Out like a light after 60 minutes is more like it. Wow, is this ever a boring effort, especially for an action movie. The plot is a run-of-the-mill routine about a retired car thief (the best who ever was, naturally) who has to return to a life of crime in order to save his kid brother from car hoods. The script seems like it must have been cut and pasted from other movies, inasmuch as it’s an uninspiring parade of macho posturing and implausible plot twists. However, I admit that I was pretty much guaranteed to hate this movie. Why somebody who dislikes long, loud car chase sequences as much as I do would ever go see a car theft movie is, I admit in retrospect, beyond me. Wish I’d skipped it
[In the interest of full disclosure, I should admit that this film allegedly inspired a small wave of copycat crimes among the dimmer members of the audience, and my wife and I suffered more than $1000 worth of damage to our cars as a result of a badly-bungled theft attempt shortly after the film’s release. However, I seriously question the causal link between the movie and the crimes, and in any event I tend to blame the would-be thief rather than the film (though I recognize that I’m bucking a trend by insisting on personal responsibility). So I gave the picture the bad review I thought it earned on its own merits – or lack of same – rather than as the result of a grudge.]
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