Swerve (2011)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Frank	Jason Clarke	½
Jina	Emma Booth	½
Colin	David Lyons	½
Charlie	Travis McMahon
Sam	Vince Colosimo	½

Review

Mediocre Australian thriller heavy on characters and plot, but not quite as much on motivation or logic. It all starts off promisingly enough, with some intriguing scenes involving cars, drugs, death and a beautiful woman, but despite knowing well which ingredients he wanted, writer/director Craig Lahiff doesn't quite know how to prepare his dish. Mostly, his idea is to copy similar successful films, such as Tarantino's work or Oliver Stone's U-Turn. And to the extent that Swerve actually works, it's because of all the things we are not aware of in the film's first half, such as the characters' emptiness or the plot's stupidity. The talented Jason Clarke is the film's most positive asset, along with that story in the epilogue.