The Driver (2019) User Reviews

This was downright horrible...

[paul_haakonsen · 3/10 · 27 November 2019]

Oh dear lord... That is essentially all that is needed to summarize this 2019 'action' movie starring Mark Dacascos from writer and director Wych Kaosayananda.

When I sat down to watch this movie it was solely because of it having Mark Dacascos in the lead role. But it didn't take me long into the movie to realize that this was going to be a suckfest. And it was. Oh, how it was.

Now, the movie is listed as action. No, this isn't really an action movie. It is sort of a movie that tries to accommodate a heap of genres, which included action, horror, drama and thriller, but ultimately failed to deliver on any of them. And the movie turned out to be a scrambled heap of a muddled mess that didn't prove to be overly entertaining or enjoyable.

Initially I was a little bit thrilled when I saw zombies, but then I noticed the make-up on the zombies and the way that they were moving, and my excitement quickly vanished. This movie may have zombies in it, but I wouldn't really characterize the movie as being a zombie movie per se.

The storyline in "The Driver" was, and pardon me for being perfectly blunt here, pointless. It was ridiculously slow paced and it served next to no purpose, which meant that the movie trotted on in an atrocious pace and offered very, very little for the audience to enjoy.

And the characters in the movie were mundane, one-dimensional cardboard cutouts with no personalities or features. And you didn't even invest an ounce of interest in the characters or what happened to them.

The scene where Dacascos was sitting alone in the car towards the end was so painstakingly prolonged, and it became cringeworthy to watch. Especially because it seemed to drag on forever and ever.

This movie is bad, quite bad. And even the title serves the actual storyline or plot no purpose.

I am rating "The Driver" three out of ten stars solely based on the production level of the movie and because it did have Mark Dacascos in it after all.

But do yourself a favor, even if you are a fan of Dacascos, and stay well clear of this stinker. It simply just isn't worth your time, money or effort.

Second movie of 2

[frennchie · 5/10 · 8 June 2021]

This is the second movie of 2, but the release dates don't match that. The first one is called "Paradise Z" or Dead Earth or Two of us. I actually enjoyed both movies, but this one more. They are not great movies, totally low budget and it shows. But I did really enjoy them. If you don't want to watch a low budget movie, this is definitely not for you. I watch lots of them as I watch more zombie movies then most people have any idea there are. So this will be more my speed then most peoples.

'B' movie is a complement for this one

[FixedYourEnding · 3/10 · 12 March 2020]

Sometime you have to endure such a horrible movie just to realize how good other movies are. I'm not sure if to applaud the director for filming this in under 2 weeks and under $1M or to scold him for creating such a stinker of garbage.

This movie is bad start to finish, and I mean BAD. Where to start? camera action- insulting, zombie makeup - horrible, zombie acting and movement - laughable. Action scene - lets say even the guns don't look real. Dialog - cringey at best. Setup and scenery - ridiculous. Mark Dacascos is not a bad actor but with the editing and bad dialogue there is not much you can do.

Adding insult to injury is the horrible story line, it is down-right boring. I had to stop myself many times from giving up watching just based on boredom alone. Oh yes, and if you call a movie "the driver" can you have him drive faster than 40 MPH at some point? That car was so out-of-place it looked like it was picked up for the weekend for some local car dealership, maybe they didn't have insurance on it so they had to drive it slow at all times?

In any event - stay clear of this stinker. My loss is your gain- watch something else. Exact score: 28 / 100

Fooled by fake reviews

[pipo- · 1/10 · 4 January 2020]

What feels like 1 hour in due to the slow movement and horrible directing and acting , and cheesy dialog, I still see opening credits going, I knew this was gonna be bad, waited another agonizing 10 minutes which felt like 14 hours, yes park the car and clean it, I can assume bmw funded this or provided free car, but after that still no driving hmm, boring slow motion shots of him walking down hall for 10 minutes, super closeups I mean wtf is the camera man obsessed with him or just doesn't know how to use the zoom.

fast forwarded it even gets worse, driving scenes are projector types (you know what they used in old movies), daughter cant act.... shut it off

waste of time. avoid.

