Big driver - 2014

When I started watching it I had no idea it was taken from a Stephen King's story, I had simply stopped on a random channel where a random film was about to start. I saw normal women and successful, beautiful writer Tess Thorne (Maria Bello) but it was matter of seconds and I was on the right track. Tess laments exhausting hours driving, and Ramona (Ann Dowd) suggests a shortcut. Yeah, right, and we know where shortcuts lead in American movies, don't we? Exactly.
Tess accepts the suggestion and takes the shortcut, but when she's deep in, she finds pieces of wood with big nails in them on the road and gets a flat tire. She stops hoping someone would stop and help her. Obviously there is no cell signal. A big big man in a truck stops and offers to help, but then he turns on her. The Big Driver was the one that had caused her flat tire, and now he takes her by the throat and assaults her. He brutally rapes her, strangles her and dumps her body where he had dumped the bodies of the other girls he had previously raped and killed, but Tess in not dead. Slowly she regains consciousness and escapes, walks for a while then cleans herself in a public toilet then enters a convenience store to call for a car with driver to take her home (not a taxi). She calls neither police or doctors, she's afraid to be blamed for it, but is still afraid. Slowly she regains strength and sets out for revenge. All the time she talks to Doreen, a character from her books of detective grandmas, and to Tom, her Gps navigator, switched off. She realized that Ramona could have been in on it, and she goes to her house. Upon seeing her startled expression, surprised to see her alive, Tess understands she was right. Ramona is Big Driver's mother, and when she's able to get the gun from Tess she confesses, but in the struggle Tess stabs her with a knife in the stomach and then shoots her. Tess then tries to find Big Driver. She had asked about him to Betsy (Joan Jett), a waitress who had called her after finding her car with her bag and documents, who had told her of the rape she suffered when she was but 12. Tess finds Big Driver and follows him. She immediately shoots when she sees him coming out of his truck, only to realize it wasn't him but his "little" brother. At first she thinks she has shot and killed an innocent man, but then she finds pictures that explain how he was part of it, he was outside when she was being raped, taking pictures. What a family, huh?
She hears noices, it's Big Driver working, and she sneaks behind him but waits for him to turn. She's able to shoot him once, but she has no more bullets so she runs outside and when he follows after her she strucks his head with one of the same woods-full-of-nails he used on the road, then slowly reloads her gun, enjoying the moment, and shoots him in the groin, killing him, then she goes home.
She has no intention of going to the police, but somehow they find the bodies of the other women: it's not clear to me if she sets them on the right track or if they got there on their own. Maybe she sent an anonymous tip.
She's now satisfied of her revenge, justice has been done, and if they should ever get to her she's ready to accept the consequences, but she won't go to them voluntarily.
She's now writing a new book when she receives a phone call: "I know what you did. You go, girl" and recognizes Betsy's voice, but immediately Betsy hangs up. The end.
I could clearly see King's atmosphere in all the voices that she kept hearing, King's characters often have their head full of voices. Maria Bello did a good job because the whole movie was on her, the camera was constantly on her face, so it was not an easy part, but she did it good. The movie is, however, not a favourite of mine, although not a bad one either.