Unhinged is a thriller about psychopathic cuck Tom(Russell Crowe) who opens the movie by killing his ex-wife and her new partner with a hammer. Rachel(Caren Pistorius) is a couple steps shy of a full blow Karen and when she honks to long at Tom in traffic he starts terrorizing her and killing those close to her.
Got to give it to him Crowe is giving this unmitigated hound of a script everything he's got. He has a deliciously over the top southern drawl, he glowers, he snarls, he grins with relish but even with all his star power he can't elevate this trash. Pistorius is out of her depth, unable to do free herself from the swamp of the script and the not particularly sympathetic character which she plays(even though the script makes repeated attempts to make her so).
The movie opens with some idiotic fear mongering about road rage and is very transparently a rip off of 1993's Falling Down but the reason that movie was effective, but has certainly become problematic, is the gradual reveal of it's central character, the fact he is at first sympatric, we agree with some of his opinions if not his actions, then over time his true darkness is revealed. With Unhinged nothing is hidden, there is no transformation, none of the characters are particularly compelling, and as a result there is no particular tension built.
Crowe has still got it but the movie certainly doesn't.
Currently streaming on Amazon.
Don't See It.
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