2017 · thriller · action · mystery
Overdrive
Directed by Antonio Negret1h 33m2017
Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.
Our read: Overdrive (2017) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded thriller · action · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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“You want sun-soaked French Riviera car-heist fluff with pretty people and fast metal.”
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