Either the director was absent for the whole movie or had been taken ill and there was a stand in 9 year old child in the directors chair. There was no hint of any chemistry between the main stars and I doubt if there was a single improvement retake in the whole movie. "Springtime for Hitler" springs to mind as one thinks of the unlikely possibility of a deliberate failure agenda by this movie's makers. Cusack seemed to be in a different movie the whole time, acting away on his own as if he was not actually there, but had been put there post production. The stunts and driving scenes for what they were worth were not edited into the movie well. Twelve million dollars spent on what? The movie has all the panache of an amateur film maker's holiday movie. I have nothing to praise about the character interpretation by Thomas Jane, who seemed to only have two facial expressions, laughing and not laughing.
Review of Drive Hard
