Wheelman (Jeremy Rush, 2017)

About as low-budget for an action film as you can get, with nearly all of it taking place in one car and no recognisable stars, Wheelman follows a getaway driver through the might after he's been double-crossed, and is trying to work out through a succession of phone calls what might actually be going on. It seems that the director has seen the excellent Locke with Tom Hardy, and decided that it really needed a violent bank job remake, which is pretty much a workable metaphor for what Americans do when plundering and reconstructing anything of quality in the medium. The tension is fairly effective, but the premise is incredibly hackneyed and so, even after a running length of only 80 minutes, I guarantee you'll feel a bit soiled for having fallen for it. I did, anyway.

4/10