I found this film on Prime Video having never heard of it and I'll probably forget about it pretty quickly.
I was hoping for something more polished than what I found, something funnier, something cleverly crafted.
The first thing that jumped out was the location, a toll booth, but where and for what ?. A small transportable office dropped in the middle of nowhere. It looked like a disused airstrip. My mind is instantly preoccupied with what's the toll booth for ?, since toll roads are extremely rare. Then a character shows up in a top down convertible on a cold and gloomy looking day. Then another convertible classic car shows up. Later a classic Bentley makes an appearance as if we're watching Minder from the 80s. Budget wasted on out of place cars.
The creators are desperately trying to make a Guy Richie film but deliver a Shane Richie panto.
Throw in a couple of idiot comic relief characters with lines that scream "this is the funny bit, laugh now".
Poor Michael Smiley deserves better than this nonsense.
A cop is seen driving with a blue flashing light inside her car and this sums up the lack of effort they went to to make any of this believable.
The "twist' at the end is as curved the abandoned runway used as the location.
1 star for Smiley. 2 for the scenery and the rest goes to the film makers.
Tell me this was a college project and I'll re-rate it with more sympathy.
I was hoping for something more polished than what I found, something funnier, something cleverly crafted.
The first thing that jumped out was the location, a toll booth, but where and for what ?. A small transportable office dropped in the middle of nowhere. It looked like a disused airstrip. My mind is instantly preoccupied with what's the toll booth for ?, since toll roads are extremely rare. Then a character shows up in a top down convertible on a cold and gloomy looking day. Then another convertible classic car shows up. Later a classic Bentley makes an appearance as if we're watching Minder from the 80s. Budget wasted on out of place cars.
The creators are desperately trying to make a Guy Richie film but deliver a Shane Richie panto.
Throw in a couple of idiot comic relief characters with lines that scream "this is the funny bit, laugh now".
Poor Michael Smiley deserves better than this nonsense.
A cop is seen driving with a blue flashing light inside her car and this sums up the lack of effort they went to to make any of this believable.
The "twist' at the end is as curved the abandoned runway used as the location.
1 star for Smiley. 2 for the scenery and the rest goes to the film makers.
Tell me this was a college project and I'll re-rate it with more sympathy.