One Fast Move Review: Daddy Issues Go Vroom

One Fast Move Review | Leisurebyte

Director: Kelly Blatz

Date Created: 2024-08-08 12:30

Editor's Rating:
1.5

Amazon Prime Video’s newest release is an action-adventure film where we follow Wes Neal, a struggling young man who tries to find his father in hopes of becoming a professional motorcycle racer. With the help of his love interest Camila and a motorcycle shop owner/mentor, he tries to realise his dreams while also dealing with feelings of abandonment from his father’s absence.

The film has a runtime of 118 minutes.

One Fast Move Review

Right off the bat, with Riverdale star KJ Apa racing with fellow bikers and that god-awful background score blaring, viewers will realise that One Fast Move is Prime Video’s latest cash-grab attempt. In the next scene, we see Apa’s Wes Neal being more interested in knowing whether he will be getting his bike back rather than learning about whether or not he’s going to get a job. Clearly, he’s a grungy and hurting man with daddy issues and this movie is going to let us know how he will overcome that and realise his dreams. Whatever you may have conjured up in your mind about this action-adventure flick is exactly what you will get – nothing more and nothing less. And it’s all so bleak and disheartening.

The film delivers neither emotional depth nor the thrill of the race. It doesn’t go big like Fast & the Furious and doesn’t give us something outlandish to gasp and laugh at. It’s severely and painfully mid in every way possible, making it a slow and boring watch through and through. This is clearly a film that gives us Wes’s journey to fulfilment but you don’t relate to him nor do you care about him for most of the runtime. It’s mostly because the movie doesn’t bother making him anything more than the boy with daddy issues which, at this point, has become a stale and unimpressive hurdle to cross for protagonists in films.

The film, thus, gives him a chance to find a direction in life along with fulfilment and, in that respect, his relationship with Dean forms the basis of the emotional aspect. For most of the runtime, Eric Dane, playing Dean, looks bored and uncomfortable. The conversations that the two have, that might look very deep and all, are surface-level at best and boring at worst. Actually, I can say that about any of the conversations that take place in the film. There is hardly any chemistry between Wes and Camila as well, his small-town crush who works at the diner. Their first date is so boring and it’s filled with cliches wherein Wes insists that he can’t dance and her imploring him to shake a leg. It’s cringy and unimpressive.

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Apart from having no chemistry or emotions, the movie hardly has any thrilling moments that will make your heart beat fast. For some reason, the races feel sort of watered down and without thrills that don’t hit the spot. The moment of the win is supposed to be exhilarating for both the protagonist and the viewers but for some reason, it doesn’t feel like that here. I guess it doesn’t hit the sweet spot because you don’t see what can be lost because of this dream and madness for motorcycles for us to feel happy when he does achieve them.

The sequences, whether it be with Camila, Dean or on the track, are slow and even though there are moments of emotions peppered in, audiences can sense that the movie isn’t trying to make any sort of an impression. Maybe that’s why poor Camila’s character is just there to push Wes forward in his life – she is made to be nothing more than that. Also, it doesn’t help that Dean is a bit of a prick. Either way, the film plays on familiar tropes and situations and adds nothing new that will make you want to root for it. You can’t help but wonder about the point of everything as you reach the mid-point.

Final Thoughts

Prime Video’s One Fast Move is excruciatingly mid, leaving you thoroughly confused about the point of it all. Unimpressive in every story point that it brings forth, the film doesn’t deliver anything memorable and the fact that it has no personality definitely doesn’t help at all. All in all, a totally forgettable affair.

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