O.K. Garage

Ok, This is not a great movie. It's not even a good movie. Quirky, slow, lackluster and uneven. However, there is a reason why Will Patton won best actor award at the Newport Film Festival for his portrayal of Sean. He did an incredible job as this slightly crazy character who is sane enough to know something is very wrong with him. It is worth seeing this movie just to take a gander at Patton's performance.

A great character study, low-key, and surprisingly funny and sweet. John Turturro and Will Patton are excellent. Gemma Jones, who plays Will's character's mother, is also very good, as is Lili Taylor. But it's the sum of their performances that makes this movie worth watching.

Firstly, this movie came to me in a DVD compilation pack of 10 movies, categorized as a comedy collection. Now, you would have to be drawing a long bow to think of this movie as a comedy, although there are one... or maybe two funny parts. Despite this, I think the movie was O.K. .... get it! .... O.K. Garage .... O.K. .... Awwww...never mind! lol

I have to admit that I did not have the DVD cover and a title "All Revved Up" to give any false "Fast and Furious" expectations, as commented by others. However, what I did find was indeed a quirky, offbeat, romantic type drama, which to me rings true. Having worked in the automotive repair industry when I was younger, similar type behavior and meeting some quirky people was not uncommon in some workshops and this movie has helped me relive some suppressed nightmares.

The movie itself is no blockbuster with crazy car chases and huge explosions or lashings of CGI, but what it does give is a relatively accurate representation of what could be real life situations in the daily grind of life, with everyone playing their parts really well. While the only character I didn't like was Louis (Richard Bright), I felt the character was a little over the top and not quite believable, but necessary I suppose for his part in the story.

All in all not a movie for everyone maybe, but worth a look.

I think it is O.K. (-;

"All Revved Up" is a very ironic title for this, because if this movie was any slower, it would be moving backwards. It is a classic example of good actors and actresses in very bad parts. The characters have the energy of zombies, but seemingly without the intellect or sense of purpose. It has one brief action scene somewhere near the end, but the "zombies" actually turn out to have little to do with the action.

And don't let the cover fool you. It has little to nothing to do with the movie. I don't recall seeing either of those cars in the entire movie. In fact, the car most seen is a broken down Honda. There is absolutely nothing exciting about this movie.

Stars lili taylor. Rachel's car keeps breaking down. And she keeps bringing it to the ok garage. Where they keep ripping her off. So far, that's the only plot. And we're thirty minutes in. She meets johnny through sean (john turturro and will patton). They are both pretty far out there; johnny is a little slow. Sean carries lizards around with him. The two of them argue non-stop; they are angry all the time. And pick fights with everyone. That's pretty much the whole film. Pretty lame. Finally, things start happening in the last twenty minutes. Written and directed by brandon cole. This is the one film he has directed so far. I'm really glad i didn't pay money to see this one in a theater.