Review of Burn Out

Burn Out (I) (2017)
4/10
Plot was lacking
26 March 2019
Warning: Spoilers
So one of the reviewers got half of the siutation right. The plot makes little sense. Why does he have a 2 hour limit? Why does he need to speed if he is trying to not attract attention? Why would you run the same stretch of highway over and over again? Why don't the police just wait there for him next time? All of these questions means the plot makes almost no sense.

Or the fact he decides to do all this smuggling for $50,000. Or the fact that it takes 2 whole months of smuggling to make $50,000. Does anyone even care about $50k that much? Why was the lady hiding drugs in the first place? If they are no longer together why is he helping her? If she was only hiding $50k worth of drugs she couldn't have been getting paid much!

In general it made no sense why he was so tired and hopped up on pills. If he only worked part time and did the driving 2 hours a few days a week should not be a huge hindrance. Or the fact that all the extra driving should make him a better driver on the track not worse. Also the coaches personality made no sense. He went from being a caring come join our team, to in the next scene being the Asian parent who says he is never good enough and needs to do BETTER and just being flat out cruel. Then we never get the explanation for if he was fired from the team and the coach fell off the face of the earth halfway through the movie.

At the end after he saves the day and rescues the woman and defeats the bad guy (who didn't decide to be bad until the end) and he throws away all the character progression by continuing to break the law and go out on his motorcycle even though this was the whole reason the woman left him in the first place. It also doesn't make sense how he has a race bike and somehow police in little European turd boxes catch up to him. If you decide to not question the plot at all and just go with the flow the movie is a fun and exciting waste of time and thus 4 stars.
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