
As our characters are headed home from their engagement, our drama Drive Back is set, and their path ahead seems repetitive and monotonous on an endless stretch of road. And to make things worse there’s a crazed driver during their car fuel-up.
While reading this, my love for time travel time paradoxes, and time loops in movies and TV shows means I certainly enjoyed that part. And it was executed so well that there would be times when they and by extension us as the audience watched them so deeply contorted in their memories and worlds that it would be impossible to tell them what was real and what wasn’t. The film also had a constantly evolving mystery element, during its runtime it tries to build the world around the Couple and the Road, asking questions about them and trying to piece the plot together. On top of this, the killer looked terrifying with the costume design being top notch, engagement costumes gave more rationality to them for how were they featured in the film’s plot.
Anticipation was had for the film being a little more drastic given the title of the film had slasher in it, with the set piece being a rather unique road.
Exchange with Drive Back, and the situation had been quite different.
The movie focuses on an engaged couple Reid and Olivia, where Reid is portrayed by Zack Gold Psycho Brother In-Law, and Olivia is portrayed by Whit Kunsick the Country Gold. The acting of the actors is acceptable and complements the writing of the film. I do feel like the film revolves massively around Reid, who can be identified as a graphic novelist, whereby he comes off as emotionally exhausted having gone through quite a lot in terms of his childhood along with having a complicated relationship with his father, and a feeling of self-doubt. This lack of confidence is then again reflected in his relationship with his fiancée. Whereas Reid is trying to sort out his confused mind and struggling to get over the past he is living in. In terms of Olivia, she has a mysterious aura around her and is shown to be waiting for Reid to reveal more things, however, every single time the couple tries to travel and escape that mist of confusion, it doesn’t quite work out. I feel like this plot point had so much potential and depth to Reid’s character but it truly was wasted and never went in depth. Reid having to go through so much emotionally and mentally is the reason why Olivia is in such a tedious place.
In conclusion, it is safe to say that Reid being the more developed and intriguing character changed what Drive Back would’ve been to something utterly monotonous, and boring.
In the first movement, the audience is exposed to nothing but banalities common in a horror movie. This includes a dead phone signal an odd grandma who lives in the bushes, a strange old grandmother who warns the hitchhikers not to proceed, stopping to offer assistance to a roadside stranger, and both the main characters of the horror movie driving while interspersing their literal conversation with talking. This latter circumstance is used, especially at the beginning of the plot, on a few occasions, which is done to justify why the next part of the plot is boring in itself. It is not quite a rip-roaring pacing and although I hoped for a rip-roaring pace it does get there My apologies if I am upsetting you hoping for rip-roaring pace it is typically languid and in the advanced scenes gets to what is being sought at around the mid-point. While this might be acceptable in other movies, while a character trace is to be established and presented in the first half Drive Back disregards that concept.
There is a novel idea in ‘Drive Back’ that will pay off I would say for the second half. It is however the path that leads to the second half which proves to be challenging. The film at times out of the blue employs some form of scare tactics and worn out horror cliches in the hope of being frightening but sadly this approach is a total failure.
Zach Gold and Whit Kunschik do a commendable job, but the roles they portray are rather corny, particularly the pair of actors. Olivia Reid had a lesser role than Reid’s, which is why she came off rather better as his character appeared to be more developed and less invested in a pregnant wife character. If such a short movie, directed by Patrick Cohen, Anderson for Gold Kally would last no longer than 15 minutes, it would make much more sense, but drive back and drive far’ if it is a full-length feature.
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