Though someone "may" have learned how to be a better human being. This is a simple story that plays out over 90 minutes and it's kind of amazing that it's interesting for even that short length of time given its simplicity. A young thug breaks into a car and it happens to be a car that its owner has prepared for such an event to occur. Once this young man closes the door, he cannot get out. He clearly has some mechanical abilities and knows a lot about vehicles as he strips this thing to the bare bones, but it was built with the consequences that if you do get in, you're not getting out. Some of this is very illogical including how easy it is to get into something as opposed to the opposite, but that doesn't make it any less tense with an ending that I didn't see coming. Much of what makes this work is the performance by Peter Lanzani as the young hoodlum and it is quite an accomplishment given that he is on the screen near constantly. It's an odd film that you're not quite sure who to root for by the time this approaches its finale. The script also has a bit more on its mind than just what occurs to this young man while trapped in this vehicle.
Review of 4x4
