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Based on a startling true incident, an octogenarian Vietnamese-American taxi driver finds himself commandeered by three jail-breakers on the neon-drenched streets of Orange County. At its core, this isn’t merely a crime caper where the aged and the outlaw collide—what begins as a gritty thriller (think Collateral meets Little Saigon) morphs unexpectedly into a study of displacement, memory, and emergent kinship.

Director and co-writer Sing J. Lee—best known for his kinetic music videos—opts for a “slow-burn noir” approach, favoring long takes and negative space over rapid cuts. His collaborator Christopher Chen, adapting Paul Kix’s GQ dispatch, anchors the narrative in documentary-style realism, gently tipping the scales from suspense to soulful drama.

Hiệp Trần Nghĩa inhabits Long with an almost metaphysical stillness (call it “quietism acting”), wordless at times yet loaded with interior history. Opposite him, Dustin Nguyen’s Tây oscillates between menace and mentor, a...