Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on June 2014

After his success as Jesse in TV’s phenomenal Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul had his pick of pictures with which to launch his film career. True, I didn’t expect much from an adaptation of a video game directed by a former stuntman, but the generic car chases are okay-ish, and it gets points for not resorting to CGI. But in virtually every other regard—trite storyline, awful script, embarrassingly unfunny comic relief, length—this thin, literal car wreck of a movie is running on empty, a total watch-watcher that makes those Fast & Furious flicks look like art films. Paul should have kept looking. (126 min)