Horrible all around

[ashleyoliverrowell · 1/10 · 26 November 2019]

Dialogue must've been written by a five-year-old... they clearly also made the set and props. It's a disaster. It's boring. It's delivered by robots. Camera is oddly constantly doing closeups of MC's chin, ears, and the wife's spider mascara lashes. There's no reason for the catalyst to the MCs moving.... like the "bad guys" break in to the homemade fort to just let the zombies run amuck, not steal or takeover... just so they can all be ate by said zombies. Nonsense.

Dreadful

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 12 June 2021]

A dreadful zombie film made in Thailand and starring a newly reinvigorated Mark Dacascos, fresh from success in JOHN WICK 3. This one starts off as more of an action thriller with Dacascos pulling some martial arts moves on various bad guys intent on storming his jungle compound. Later a horde of zombies shows up, attracted by the chaos, and Dacascos switches to taking his family to a place of safety. It's badly directed and poorly written, with dodgy acting and unconvincing zombies throughout...why bother?

Don't watch this. You're welcome.

[jongsnyder · 1/10 · 29 April 2020]

This movie is one of the worst I've seen. It's like a group of college students had to put it together for a school project. The only decent thing about it is the main actor but he has nothing to go off of. Save yourself the time and money. Don't watch.

Horrible

[bontskeo-05841 · 1/10 · 9 January 2020]

Most horrible movie of 2019. I am sure a lot could have been done with a 1.3million Budget

The Driver, more like Traffic Jam.

[dawgsfan92 · 1/10 · 5 December 2019]

Mark Ducascos is literally the only saving grace in this waste of time, horribly acted, stale, boring, and overall asinine thing they call a, "movie." After coming off of his John Wick 3 starring role, I'm really surprised and ashamed that Mark is in this! Don't even waste your time or money on this. Even diehard Ducascos fans will be disappointed.

WTF did i just watch ??? the director got confused of Genre for this film

[nikola17 · 1/10 · 8 December 2019]

For Die Hard fans of Mark Dacascos please avoid this crap pointless film of all time I was so confused of this title because film is called the Driver doesn't sound like a survival zombie film, nothing like i am omega starting Mark Dacascos that come out like 2007. I Am Omega fits that Genre in that film came out 2008 Starting Mark Dacascos film that's a zombie apocalypse film is heaps way better then this crap, and that title i am omega sounds like horror zombie survival film, but the Driver ??? when you see poster and you see title in sametime you think it's like if Mark Dacascos play's a getaway driver, he is character like Jason Statham as in Transporter or Ryan Gosling film Drive (2011) see that film fits in perfectly because this title is freaking title is like action film sounds like action film the Driver but it's a horror film ??? i think director got everything mixed up with titles because this film could be a different title a different Genre if it's going to be a horror survival horror film, not the Driver it sounds like action film not a horror film, hell it's like me directing Fast and Furious but not in a action film Genre it's a mixed horror with zombies ?? this film imagine it's a stupid combination film of Drive mixed with Walking Dead. so Mark Dacascos plays a Driver in a zombie film ?? this all story and title and his character is written in a wrong movie. this could been titled a horror film title and different character for Mark Dacascos role. i thought this film was pointless, cheap, waste of time and very stupid and it doesn't feel like a zombie survival film at all. and writing and directing whoever made this film got everything mixed up calling this horror zombie Survival flick the Driver ??? i think director Wych Kaosayananda got confused of title witch it sounds like action film, he got Mark Dacascos role written in a wrong film because the character how he plays in this role is like Ryan Gosling role in Drive as in Driver ??? jeez Wych Kaosayananda known for the movies he made, let's go threw this resume he did Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever that got one of worst films ever, Angels he worked with Gary Daniels twice, Tekken 2 Kazuya's Revenge god that was worst film i ever seen in my life, what's even worse 2 Guns: Zero Tolerance Wych worked with Scott Adkins wasted his role in that film and worked with Dustin Nguyen twice as well, then after in 4 years with that Zero Tolerance is done, he did this piece of crap, pointless, dumb, confusing title, with a stupid genre. this film could of been a action movie like Transporter, like Drive (2011) flick. I hoped for the smallest glimpse of his movie "Drive" style or Transporter but no it had to with horror zombie film witch it went with glimpse of Drive mixed with Walking Dead style it didn't need to and it was stupid combination

