Guy VEHICLE 19 is yet another contained thriller, although as it is all set inside a car at least it moves around a bit. The plot sees an American ex-con land in Joburg to reconnect with his girlfriend and show her that he's changed. Unfortunately there's a woman in his rental car and, after lots of silliness, it turns out that she's a local whistleblower on police corruption who has been kidnapped and presumably would have been murdered had he not somehow been given the wrong car. Inevitably the corrupt cops give chase. Shooting everything inside or just around the car is a clever conceit which just about works over 90 minutes provided you don't think about it too hard. What lets the film down though is how old-fashioned and dull the plot turns out to be: once again we have a heroic black woman exposing the evil of Afrikaaner cops. As apartheid has been over for twenty years now, it's both tediously predictable and not really relevant to the reality of the contemporary RSA. Also, in order to make the concept work the script has to force the hero to act in various silly ways. Finally, although marketed as such, this is not an action film; there are two chases max, and they're not that great. It's watchable as an experiment in limited film-making but not much else.

Prismark10 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.

Adam Peters (56%) Even for someone who thinks that the "Fast and the furious" movies are good harmless fun, which is an opinion I share, I still came into this one with low expectations. Not knowing anything about this beforehand, I had in mind a bland, overly familiar action flick that I'll unlikely hate, but will get nothing from and will forget about within ten minutes or so after watching. But really I thought this was fairly decent. After watching the film "Locke" a few months back this is like the Hollywood action version, which as it turns out is no bad thing. The plot is far fetched, but then so is Die hard's, as the late Paul Walker finds himself in a foreign city as things really start to go from bad to worse. I like the way it's almost completely set inside a car, and for most of the time you can only see the outside when it is reflected from a window, meaning you do feel like you're coming along for the ride every step of the way. And yes, the plot isn't logical, and there is a touch too much shaky cam at times, but it's not enough to ruin this enjoyable and entertaining little B-movie.

Johan Dondokambey The story is just another one of those common action movie plot; the main character being trapped thus have to clear his name through the perilous path. The mentionable thing is that the movie, staying true to the title, tried to make all the shots angled from inside the car. Seeing Locke (2013) before this movie, I understand that it would be very hard to grasp all the scope that an action movie offers while trying to compensate the car interior camera angle. There's the big trade off between the action outside the car and the interior feel this movie's trying to get. The story also miss out much on developing other characters besides Michael Woods. At least Paul Walker can keep his kind of usual role of a hard raised man being the unintentional hero.