This lightweight heist movie leans more towards the Oceans and The Transporter franchises than Fast & Furious, although the influence of all three is strongly felt, centring on stealing wildly expensive classic cars (which do look magnificent here) rather than muscle cars in the gorgeous-looking South of France. After a few rounds of actor musical chairs the lead car-thief stepbrothers are played by Scott Eastwood (American, older, steely and brooding) and Freddie Thorp (British, younger, cocky and mouthy), who have a easy charm and wear leather jackets and flutter eyelashes adequately. There are some decent car stunts, the villains are cartoon-like and give little real sense of threat in a very simple story, and Idiot Plot runs riot in the third act, papered over with a decent chase sequence and three very well-staged stunt gags. Overdrive is competent and just a notch above direct-to-DVD fare but is rather forgettable.
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