Bus Driver

Scrappy, super low budget action film about a bus full of high school juvenile delinquent types on a field trip. When their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they stop off at the closest farm, which ends up being a drug operation. The rest of the movie is a siege film of sorts, with the kids, their idiot gym teacher, and the heroic titular bus driver (you know, like the cook in "Under Siege") saving everyone from the drug dealers try to kill everyone in order to protect their operation. The main reason I watched this film was that Robert Forster was in it, but I again fell for the B-picture bait-and-switch and Forster was hardly in the film. Still, for a super low budget picture, director Brian Herzlinger brought a level of energy that reminded me of "El Mariachi," though this film is certainly no "El Mariachi." Still, it's better than most of it's micro budget ilk.

I really enjoyed this. It's got a bit of everything, and is as entertaining as!! It has characters that are all misfits, a hilarious gym teacher, a tough guy, sex addict, meth addict, and a bit of "Steven Segal" (as the movie referenced at one point.) and a bunch of bad guys. I think the story and details were well thought out, especially knowing how some movies go. And unlike a lot of "B-Action", (I hope it's OK to call it that), this movie didn't have too many laughably unbelievable moments.

This is abysmal, so much potential, and completely wasted, if your into 'B' movies of the worst kind this is for you, the entire plot has been sacrificed to something unintelligible to those over 14 years old, avoid this and watch paint dry, it's much more exciting.

The director of this movie is yet to learn how to grab an audience to what he/she wants to impart to you, the viewer.

the leading character is a loud mouthed small guy trying to be a big guy and failing miserably...kids on a school bus ?..if their in their late twenties that's a stretch...and casting Robert Forster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Forster a much respected actor as the hero ??..sorry, that just didn't work for me.

This is Hollywood at it's worst, avoid this unless your getting it for nothing..

I can't believe I even watched this movie! I still can't believe it was made in 2016 .... Worse than "Diamondbacks " Even the boobs were fake ..... I would not waste my money on this ... actually I wouldn't even watch it if it were free... seriously, a waste of time . A real best driver could do better than this ! I'm still in shock .....

This really isn't that bad. It looks quite cheap but after seeing the title card I can almost believe this came out in the 1970's. If there wasn't a few cell phone references in the beginning this could have taken place in 1977 or something. That really would have worked in it's favour.

The plot isn't particularly new. A bus carrying a few teachers and some troubled teens crashes, and the group looks for help in a nest of drug cartel types. But wouldn't you know it? The bus driver is some sort of ex military ass kicker.

It's pretty fun. There's a few nice stylistic shots, some good violent fights and some well needed nudity and some good lines. The film knows it's place and tries to tick all the boxes. The main characters are decent enough; they don't aimlessly bicker like we see in low budget horror, which is a nice change.

I'd recommend this if you like low budget action from the 70's and 80's. It isn't a good movie by critical or mainstream standards. But the plot is pretty tight and the characters deal with the situation in believable and proactive ways. Which is all one can ask of any movie.