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Overdrive

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  • Title: Overdrive
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An obvious attempt to take advantage of the popularity of the Fast & Furious franchise, 2017’s Overdrive offers a tale of car thieves in over their head. Aside from the short opening heist, which provides a look at the skills of brothers Andrew (Scott Eastwood) and Garrett (Freddie Thorp), the film races in fits and starts continuing pushing off the promised big heist with various subplots that are constantly mucking up the story. While we eventually get the heist we’re promised, by the time it happens does anyone still care?

Stealing from the wrong man (Simon Abkarian), Andrew and Garrett are forced to put together a crew to steal from an even more dangerous man (Clemens Schick). Rather than just move forward with that plot we get the pair making deals with the second target, facing retribution from old enemies, dealing with romantic entanglements, being investigated by Interpol, and on and on.

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Knock Knock

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  • Title: Knock Knock
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2015’s Knock Knock fits into the subgenre of male fantasy gone wrong having some similarities to 2006’s Hard Candy. The set-up, which could only occur on film, involves an architect (Keanu Reeves) being visited by two beautiful stranded bisexual nymphomaniacs (Ana de Armas and Lorenza Izzo) on the rainy night his wife (Ignacia Allamand) and children (Dan Baily and Megan Baily) have left for warmer climates. It’s not long before the the two young woman lose their clothing and begin making increasingly obvious advances to their host.

The first half-hour sets the scene with the pair working a little too hard to seduce the family man, while stealing glances letting us know more is a foot which becomes suddenly evident to Evan the morning after when the pair announce they have no plans on leaving and the mind games take darker and darker (and more ridiculous) turns.

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