Stretch is a dumb dark comedy that wants to emulate Scorcese's After Hours or John Landis's Into the Night. Just like Landis, director Joe Carnahan packs his movie with a few cameos like Ray Liotta and David Hasselhoff.
Stretch (Patrick Wilson) is a wannabe actor in LA but reduced to driving a limo and heading to be burnt out. Life was good when he had a stunning girlfriend but she left him for some highly paid quarterback. Going back to gambling he has accumulated debts to his bookie which needs to be paid up once the debt is sold to some Mexican gangsters, he is losing high value clients to a rival and he picks up a crazed, drugged out passenger (Chris Pine) who is wanted by the police as he possesses ledgers that implicates some dangerous criminals.
The film zips along, people speak smart and funny, but it is not really smart or funny. When Pine said he was a fire starter he literally starts a fire in the next scene. The plot is rather stretched. Famous actors pop up here and there even for small roles and Stretch gets chided by a ghostly Ed Helms.
It is all a little sub Tarantino and the genre of a man having one crazy night is not entirely successful. I can understand why Universal got cold feet and released this on VOD.
Stretch (Patrick Wilson) is a wannabe actor in LA but reduced to driving a limo and heading to be burnt out. Life was good when he had a stunning girlfriend but she left him for some highly paid quarterback. Going back to gambling he has accumulated debts to his bookie which needs to be paid up once the debt is sold to some Mexican gangsters, he is losing high value clients to a rival and he picks up a crazed, drugged out passenger (Chris Pine) who is wanted by the police as he possesses ledgers that implicates some dangerous criminals.
The film zips along, people speak smart and funny, but it is not really smart or funny. When Pine said he was a fire starter he literally starts a fire in the next scene. The plot is rather stretched. Famous actors pop up here and there even for small roles and Stretch gets chided by a ghostly Ed Helms.
It is all a little sub Tarantino and the genre of a man having one crazy night is not entirely successful. I can understand why Universal got cold feet and released this on VOD.