Vehicle 19

2013

Action / Adventure / Crime / Mystery / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 23% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 31% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.9/10 10 15924 15.9K

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Plot summary

A parolee becomes the target of a massive police manhunt after inadvertently picking up a rental car with a female whistleblower tied up in the trunk. Now, as the police attempt to silence the woman before she can testify about the city's rampant corruption, the ex-con who just regained his freedom must defend her life, and clear his own name.


Uploaded by: OTTO
May 13, 2013 at 12:26 PM

Top cast

Paul Walker as Michael Woods
Ben Tjibe as Muscles
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696.38 MB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
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1 hr 25 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jtindahouse 3 / 10

A shame this stinker had to be one of Walker's last few films

I was very saddened, as was everyone, by the recent passing of Paul Walker. He may not have been the finest actor around, but he had charisma and screen presence. He seemed to love doing movies involving cars as a central theme. Unfortunately this may have skewed his decision on deciding to do 'Vehicle 19', because not many could debate this was a blight on his career.

The first thing that must be mentioned is the grim view it portrays of Johannesburg, South Africa. From what I understand of the place (having never been) what we see is quite accurate to how things really are, but it just felt as though the quantity it was shown in was overkill. There were constantly people coming up to cars with knives demanding wallets, or kids coming up and distracting from one window while another child steals things from the other window, or even people driving by a pulled over police car and throwing things at it before driving off. Just a few examples of things that just kept coming up and were for the most part completely unrelated to the story and held little relevance to anything. Perhaps writer/director Mukunda Michael Dewil had a bad experience there once?

The writing is lazy throughout. The opening scene shows Walker's character in a car chase trying to avoid the police. The screen then pauses and we are shown the word on the screen "earlier". I don't mind beginning a movie with a scene that takes place later in the piece, but the scene needs to provide at least some intrigue or mystery. This movie is called 'Vehicle 19', it wouldn't have taken a genius to work out there would be a car chase in it at some point. The set-up is incredibly lazy, to the point that no explanation is even attempted as to why Walker's character is given the wrong car in the first place. The characters make incredibly unrealistic decisions throughout which makes it really hard to have any empathy for them. Naima McLean's acting was near unwatchable. Walker himself does what he can with a terrible script and terrible actors to work off. I was actually impressed with the effort he put in. I'm sure he realised pretty early in the piece what a shocker he'd signed on to, so it can't have been easy.

It's a real shame this movie has to stay on Walker's résumé, especially in the latter part of it. He had some pretty good movies in his time, 'Joy Ride' being a personal favourite of mine and of course the 'Fast and Furious' series. Of course no actor is clean of the odd shocker so it'll be forgiven. But I plead with you - if you get the urge to go and rent/buy some Walker films to remember him by just skip over this one.

Reviewed by OJT 7 / 10

Different, with great use of a exotic foreign country

Being very different from the trailer, I still found myself enjoying this thriller very much. It's very unconventional, something I really enjoy. After watching a ton of movies over the years, I love to watch something new. This is!

We meet a guy out on parole after killing someone in an accident, going to Jo'Burg, South Africa, and going to be there on a scheduled time, meeting his wife at the American embassy. But things go wrong off right after landing on a delayed plane. He gets the wrong car by Hertz, where there are two car rented by the police. He finds himself in an awful predicament, and is soon hunted by corrupt police. But being the son of a sadist, the corrupt police has "picked" the wrong guy to frame for a crime. Paul Walker is great, acting very solid.

I like the South African touch here. An American coming to a very different and exotic country, where he immediately finds himself not knowing anything. This is fresh film making, and far from your average stupid Hollywood flick.

Don't listen to the haters here. They were probably expecting a Fast & Furious rip off or lookalike movie here. This is nothing such. It's a rather exceptionally different thriller. Not everything is 100 percent believable, but still it's way better than a lot of others.

Reviewed by Prismark10 4 / 10

Running out of gas

Vehicle 19 is another of these bottle films which tends to be stripped down movies firmly fixed usually on one setting. A boot of car, a car, a phone booth etc. It usually has one well known star, sometimes there is also a star cameo and mainly headed for straight to pay TV channels or DVD.

Paul Walker stars and is an Executive Producer for this film where he plays a fugitive from the United States who has broken his parole conditions gone to South Africa, where he picks up a rental car and is meeting up with his girlfriend who works for the American Embassy.

However he has picked up the wrong rental car and worse he is impatient to wait for the mix up to be corrected. Bad mistake, as he discovers a gun, a mobile phone and a bound & gagged woman in the back seat of his car. An incoming phone call makes it clear that this car was intended for someone else and he enters a world of police corruption as he is hunted down.

Bravo to Walker for making a film in Johannesburg which gives the film an unusual setting. Its of course sad that its another car chase film especially given the circumstances of his death.

The film is enjoyable at the beginning but lapses into clichés and implausibilities as the weak script brings it to a halt. The showdown at the end in front of the courthouse looks ludicrous but the car chase scenes makes the film look better than it actually is.

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