WHEELMAN feels very much like somebody saw LOCKE and decided to make their own version of that film, albeit in a thriller context with more car chases and the like. This is a small-scale story starring the consistently interesting Frank Grillo as a driver mixed up with various shady characters. Much of the story plays out from the interior of his car, but said story turns out to be quite unremarkable, the usual mix of drugs, money, kidnapping, and small-time hoodlums. I didn't think much of the script, which is all mindless profanity, while the action never really gets going and there are too many cliches at the end of the day. I much preferred DRIVE which tells a similar tale in a much more powerful way.
Review of Wheelman
