Review of Vehicle 19 (2013) by Matthew S — 04 Feb 2015

(56%).

Even for someone who thinks that the "Fast and the furious" movies are good harmless fun, which is an opinion I share, I still came into this one with low expectations. Not knowing anything about this beforehand, I had in mind a bland, overly familiar action flick that I'll unlikely hate, but will get nothing from and will forget about within ten minutes or so after watching. But really I thought this was fairly decent. After watching the film "Locke" a few months back this is like the Hollywood action version, which as it turns out is no bad thing. The plot is far fetched, but then so is Die hard's, as the late Paul Walker finds himself in a foreign city as things really start to go from bad to worse. I like the way it's almost completely set inside a car, and for most of the time you can only see the outside when it is reflected from a window, meaning you do feel like you're coming along for the ride every step of the way. And yes, the plot isn't logical, and there is a touch too much shaky cam at times, but it's not enough to ruin this enjoyable and entertaining little B-movie.