most confusing thing ever The Driver (Mark Dacacos) he used to be Assassin that he gets payed for killing people so what is he ? a Assassin or a Getaway driver ? pick one the writing of film is so confusing ?? why is this called the Driver ? is it because of his character or is it director got confused what genre of film.

story follows the Driver (Mark Dacascos) who still does his own job to kill people and help people as well, then he had a wife and his 12-year-old daughter Bree (Noelani Dacascos) then the land they stay in is out of control, all zombies and betrayal people got in killed everyone at village

so Driver toke takes daughter on run with him now the all film is that it's him driving with her teaching her how to shoot, and kill zombies. oh yeah the director or writers has completely ripped off Walking Dead like where it was located and the way how Zombies are attracted to noise but it doesn't matter if this film had better director, better writers then i would still not care if Mark Dacascos was in a zombie flick but with this film it's a lot of problems threw out the all film was useless and pointless waste of Mark Dacascos role, believe when you get to the end of film you will never like it at all. Especially because

it seemed to drag on forever and ever. Mark Dacascos has some fight scenes not best but he had something to do in action kicking people ass, shooting zombies, driving a nice looking BMW car. look if you watch another B grade film called I Am Omega starting with Mark Dacascos that has him in a better lead role and also not just that you have him kicking ass, him shooting zombies, and Mark has nun chucks beats the crap out of zombies, that was awesome fight scenes in that film but with this it's nothing at all their weren't much action or horror at all how in earth this got 5.2 ???? really in this nonsense genre film that got confused with title or character into a horror film witch title the Driver sounds like action film jeez, but no i am omega is 3.3 for NO reason sadly enough i would kick this film out of earth, how i earth does Mark Dacascos choose to be in this, Mark needs to start to picking right role movies. and yeah i know i am taking this seriously but at least i liked a lot B Grade, direct to DVD films but with this ?? nope but i liked I Am Omega 2007 direct-to-DVD film that was produced by The Asylum, if this was produced in Asylum this would get a lot of hates and yes i know Asylum made junk of crap but at least I Am Omega is worth watching then this crap. It was ridiculously slow paced film like you wanna skip the film and it served next to no purpose to which meant that the movie trotted on in an stupid genre of film. we have a stupid pointless twist you will never like, i don't blame Mark Dacascos i would say it's director or writers who have messed up with this film, believe if you one of those people who would be curious about Mark Dacascos like your die hard fan best to not see this film at all, believe it's nothing like another style of I am Omega if you hated it, you will hate this film a lot more. oh yeah i liked i am omega but this film was pointless. 1/10 pointless flick ever made avoid this 5 cents crap, i hope this director never directs a movie ever again and stay away from any of action stars and Mark Dacascos.

Love Mark Dacascos

[GentlemanTraveler · 10/10 · 5 December 2019]

What a great film to see Mark really perform. Also love that Gabriel character.

A Wannabe

[hassankasem · 6/10 · 8 December 2019]

Have you watched the short fim Cargo? This is an attempt to make an extended, different version of the same plot! My advice, watch the original.

Weak plot, and prescribed dialougue.

[masevooxx · 1/10 · 5 December 2019]

Seemed as if they were doing a live performance play, a bunch of kindargaten kids with zombie halloween costumes, a bmw and a hd.

