He has since played supporting roles in films like “Trouble with the Curve”, “Gran Torino”, “Invictus” (all also directed by his dad), and in “Fury”, “Snowden” and “Suicide Squad”. We last saw him playing a supporting role in “Fast & the Furious, Fate of the Furious”. He now plays the lead role in “Overdrive”, which seems to be trying to be a new version of the “Fast & Furious” franchise with its obsession on vintage sports cars.
He plays Andrew Foster. He and his half brother Garrett (Freddie Thorp) are carnappers. They specialize on vintage luxury cars. They go to the south of France to steal a rare Bugatti 1937 worth several million euros and owned by Jacomo Morier (Simon Abkarian), a local crime boss. They perform the daring heist while their target car is inside a moving container truck.
The problem with the movie is that it’s a mish-mash of ideas that you’ve seen from other movies about fast cars and reckless guys who are forced to do a job for a rich kingpin, with beautiful locations, fantastic car chases and beautiful sexy women. Then there’s absolutely no endearing chemistry between the two lead actors who simply failed to convince us that they’re brothers who care for each other.The script is also badly written, peppered with stupid lines of dialogue and even the action scenes are not that brightly staged. The direction by Antonio Negret is really nothing special. Maybe they should have called Luc Besson.
