{"id":27086,"date":"2017-12-04T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=27086"},"modified":"2017-12-04T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:01:41","slug":"fast-convoy-le-convoi-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/fast-convoy-le-convoi-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Convoy (Le Convoi) (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A convoy carrying drug to Spain hits a few issues on the road and must make due with what they can.<\/p>\n

Written by Yann Brion and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Schoendoerffer and directed by the latter, Fast Convoy is a road movie and a drug movie while it also kinda feels like a heist movie in that these guys, in multiple cars, are basically trying to make it to a destination with illicit merchandize.\u00a0 The film is rather character-based with each character traveling with a co-pilot and taking orders from an unseen man.\u00a0 The story builds around them as they drive.\u00a0 While the title is a bit misleading, the film does have a few car-chase-ish scenes which have occasional nods to different car films and may or may not be influenced by the Luc Besson way of shooting cars on the road (low to the ground, front car pov).\u00a0 The car stuff is really one of the main appeals to this film and the scenes are well done and shot.<\/p>\n

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The cast here is dominated by Beno\u00eet Magimel who has a part that is not necessarily the biggest, but is very important.\u00a0 He dominates in that he is the most famous of the cast and the usually best in any movie he shows up in.\u00a0 Here he is magnetic as usual and does good work with a part that is mysterious in nature and doesn\u2019t give him a ton of screen time until later in the film.\u00a0 The rest of the cast is also good with Reem Kherici standing out with a strong performance as the hostage once things get desperate for two of the drivers.\u00a0 She has a softer touch to the proceeding and a new angle to the story.\u00a0 Her acting stands out in many ways, all of them good.<\/p>\n

The cinematography by Vincent Gallot works the road and the cars well and makes the most of the cramps car settings when the film spends time with the teams of drivers and co-drivers.\u00a0 The way it establishes each of their spaces work perfectly for the story.\u00a0\u00a0 The aforementioned Besson-inspired driving scenes are a nice nods to famous car films and sequences made in France such as Subway, the Taxi series, and the first Transporter film.\u00a0 It\u2019s something that this reviewer can appreciate as a well shot-car sequence is not easy to pull off and it adds a ton to a film like this one.<\/p>\n

Fast Convoy has some really fun sequences, a few strong performances, and some damn nice cars used on a beautiful road in ways that add excitement to a fairly simple story of smugglers bringing drugs to another country and ending up taking a hostage.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fun film, with plenty car goodness to oogle.<\/p>\n

Fast Convoy comes out on VOD in the US on December 5th, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A convoy carrying drug to Spain hits a few issues on the road and must make due with what they can. Written by Yann Brion and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Schoendoerffer and directed by the latter, Fast Convoy is a road movie and a drug movie while it also kinda feels like a heist movie in that these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,71,240,302,367,391,703,1013,1087],"class_list":["post-27086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-foreign","tag-gangster","tag-mystery","tag-suspense","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27088,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086\/revisions\/27088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}