Collide (2017)

Wonderful character development!

terrible... so disappointed.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I admittedly do not like action movies to begin with, but I somehow thought the cast sounded good. Boy was I ever wrong! I kinda realized after a few minutes that recording this was a big mistake. What utterly ridiculous garbage!! Not even the fact that it is set in my home country of Germany makes this bearable. Shame about all those nice cars!!!

Casey Stein (Nicholas Hoult) meets Juliette Marne (Felicity Jones) at a concert in Cologne, Germany. They start dating. He works for local criminal Geran (Ben Kingsley). She needs a kidney transplant. Hoping to make money for her surgery, he takes a job from Geran to steal drugs from his evil boss Hagen Kahl (Anthony Hopkins). It does not go well.I've never heard of this film and was surprised to see the top level cast. It's trying to be a stylish action thriller. It is not successful. The plot is plodding simplicity. Ben Kingsley is over-compensating with crazy character work which clashes with a rather bland performance from Nicholas Hoult. The plan does not work but I've seen worst. There is plenty of action but no tension. The writers probably considered themselves Tarantino but they are nowhere close. There are situations that don't make sense but the movie keeps going. It's a waste of perfectly good actors.

While ex-pat Casey Stein (Nicholas Hoult) is in a night club, he meets a bartender, Juliet (Felicity Jones) and they are in love. Julie makes Casey quit his life of crime working for Geran (Ben Kingsley) who deals in cocaine. Later we discover Juliet needs $200,000 for a kidney transplant. Casey gets involved in a crime which includes multiple chase scenes, car wreaks, and he must have gotten shot at 100 times or so...all misses. It was a one man "fast and furious" on the Autobahn.The film was fairly well constructed with only minor "twists" which was simply stuff we didn't see happen. It was primarily an action film first and love story second. The teaser crash scene in the beginning, comes at about an hour into the feature.Guide: No sex or nudity. I don't recall any F-words

OMG! This is THE most under-rated, under-marketed movie ever! 2 old guys with blockbuster flawless convincing performances (thank you Sirs) + a fabulous, sexy, exhilarating performance by the soon to be "A-list" youngsters, and I NEVER HEARD A WORD ABOUT THIS MOVIE UNTIL I WATCHED IT! SHAME! WATCH!!! Think about what you would be willing to do for love while you watch this, and how many times it might all become nevermore! Thrilling! I would have rated this as a 10 if it had been marketed and put out there in mass media! Shame!!! All of the negative reviews seem to be from those who are enthralled by names, not substance, and missed the point of the reality for these characters. Woo hoo, "autobahn, Hopkins, Kingsley," but stopped at the name, and did not see the depth and the substance. Listen, don't watch, or at least don't review movies if characters who risk everything don't move you! Seriously, you feckless putz, what have you ever risked for anything?!? Yeah, right, I thought so!!!