The Refuge

Bland, boring, uneventful, sterile, uninteresting,mundane,amateurish, these are words that come to mind watching this garbage, i couldn't get much past 35 minutes, where the most interesting part was, he drove his car a little fast! Yip, that's the most excitement your gettin here, how on earth could this rubbish be granted a high score of 8, which would indicate at least worth a watch, if not great entertainment. Lead actor can't act, an he's in good company for this pointless bore fest, yawn,... i need 2 watch something now to rid myself of this excuse for a movie. Viewer Warning: DO NOT Watch!

It's a decent story and some of the images are gorgeous. But but but .... why oh why why is most of the movie spent on driving for endless stretches of time? How did this boring film score 8.2?

I, like others, took the (initial) 8.7 rating as being indicative of a quality piece of cinema. In fact, my expectations were such that I, sad to say, watched this entirely from beginning to end. As the movie progressed, through endless and pointless driving scenes and occasionally broken up by new characters woodenly reciting lines that were not only cliched but didn't really help to build up any story, I grew increasingly disbelieving. Surely there would some pivotal moment that would occur to kick things into a higher gear? There was not. Surely there would be a revelation that would give all the proceeding driving / corner turning / gear shifting / checking of traffic / poker-faced acting some context and meaning. There was not. Once I realised that nothing was going to happen I was so close to the end of the movie I thought I might as well keep going. No surprise that the ending is just as terrible as the rest of the movie.

Redeeming points - the visuals of LA at night (which is the only state you get to see anything in the movie - it's ALL filmed at night time) are nice. The sound track was pretty good, I thought, and perhaps the sole reason I managed to keep going.

Normally I would not leave such a scathing and nasty review, however it's clear from the ratings that 'someone' manipulated things to get it to 8.7 in the first place. As this number is about 7.7 higher than what the actual rating should be, this is a real no-no.

Avoid, avoid, avoid, but do keep an eye out for the sound track.

Truth is my first, and of all the driver,chauffour and wheelhandler movies ive seen this must be some of the most paralysing and lame events ever. you are for 60 minutes sitting in the backseat of a car listening to a growling engine, making turns and turns over and over. and nothing really happens. the rest is just humbug.

ive been scammed thinks the grumpy old man, except for the score that save a bit of the glory of making a feature length film, and its sad to say that is the only interesting part of this flick, and it is a 2 at max.... stay away from this if you consider it,

When i see 1000+ person voted 8.7 i knew this movie should be bad. If you like amateur student movies you may like it. In first scenes i notice color correction mistakes (cause of lighting mistakes) and unnecessary extended scenes that time i understood its waste of time.