evade u . that how i felt a i watch rest stop . this film be supposedly about a young woman name nicole who decide to run off to california with lover jesse ( joey mendicino ) to make it big in hollywood . they make what be suppose to be a slight detour at a rest stop so that nicole can pee and but it descend into terror for her when she find that her jesse be completely miss . someone in a crusty and dusty yellow truck be a nut job who seem to be cause a lot of trouble to nicole and we soon realize that he be behind jesse disappearance when thing start to occur and sign provide to her if you will and she will have to find a way out of a very difficult situation . nicole be far from any exist town and with limited resource to defend herself against a maniac who provide her with some strong evidence of how evil he can be . that the easy part . when a female character come into play and the film make a really bizarre leap from logic a we be not sure where she ever come from and how she get there and and more importantly where she go once nicole try to break her free from her suppose prison in the restroom utility cabinet . she meet another and a police officer in the area ( joey lawrence ) and who might seem like her savior and but when he too be a victim of the truck driver startle thing occur again that question if he be ever actually even there to begin with . the truck driver commit torturous act to nicole ( like hole her up in the restroom and a she try to untie a wire that the killer have wrap around the door lock and she receive a nasty bite from him ) . he then set fire to the restroom leave her without a lasting place of refuge from the beast . it the timing of the truck driver attack that have me listless . perhaps he just like torment her and but he appropriately appear in certain situation where nicole have time to flee or prepare . it doesn not make much sense and his motif and which propel the film into an illogical idea . why do he make himself so obvious . why do he allow her to prepare . it seem and i be go out on a limb here and that he like have his quarry believe they can find a way of escape only to stomp that hope out when he come up with his next grisly attack . yet and why do shiban decide to play with the viewer by have nicole experience odd meeting with people that do not exist . what be shiban and the writing team try to say . and and to cap off the film unhinged weirdness be a family in a rv . they play a small part in the scheme of thing a religious bigot themselves and but the film doesn not do enough for the viewer to explain why they should be in this film at all .