Wheelman (2017)

Redundant and unnecessary.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I was really disappointed on how the movie ended but overall it's really good

This is one of my favorite films of the last few years. The film feels even shorter than it is because it's so engrossing. Frank Grillo is very believable and sympathetic as the film's anti-hero. The plot is full of tension and is never predictable. I must admit that I'm a sucker for any movie with a realistic car chase or two, so this was a perfect fit for me. This is the kind of film I was hoping to see when I saw Baby Driver and Drive. I found none of the characters in those films particularly interesting, and the car chases were disappointing. The chases in Baby Driver were unrealistic, and the ones in Drive were too short and too infrequent. Wheelman feels more like a Mad Max: Fury Road set in present day New York. I loved it and highly recommend it!

This is probably more of a 6-star movie, but I had to bump it up a star considering that 99% of the movie is shot in the car, and a lot of that involves Wheelman talking on the phone, yet it never gets boring. From the first few minutes your interest is sparked and the rest of the movie is a thrill ride. There is a lot of profanity which I usually am not a fan of, but considering the storyline here, it didn't bother me. I do think the daughter could've been cast better, but Frank Grillo did an amazing job. I felt his panic. Wheelman doesn't try too hard, yet still has great action sequences and stylish camera shots. A pleasant surprise of a movie.

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.