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Wheelman takes B-movie action lovers on an uncommonly smooth ride, with taut plotting and exciting action topped off with solid work from Frank Grillo in the title role. A getaway driver is double ...
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Oct 20, 2017 · Wheelman. You can’t blame genre directors for trying to mix things up now and then, experiment with a new approach, see where it goes. Unfortunately, for this viewer, the formal constraint foisted upon him by writer/director Jeremy Rush in “Wheelman” went right up his nose and stayed there, resulting in a little less than 90 minutes of ...
Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 19, 2017. Wheelman probably works better as a technical exercise than the white-knuckle thriller it aspires to be, but those eager to watch another The ...
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By William Bibbiani
Posted: Oct 19, 2017 9:00 pm
Wheelman premieres exclusively on Netflix on October 20.
Frank Grillo gets behind the wheel of a car, and for most of Jeremy Rush’s Wheelman, he never leaves. But this isn’t another low budget, one-location character study like Steven Knight’s Locke. Wheelman is Locke with a Glock, a high-concept car chase action-thriller that takes place mostly inside of a getaway car, for better and sometimes worse.
The driver, known only as Wheelman (Grillo), is working a run-of-the-mill bank job when, right after his passengers start pulling the heist, he gets a mysterious phone call, ordering him to steal the money. The thieves are going to kill him, or so he’s been told, so he waits until the cash is in the trunk and then he takes off, no longer knowing who to trust.
Wheelman calls his handler, he calls his wife, he calls his daughter, he calls the mysterious voice that got him in this mess in the first place. He calls a heck of lot of people over the course of writer/director Jeremy Rush’s film. It’s a pretty economical way to make a low-budget action movie, devoting most the running time to dialogue that sounds important. But after a while it feels like we’re just watching a radio play. Or worse, like we’re watching Frank Grillo listen to a radio play.
The selling point of Wheelman, the idea of a car chase movie that takes place almost entirely within a car, makes Jeremy Rush’s film novel but it also makes it rattle a bit. Wheelman’s strengths and failings are the direct result of its very concept, making it an interesting and sometimes exciting experiment, but not an altogether successful one.
- William Bibbiani
Sep 29, 2017 · Film Review: ‘Wheelman’. Jeremy Rush's fast-paced neo-noir thriller is a perfect-fit star vehicle for Frank Grillo. It’s difficult to avoid catchphrases like “stripped for speed” and ...
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 88% based on 25 reviews, and an average rating of 6.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, " Wheelman takes B-movie action lovers on an uncommonly smooth ride, with taut plotting and exciting action topped off with solid work from Frank Grillo in the title role."
Oct 20, 2017 · Wheelman: Directed by Jeremy Rush. With Frank Grillo, Caitlin Carmichael, Garret Dillahunt, Shea Whigham. A getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.
