DriverX

A semi interesting look into what it's like to be a driver for a ride sharing company. Decent acting. Ok story.

The movie goes in quiet mood despite many interacting characters, as the main one do. While watching just waiting for a big change to happen , it will , not in the events, but in your mind. Moving from real ordinary life to new little active one ,is all what you need sometimes.

I'm sick and tired of the producers thinking they can trick their viewers with fake reviews! 16/16 reviews are all fake, pathetic! Producers need to learn that a review should be honest and from their viewers, and instead, not paying for fake reviews. That money should have went towards better writing.

This film was cast perfectly and all actors performances were excellent. Writer/director Henry Barrial directed this film very well, but his non-climatic pointless writing was where this film missed the mark. It was a good premise about the Uber/Lyft driving scene, but that's all it was, a bunch of passenger stories that went nowhere, and that were dragged out and paced way too slowly. I was expecting something relating to Leonards music background to happen, like catch a break somehow, or win some grand DriverX award for his efforts, or something to happen with his marriage, but nothing. The entire last act with the rock band and the girl was even more pointless. The writing was lazy and could have been much better. Henry Barrial should've stuck to directing and hired a better writer to re-write his story. As such, the ratings for this film are certainly not worth anything above a 7 (in considering a low budget B-grade film), which is what I would've given this film, but it loses a star for all the fake and dishonest reviews. Thus a 6/10 from me.

DriverX is a drama about Leonard (Patrick Fabian), a stay-at-home middle-aged dad, who starts driving for an (fictional) Uber-like company to help support his family. As he begins driving he becomes intrigued by the fast paced nightlife so much different from his one life style which makes him feel young again.

Writer-director Barrial based the movie on his own experiences as an Uber driver. But, actually, nothing happens in this film. I'm not saying this is a bad movie, it's not, but everything about it screams this film is something else, including the trailer. In the story, Leonard was a manager of a record store that had to shut down because no one was buying vinyl anymore. This seems a bit odd because this format pop up everywhere now-days. Also, there is no pretense that any one passenger is there to impart deep wisdom, not to mention that there is more vomiting here than any film needs. There are not many sympathetic female characters here, too. This whole film tries to epitomize the struggle of many different annoying points in life ... but we already saw so many other movies doing it better.

5+/10

Why are so many producers/writers making movies today that do not have any real climax/ending to them? I enjoyed this movie until it was over and I realized there would be no conclusions forthcoming. And why did all the pickups have to be drunk or high on drugs? This movie could have been so much more.