Drive Hard shouldn’t be enjoyable. It doesn’t do anything original; it’s essentially Die Hard in a car, which might sound familiar… “Die Hard in a bus” is the infamous elevator pitch for Speed. It mashes up movies like The Chase, Nothing to Lose, The Ref, and any number of other Stockholm Syndrome-based comedies with gags we’ve seen dozens of times. Even the action – the one thing that could conceivably save the movie – is dragged down with haphazard editing and obvious budget restrictions. And yet, I had a seriously good time watching it.
Peter Roberts (Thomas Jane) is a retired race car driver turned driver’s ed instructor that feels insignificant in his own household, unappreciated by his wife and daughter. But then a man named Simon Keller (John Cusack) signs up for one of Peter’s driving lessons with the sole intention of forcing him to be his getaway driver in a bank heist. The movie that follows is more of a road flick than anything else; it plays like two old pals reconnecting on a road trip, except one of them has gone psycho. Again, nothing that we haven’t seen before, but the chemistry between Jane and Cusack makes it watchable.
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