Big Driver (2014)

It's not great but it's not bad. I rarely feel this ambiguous about a movie to be honest. It seems to be a revenge thriller with an odd light- hearted "Murder She Wrote" sensibility, which honestly makes no sense but results in something quite bemusing & unexpected. I really don't know what I think about this flick but I sort of enjoyed it. Some of the reviewers here giving it negative reviews are so incorrect in their comments I actually wonder if they even watched the movie. Certainly it's doubtful if they DID watch it that they actually paid it much attention. For example, there was no "dead relative" talking to her, that was clearly one of her novel's characters and the other women were part of the "knitting circle" from her books. The point was that she was having trouble separating reality from fantasy, but many have missed that point. There is a lot more to this story than some seem to think so if you are the kind of person who needs everything spelled out to you carefully and/or have the attention span of a flea then you won't like this flick. Others might like it tho. Worth giving a shot but don't expect too much. It just could have been done a whole lot better.

SPOILER: I always thought a TV-movie meant suitable for all the family. Is it me or has the standard for what is classed a TV movie changed? I really like this movie although to start with, I almost gave up watching it because it looked too perfect ..living the dream etc...not much happening except small dramas, I mistakenly thought it was one of those "TV movies". Then there was some bad language, the rape, attempted murder, dead bodies, and revenge which was all the more entertaining without interference from other parties eg the police. But this message here of not calling the police is surely not a message to tell the masses? I love good revenge films such as this one but this film loses a star for being described as a TV or cable-movie.

This has the creepy overtones of a Stephen King story and the movie does a very good job of delivering on the story.On the surface we see a successful author of lightweight mysteries, visiting her fans, and enjoying their adulation. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, she has a childhood trauma that has given her some unique coping abilities that she has used to be successful.When trauma hits once again, she copes because she has a genius ability to compartmentalize everything.At times, I wondered if this was going to be a rehash of Misery or perhaps another take on The Burning Bed.The movie successfully mixes the seriousness of a near death with lighthearted satire.

Poorly-written cable-made thriller, adapted by Richard Christian Matheson from a Stephen King novella, has the authoress of a series of mystery novels beaten, raped and left for dead by a truck driver after blowing out a tire on a curiously deserted "scenic" road. Instead of calling the police, she figures out she was set up and takes matters into her own hands. Abhorrently irresponsible at its core, this "woman's revenge" tale is confoundedly illogical, conveniently skipping over important details (such as how the writer's vehicle--with four good tires--ends up parked at a bar where the proprietress also has her phone number, identification and keys). Maria Bello looks convincingly frazzled in the lead role but has no personality. Olympia Dukakis is amusingly wry as a puckish member of Bello's imagination, and rock singer Joan Jett has a nice (if pointless) bit part, but the wayward, derivative picture is so under-directed (and so determined to be gamy and shocking) that it forgets to cover its tracks.