Greetings all,
I would’ve posted this last night but I got home rather late, so I’ve decided to post it now instead. Today we are once again looking at two films, one of which you might have never heard of, and one which you might want to pretend you’ve never heard of. So as always, lets start with the first one shall we?
Turbo Kid
Plot Summary - In the post apocalyptic future of 1997, a lone kid (Munro Chambers) is forcefully befriended by a girl named Apple (Laurence Leboeuf). When she gets kidnapped by Skeletron (Edwin Wright) and brought before the warlord Zeus (Michael Ironside), they escape with the help of local hero Frederic (Aaron Jeffery) and find themselves on the run through the wasteland.
Pros - Laurence Leboeuf as Apple is the stand out in my mind as the overly friendly apple. She brings such great levels of energy and sweetness to the character that she genuinely grew on me. The rest of the cast is also pretty solid, finding the perfect level of balance between seriousness and humour in their characters. The writing and directing are both solid, as while the story does kind of feel mad max like, it manages to find its own spin on the post apocalyptic.
Cons - They use the classic “oh im dead but not really” thing way too many times for my liking, plus despite it’s intention to be one, the ending still comes off as way too much of a bummer.
Final Score - 8/10
So yeah, turbo kid for the most part is pretty solid. if you’re a fan of retro futuristic 80’s love letters, check it out.
The Transporter Refueled
Plot Summary - Frank Martin (Ed Skrein) is a getaway driver for hire living on the french riviera. While his dad Frank Martin Senior (Ray Stevenson) retires and stays with him for a few days, the transporter gets a call for a job from Anna (Loan Chabanol) and gets him to drive. But when they need further assistance, Anna and her gang kidnap his father in order to keep him around.
Pros - Ray Stevenson is pretty funny as Frank Martin senior and there is one pretty awesome sequence that has Junior basically ghost riding his car while he beats up a bunch of guys.
Cons - There’s two major ways this movie could’ve been done much better, either by having Jason Statham come back, or instead of a transporter movie, have be solely about Anna and her gang taking down their pimp overlord which spoiler alert by the way. But with what we have here my god it’s fucking stupid. In the opening scene they show when the villain and his goonies took over the riviera, but then not even twenty minutes later we see them in the present day, and then they needlessly cut back to the opening scene to show us who they are. My first thought was literally well no fucking duh its those guys otherwise why would you show them? this movie’s plot is so thin and yet they try to needlessly pad it in the worst ways possible. I mean for christs sake they try and make it so that frank and the pimp have a past more complicated than oh i hired him once as a driver, and it doesn’t do anything to help the story whatsoever. Nothing. Also, the all female gang are boring because the movie has nothing for them to do other than look hot and kiss each other randomly. Yeah that’s another thing this movie is guilty off, itll randomly cut away to two girls kissing at least three times. Why? what’s the context other than to grab the slowly dropped attention of the people watching it. The last thing is that for the entire film, Frank Martin senior keeps calling his son Junior. I know people do this in real life, but the entire film I kept thinking you’re not Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade please stop trying.
Final Score - 2/10
Ray Stevenson keeps this from being a one, but it’s still awful. I’m leaving Ed Skrein out of this only because it was his first feature and he wasn’t really noteworthy.
Anyways I have to go, not sure what the next review will be of but until then,
I’ll see you folks at the movies.
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