I like the tone and the vibe of this thing. But it's massively flawed.
SPOILERS FOLLOW:
The biggest problem is the ending. The story trips and stumbles a few times on the way there but the movie completely gives up on trying to make sense in the last ten minutes. The Rachel Griffiths character kills the young hero and the guy who was a bit too wild. Meanwhile she knows all the time that it's the driver who ripped her off and she pays him and lets him go. Why? Who knows. The movie makes no attempt to justify this.
As soon as she lets him go she sends her other henchman to hunt him down, even though nobody would think that would be easy. Miraculously the henchman finds the driver and they fight and the driver wins. He then calls the police and only says that the younger character is dead. No information that would lead to either his body or Rachel so why is that useful? What sort of ending is that? What is he going to do? Where is he going to go? He's even more lost than at the start of the movie.
The direction is also problematic. Way too many shots of the gun in the glovebox. Characters talk and shout in ways that don't feel natural. Repeated shots of the same text message! And whose phone sends them sequential messages when they get close to their destination?
I'm pretty skeptical that the very high scoring reviews here are authentic.
SPOILERS FOLLOW:
The biggest problem is the ending. The story trips and stumbles a few times on the way there but the movie completely gives up on trying to make sense in the last ten minutes. The Rachel Griffiths character kills the young hero and the guy who was a bit too wild. Meanwhile she knows all the time that it's the driver who ripped her off and she pays him and lets him go. Why? Who knows. The movie makes no attempt to justify this.
As soon as she lets him go she sends her other henchman to hunt him down, even though nobody would think that would be easy. Miraculously the henchman finds the driver and they fight and the driver wins. He then calls the police and only says that the younger character is dead. No information that would lead to either his body or Rachel so why is that useful? What sort of ending is that? What is he going to do? Where is he going to go? He's even more lost than at the start of the movie.
The direction is also problematic. Way too many shots of the gun in the glovebox. Characters talk and shout in ways that don't feel natural. Repeated shots of the same text message! And whose phone sends them sequential messages when they get close to their destination?
I'm pretty skeptical that the very high scoring reviews here are authentic.