Big Driver

2014 "Murder is a two-way street."
5.6| 1h27m| NR| en
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Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
blumdeluxe "Big Driver" is an adaption of a Stephen King plot evolving around a young writer who gives a lecture in the countryside and gets raped several times on her way back home. As she seeks revenge, she returns to the place of her horror to hunt down her perpetrators.There's not much new to the plot. A beautiful woman who is lost in the countryside because her car broke down should by now be a very regular appearance in the states, judged by the movies depicting it. The tendency to bring in the characters from her books are controversial, some might hate it, personally it didn't disturb me that much because at least this way you have something that separates the film from plenty others. I like the revenge element, although it is hardly unlikely that she turns from a wreck into a cold-blooded killer in less than a week and it would be very irresponsible to let the police out of everything she saw.All in all this is not one of the strong King adaptions. What you see is what you get, so if you like what you see go ahead and give it a try. Otherwise there are better titles within the genre that are waiting to be explored.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU That's not an outstanding film, but it is well-built and well-conducted. It is faithful to the original story and it reveals some of the worst evils ordinary people carry in their frightened souls, the dark sides of their souls. Just say, mister, what are these frightful and frightening things?First of all our robotized cars. Before we were afraid, and Stephen King loved that fear of ours, of the car itself and the evil that could live in it, the way it lived in Christine. Now the car is nothing at all. The car is inhabited by a GPS, that simple and daily version of the mad computer of Stanley Kubrick's 2001, the Space Odyssey and that GPS has a masculine identity, in this film, whereas the car is necessarily a female symbol since it can contain us the way a cocoon or a womb would. It is the voice of the father inside the mother's womb. That is reassuring up to a point, up to the point when someone from outside manipulates the GPS and turns it into a trap.And that one is a woman. All evil comes from a woman, the eternal Eve, who manipulates a man, here the poor Tom the GPS. That's already very frightening. This woman is the conspirator, the serial killer you imagine most of the time as being a man. But this woman is even worse than that because she is a mother.The eternal Eve needs a serpent to put her on the road to evil, and that serpent is a two-headed one since it is a pair of brothers. That cuts deep into us, right through to the bone, or maybe even to the marrow in the bone. Two brothers unified in their crime. That's really ugly, but two sons who, unified in their crime, are both manipulating their mother and manipulated by their mother, and they have to pay for the passage and give their mother some trinket, some trophy, some souvenir from the victims she sends them for their fun.That is becoming blood curdling to anyone sane in their minds. But the film adds a few details that imply we are all living with a deep secret in our own memory, a big secret from infancy that is both motivating us and manipulating our own motivations. We are the puppet of the traumas, big or small, we experienced, then registered in our infancy and childhood, at times teenage, and that we yet buried deep in our unconscious or subconscious, and little is needed for it to come up and make us do the most horrific things or just fail in our most desired and dearest dreams.The film then works very well even if it does not insist on the numerous details King gave us in this story, since he is such a meticulous writer. The reader then cannot ignore the most intimate details of the characters like the brand names of their underwear or the color of their bathrobes. And that is no metaphor at all. Some writers consider the truth of the story is in such details. I would agree for sure and at the same time agree to disagree: some details are at times there just to have some gross effect on us and I do not exactly appreciate grossness. I prefer horror and terror.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Schuriken The entire film is about 1 hour and 20 minutes long. Which explains perfectly what you're about to see and why.You're about to see a short film with a scenario so common, your eyes will keep rolling every 2 minutes.Why should you see this, I don't know, it's not a very clever film. Same old stuff all over and over again. It brings absolutely nothing to the table.A woman gets raped, left for dead and returns to have her revenge on the guys who did it. It doesn't sound much now does it ?I am certain that the director during the filming had only one thought on his mind. That the movie poster will read Stephen King and he will get away with it. But no, he didn't get away with it. The film is mediocre at best. The dialogue is very frustrating and ridiculous.No horror, no mystery, no plot, no nothing. Bad acting and unimpressive photography.You know there are still people around that have seen too many movies to be impressed like a 7 year old child who watched this story for the first time.A second or third choice Stephen King film. Simple as that.
boc321 SPOILER: I always thought a TV-movie meant suitable for all the family. Is it me or has the standard for what is classed a TV movie changed? I really like this movie although to start with, I almost gave up watching it because it looked too perfect ..living the dream etc...not much happening except small dramas, I mistakenly thought it was one of those "TV movies". Then there was some bad language, the rape, attempted murder, dead bodies, and revenge which was all the more entertaining without interference from other parties eg the police. But this message here of not calling the police is surely not a message to tell the masses? I love good revenge films such as this one but this film loses a star for being described as a TV or cable-movie.