We all know the rule about Netflix: It’s Left-wing propaganda. There’s a reason they’re on the Traitors of America master list. They don’t have your best interest in mind, and their main goal is to deconstruct your resolve in protecting Western values. However, even the executives at Netflix understand that they can’t produce non-stop Liberal-Progressive degeneracy and expect to maintain subscriptions from straight, white males. So every once in a while they put out quality content, such as Spectral, Extraction or the French action-car chase flick, Lost Bullet.
The film follows a mechanical engineering savant who manages to turn vehicles into marvelous contraptions that serve usually criminal purposes. He’s busted by the cops after a failed robbery, but instead of doing time in the pen, he’s given an opportunity to help police catch other vehicular wrongdoers by fine-tuning their cars and upgrading their rides. However, he’s framed for a crime he didn’t commit, and it’s up to him to prove his own innocence.
The trailer gives away the entire film, but it’s still pretty cool looking. Also, the fact that they go for grounded practical effects instead of the over-the-top silliness present in Fast & Furious films makes it look like a real treat for fans of the car chase genre.
It reminds me a lot of Soi Cheang’s Hong Kong action film about a street racer turned cop called Motorway.
However, in Motorway it was all about skilled stationary drifting and being able to make impossible turns in extremely tight spaces due to the narrow streets of Hong Kong. It was a pretty cool film.
Here with Lost Bullet, the focus is more on mods for production cars that allow them to go over and beyond what they’re typically capable of doing.
I imagine if you were a fan of Walter Hill’s The Driver, Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, or Gérard Pirès original 1998 classic, Taxi, then you might enjoy Lost Bullet.
But take note, this is still a Netflix film, and that means that even if the trailer isn’t filled to the brim with pozz the movie might still attempt to subvert your expectations. Heck, there’s already a black female cop in the film, and we all know how unrealistic that is in France.