Here Samara Weaving plays Edie, a struggling student/bankworker, who finds herself dragged back into her former world as a getaway driver when her feckless hustler boyfriend incurs the wrath of a druglord, who is also a former boss of Edie. Perhaps darker and less action-packed than the trailer suggested, this is little more than a couple of well-executed bookending flash-cut car chases stitched together with a very basic heist story, but it takes its time to flesh out the character of Edie and her self-destructive relationship to good effect, and the snappy dialogue flows easily and is occasionally very funny, as if Tarantino were making a very low-budget Fast & Furious movie. Samara Weaving seems to have the ability to make any character credible and engaging with another feisty and focussed performance here (and giving the final scenes a knockout emotional punch), matched by a nicely-judged performance from Karl Glusman as her partner John. The mid-section may drag considerably, but the core relationship (and its two central players) makes Eenie Meanie interesting to watch.
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