Baseshment
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
Calum Hutton
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Lucia Ayala
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Mandeep Tyson
The acting in this movie is really good.
Batkid1
The Plot: Clive Owen ( before he was in "The Bourne Identity," "King Arthur," "Elisabeth: The Golden Age," and "Sin CIty" ) plays a "hire" who drives people places they desperately need to go. Often times, they are working for something "top secret" and can only give our protagonist limited information. Also, this is meant to show off the BMW car and is executive-produced by Tony Scott, Ridley Scott and David Fincher ( Panic Room, Alien 3 ).In this episode directed by Kar Wai Wong, our hero is hired by a client ( Forest Whitaker in an uncredited cameo ) to follow a celebrity's ( Mickey Rourke ) girl, suspected of adultery, without getting too close or too far away to where he will lose her.The reason this isn't that great is because the BMW car is hardly seen and it's probably the shortest out of the entire series.
sprengerguido
Although this is an oasis of calm and beauty in the midst of the BMW-series of mostly violent car chases, it is not particularly good as a Wong Kar-Wai film. It's the first time he worked from somebody else's script, and one of the few times he worked from a script at all. The supposedly strict production frame of BMW did not allow for his usual approach of improvisation and intuition. Although Andrew Kevin Walker tailormade his script to fit Wong - taking inspiration from his other movies, mostly CHUNGKING EXPRESS - Wong does not manage to deliver more than a weak clone of himself. The vibrant energy and subtle emotion of his other work is mostly absent here. No wonder he only has himself credited as WKW...
ghettoracer
excellent monologue, beautifully filmed, with great music. short and a perfect 10 from me. just flawless.i wish i can write more eloquently about it. wkw manages to develop the characters quite well and the story is complete. the other films are pretty good, but everyone else seems to agree this one stands out.
Apophis
If you have not seen any of the short films, stop reading right now and go watch them. Far from being just a bunch of car commercials, they feature popular directors like Guy Ritchie and Ang Lee, and are really intriguing.That said, I think "The Follow" is the best of this series, and that says a lot. Directed by Wong Kar-Wai, and starring the impeccably cast Clive Owen, this short film differs from the others in that it mixes action, intelligence, and emotion, rather than simply a car chase.The character of the Driver (Owen) is developed very well, in my opinion. He is shown to have his own ethics and standards, and is more that just a good driver.It also features Mickey Rourke and Forest Whitaker in supporting roles.