Super Hybrid (2010)
7/10
A better-than-expected if somewhat flawed genre effort
27 July 2022
After arriving from a deadly crash, the staff at an auto repair yard become convinced one of the cars that arrived has evil tendencies when they start disappearing one by one and slowly realize it's possessed by a malevolent entity with a mind of its own and must try to get out of the building alive.

This was a pretty decent genre effort. What it gets right for the most part is the rather impressive work done on the main car which is a pretty impressive vehicle here. The idea of its shapeshifting abilities and the inhuman origins of the eventual creature provides a great reason for the different powers and attributes it possesses and the action to come quite well. Those scenes are highly impressive, giving a rather fun charge throughout here with the entire film resulting in a series of chases and encounters trying to take the creature down while constantly shifting into various cars and causing all kinds of damage and destruction in the various traps attempting to stop it that get foiled resulting in some solid setpieces throughout here. Given that this is all known quite early on with the revelation about what they're dealing with early enough to make for a rousing series of action scenes following this. On the whole, it's enough to make for a fun time here even though there are some big factors with this one. The main detriment here is the rather obvious self-censorship going on here due to the restricted rating present. There's very little actual on-screen death present here, relying more on trapping people inside the car and driving off which doesn't showcase anything special or graphic at all. That also comes into play with the other deaths here which are either edited into a way that makes it impossible to see what's going on or just not being that graphic in execution, to begin with, bringing up the idea that there's just not a whole lot of moments here for this to really boost up the rating and leaving this one feels quite tame and underwhelming as a result. The other detrimental issue here is the rather obnoxious and useless lead character that tries to take command of the situation but is shown to be utterly out of his element and expertise. Bullying and belittling his employees to the point of harassment, focuses exclusively on his own plans to escape and shooting down anything from anyone else until the point becomes that they outright rebel against him, and basically saying anything else not suggested by him is doomed to fail, it's quite hard to believe they would follow him as long as they do. As well, the idiotic idea of trying to capture it enabled the whole nightmare to unfurl putting them in danger solely due to his rather unfeasible solution to trap it based on what he had just witnessed the car performing so it's rather offputting. Overall, these are its main drawbacks.

Rated PG-13: Violence and Language.
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