Some movies just can't decide what they are about. This is one of them, in a very disappointing way. When you cook up a story, you need to decide what your antagonists are. The human baddies were... well, B-movie grade baddies. Their first real mayhem scene screamed "The Crow: The Rip-Off" cranked to eleven. It gets worse when you realize that the Car is haunted, which makes it pretty much a kind of second-rate Flying Dutchman kind of ghostly thingie, and one can go with that. Then, it all gets thrown, like the car owner, through the window: the car still needs a CPU to run... so what is this? A crossbreeding of Christine, The Exorcist and Knight Rider? Although it doesn't talk as such... and then, the story falls from the cliff (like the car...) one more time as even after the CPU is dealt with, the carcass can still revive itself, when it was made clear a minute ago that this was its Achille's heel?
Consistency, guys. A story can be slow, lame, badly acted even, and we all can still like a "so bad it's good" movie but that indecisiveness as to what the Car really is, makes it all very much pointless to watch. Super Hybrid was at least funny and earned brownie points for originality. The Car R2R is sloppy and can't even get its concept right.
The Car: Road to Revenge
(2019)
That car should never have left the assembly line...
16 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers