An elderly cab driver is taken hostage by escaped convicts and, somehow, The Accidental Getaway Driver pumps the brakes to make this true story deadly dull. JacobOller's Sundance2023 review:
of an elderly cab driver in L.A.’s Little Saigon who gets hijacked and kidnapped by three escaped convicts races like it’s running out of inches before it hits the margin of the magazine. Its perspective whirls around from the driver’s home life to the daring prison break. It’s riveting, grabbing you with its made-for-the-movies premise, and doesn’t dare lose you. Filmmaker Sing J. Lee and his co-writer Christopher Chen take a different route, one Waze certainly wouldn’t recommend.
Really, Lee’s creative strength—and the movie he seems to have wanted to make—only arrives at the very end, when the flashy premise fades and the true heart of the matter comes out. It’s when the thing that initially gets Long involved in Tây, Aden and Eddie ’s scheme , is allowed to blossom into what both were desperately searching for.
In the small, spare, stripped-down moments like these, you can see why Lee took this approach. Nguyen and Nghia are never better than when having quiet conversations that say very little out loud. Lee gives them space, shooting deliberately whether it’s a lingering long look across a lawn, or an extreme close-up highlighting Nghia’s years of wrinkled-in experience.. No, they are few and far between, as rare and as vital as the other style Lee occasionally leaps into.
The rest of the film lacks this soft touch. It’s either a faux-softness, dully driving around L.A. waiting for meaning to drop into place, or a tire iron to the head. And I’m not just talking about stagey, obvious scenes revolving around the father-son dynamic, like an extended sunflower seed spitting contest or the world’s longest shared cigarette break. The young cast goesconstantly. Nguyen falters when the material fails him , but Benssalah is the worst culprit.
The quartet are shuffled between rundown hotels, Walmart parking lots, a cramped Camry and other liminal nighttime spaces that lack incident, mood or tension. Attempts to build and then tear down camaraderie between the convicts are half-hearted, jabs in the dark at buzzwords like “found family.” For being three allegedly dangerous characters, the men on the lam are awfully dull.
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