12.00 am. It is after midnight and two friends, Mel and Jules are at the airport after a holiday in Mexico. Looking forward to getting home, the board a shuttle that is heading downtown. Three other passengers are also on the shuttle including a nervous accountant and two frat boys, one of whom has been flirting with Jules. Soon after they begin the drive, they find themselves in broken down slums and deserted streets, with no idea of what is happening. Just as they think the worst has happened, things take a horrific and unexpected twist and suddenly everyone on board is battling for survival. Who will come out unscathed?
Tony Curran as the driver. Damn! He was good. What the director did was rather smart, he chose an actor who can seem nice and kind and then twist that advantage by turning him into the total opposite, his switch from one extreme to the other was flawless in approach. This is an actor who really pushed the limits to show his range and proved he is adept at acting. An actor I long to see even more of, on the screen.
also never hop on board an airport shuttle driven by a finger-severing, face-slashing, stone cold maniac who would take me to the most desolate part of the big city’s industrial neighborhood in the wee hours of the morning with the intent of doing God only knows what to me — but I could see how a group of teenagers would make that mistake.
However as expected there were some flaws I did find hard to overlook. Like why they didn't try anything sooner when the chance was ripe and they had a better chance of survival, the used cliché of the mobile phone not working it has been done often but this movie did not need it and yet taped it on like it would be a saving grace of the film and finally,
Making the bad guy seem unkillable, in FT13 it works because we suspend disbelief but for a movie that is rather set in motions that echo in our lives, it rather let the movie down very badly.
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