Because you never let me drive

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 30 November 2019]

The Driver (Mark Dacascos) also goes by the name "Daddy" as in "Kick-A$$." The compound where his family lives got overran by bandits and zombies in about the second or third year of the apocalypse. Daddy drives his 12-year-old daughter Bree (Noelani Dacascos) north in a BMW in hopes of locating the mythical "Haven." (Note "Eden" has already been taken.) The twist is that our tite character has been bitten and has a finite amount of time to transition his daughter from unicorns to being able to drive and kill. Filmed in Thailand.

Zombies are attracted to noise. Good time to own a Tesla or even a Prius. Much of the film is about two people driving in a car. We have seen these escape to safety zombie films before. They encounter zombies or bandits at every stop. It was pretty much to ask a 12-year-old to carry a zombie film.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Dead on average

[staunton-gary · 5/10 · 2 September 2020]

Average movie, story, acting. Nothing outstanding, however, I did feel for the daughter. Watchable if nothing else available.

What a waste of time...

[ruud-je · 1/10 · 1 December 2019]

The only good thing was the car they used. Just a very very bad movie.

*Spoiler** I hoped for the smallest glimpse of his movie "Drive" style action :(

[ajx8141 · 2/10 · 1 December 2019]

He's known for his fighting which is what drew me to skim though most of this film. The fact I didn't see anything but using guns just made the all around experience worse. He belongs along side Jason Statham with his martial art skill. This was too low budget to make Mark shine. I'm sure it was a quick straight to dvd payday though.

Used car trip

[kevincraigmagic · 3/10 · 29 December 2020]

This could have been so much more.

The whole zombie apocalypse theme has been over used in so many Fims now. This could have taken it to a new place but no.

The acting is mediocre at best which is surprising given the main leads.

The action doesn't really start until your 40 minutes in then your lead to believe it's going to pick up the pace and become an action packed, road rage fuelled thriller/horror, but no! It meanders along and then fizzled out like a car with an empty tank.

If I had paid full price I would have been even more upset but for £1.99 GBP it was a road trip like any other.

Terrible Terrible Terrible

[brendanhk · 1/10 · 11 July 2021]

Waste of time Don't bother Plot is predictable Acting is horrible The film is flat, boring and lacks any originality The director is a talentless hack He's makes one stinker after another.

I loved ...

[RosanaBotafogo · 9/10 · 16 May 2020]

An excellent Thai film about zombies, considering the low budget, the film is really very good... And it brings the beautiful Mark Dacascos acting alongside his wife and daughter, equally beautiful, which makes it more relevant and engaging, fun and with the participation of unicorns, how not to love so much cuteness in one film ... I loved ...

An emotional Journey, that's his and hers

[jackwolff-06457 · 7/10 · 3 December 2019]

I feel if you watch this movie as more of a drama you'll enjoy it more. The beginning of the movie actually has some really good action and fight scenes and shoot outs, that you would want from Mark dacascos. Essentially, it's two movies. After the first half, I kind of felt like most movies would of ended it there. But the movie changes to this kind of road trip movie where the characters grow together. I think if they would have drawn out the first half then people would be pleased with the movie but by taking a risk and going with more of a story about how the characters deal emotionally with being in an zombie apocalypse. I think some people might be put off with the tonal shift. The movie is more about the relationships with a little bit of action sprinkled in here and there. Reminds me of one of those double packs titled his and hers. In an attempt to make everyone happy the director makes you sit through some stuff that might not be your cup of tea. If you only want coffee.

Not bad for a budget of only 1.3Mill

[cyan1320 · 7/10 · 2 December 2019]

Not too many new zombie movies lately. So not much to pick in the genre. Is it a great movie. No. It's decent enough tough. Especially for one with only a budget of 1.3 million. Good enough to watch on Netflix

Perfect Snow Day movie

[hassankasem · 6/10 · 8 December 2019]

I was expecting an action packed movie. However, this film is clearly trying to capetelize on the Walking Dead mania with weak acting & dialogue. It's perfect for a lazy snow day, with nothing to do except a few glasses of wine & some kind Bud.