Vince McKee is a middle-aged baggy man who works as a taxi driver. The work gives Vince a lot of positive emotions. Customers puke and shit in the cabin, every second tries to throw a victim driver for money, a swollen boss - an Asian man threatens dismissal. Marriage has ceased to bring joy, the acuity of sensations has gone, the children have grown up and give their parents contempt for the time and health spent on their upbringing. The life of the Mackey family is sulfur and boring, the spouses live by inertia. A meeting with an old friend Colin, recently released from Her Majesty's prison, colors Vince's dull life with bright colors.
The Driver is a medium-sized crime drama that promises more than it can deliver. Despite the good cast - multi-star Morrissey (see all the English films of the 21st century), the cool Irish bandit / policeman Colm Mini, the super-claimed Ian Hart (Agents of S.H.I.T., Bates Motel, Bestia, etc.), and the intriguing beginning, the film leaves a feeling of some incompleteness. All the time you wait for something to happen, and... nothing happens.
There is little blood, a couple of times people are kicked with their hands and feet, but without much enthusiasm, rather with interest - do you really hurt? What if I hit you harder? The main villain was portrayed as very intellectual, cold, brutal, but in the end it turns out that he is simple and naive as a broom. A greedy taxi driver easily clears his conscience, a grandiose crime turned out to be a banal raid, the police are competent and insightful. Bandits turned out to be complete suckers, family problems are solved by themselves, universal love and the triumph of law. It's a squirrel-like thing.
A poorly written script, a blurred ending, cast-iron morality, as a result, we have a passing, optional drama.
4 out of 10