Vehicle 19 (2013)

I had no expectations before watching this movie.  Paul Walker has made some surprising films in the past, so I thought that I would give Vehicle 19 a chance.  Which movies has Walker surprised me in before?  Good question.  The answer is Running Scared (2006), The Lazarus Project (2008), and Eight Below (2006).

Vehicle 19 follows Michael Woods (Paul Walker), an American who travels to a foreign country.  He is in for a bumpy ride when a mix-up with the rental car company lands him in a vehicle with a cell phone, a pistol, and a bound and gagged woman in the back seat.

The movie was written and directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil.  There are no other noteworthy cast members.

Paul Walker is the lead in this boring waste of time, foreign, low budget one man show filled with cheap car chases, laughable special effects, a dull storyline, and uninteresting dialogue.

The soundtrack was painfully annoying and did not help the film’s cause.

For a movie classified as an action/thriller, it was deathly slow at times.

The plot was basically the equivalent to the punch line of a bad joke.  It was not entertaining, it lacked a point, and I quickly wanted to change the subject.  Often when the main character encountered a problem in the movie, the solution was all way too convenient.

The acting was bad.  The writing was worse, but the filmmaking as a whole was just a disgrace.  Luckily the movie’s runtime was only 85 minutes.  However, that was an 85 minutes that I will not get back.

Do yourself a favor and steer clear of this train wreck that somehow became a movie.  It is not worth your time or money.

I rate this movie a 1 on a scale of 1-10.

Buy, rent, or run?  RUN!