2014 · action · comedy · crime
Drive Hard
Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith1h 36m2014
A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.
Our read: Drive Hard (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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