The Stunt Driver

Jefferson Bert’s personal author message

I would think that since I aspire to be a movie critic someday, I should know when I have a better selection of movies at home as opposed to what’s at the theatre.

The biggest problem I have is that I don’t seem to assess the quality of the movie enough by watching the trailer.

When watching this film, I saw that it had Ed Helms in it. Though he is not my favourite actor, he has had some movies that I enjoyed watching, so I figured I would give this a try.

I believed that he might bring some much-needed comedic effect to a movie that was only subpar based on the genre.

This movie is basically a documentary, and those movies I cannot stand. This could have been a movie that wouldn’t have completely passed due to the genre, but also wouldn’t have completely failed if Ed Helms had delivered on his ability to add comedic effect to certain roles.

Another aspect of the problem I have is that I look at some trailers for movies and I see an outing. More specifically, I see an outing where I will get to eat popcorn.

This was a fact that was brought up by my mother years ago before I started doing these reviews, as I would jump at the chance to go to any movie regardless of my desire to see it or know what it was about, just to eat popcorn.

This was definitely one of those movies.

In my mind, it is recommended to two different types of people: any new parents who are trying to get their babies to sleep, as implied through the sarcastic listing of “naptime movie” in relation to this movie’s genre, or those few people on Earth who make almost as much money as Ed Helms himself and don’t live paycheque to paycheque.

In other words, people who don’t have to be careful with how much money they spend and have money to waste.

Of course, I fall into the category of living paycheque to paycheque, and the money I spent to see this nonsense movie is money I regret spending, but more importantly, money I can never get back.

My initial thought when deciding to see this movie was that I had been off the horse in terms of my reviews recently due to a brief and mild illness and the resulting fatigue.

This movie is the first one I’ve reviewed in a little while, though I have done a few holiday shorts in between, and I figured that it would be a good place to get back on the horse and start doing reviews more regularly.

I thought this movie would be a comedy, but it wasn’t, and it was a complete letdown from start to finish.

It was so bad that I was able to come up with my own movie in my head with this one providing background noise. It’s called “It’s All in Your Head, Jeff,” and it’s a documentary that details the fake life I have in my head, which is complete with a beautiful bride and a ton of money.

Certain aspects of the movie in my head caused me to laugh, and that’s pretty much as close as this movie will get to me enjoying it because, truth be told, there’s nothing funny in this movie.

To sum it all up, not even the presence of Ed Helms could persuade me to give this movie a passing score.

Everyone should do themselves a favour and not watch this movie unless they have time or money to waste.

It was absolutely horrible. I will have to start properly assessing movies I desire to see based on what they’re about before I choose if I want to see them.

As of right now, I will say that I will pick another movie from my endless selection of movies at home to watch to make up for this absolute inconvenience of a movie.

It absolutely sucked. I’m sorry, but it did. There was nothing good about it.