AMBUSH, by John Frankenheimer, a good car chase film. Frankenheimer had directed Grand Prix and Ronin so he knew how to film exciting chases.
CHOSEN, by Ang Lee. Also a fairly decent car chase film. Probably the only interesting thing in it, Lee's little inside joke about The Hulk his big budget flop was the next film he directed.
THE FOLLOW, directed by the artsy fartsy Wong Kar-Wai, aims to be a mood piece but is just boring.
STAR, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring his then wife Madonna. Madonna looks pretty bad and the film is about the driver embarrassing and humiliating her. Almost prescient considering how Madonna and Ritchie's marriage ended.
POWDER KEG, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu wallows in it's stylization and pretentiousness, no fun.
HOSTAGE, directed by John Woo, only goes to prove that Woo should stick to filming scenes with Chow Yun-fat shooting thousands of bullets into guys instead of staging car chases.
TICKER, directed by Joe Carnahan, probably the best short film of the 2nd season, to bad Carnahan couldn't have brought this kind of interest to The A Team.
BEAT THE DEVIL, directed by Tony Scott. The most annoying of all these short films, an attempt at a supernatural/ comedy/ action short film. Filmed as usual by Scott like he had irritable bowel syndrome.
Ambush and Ticker are probably the only two worth checking out. This series is kicking around on YouTube.
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