Such a frustrating disappointment

So much average

Best movie ever!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

So we have a truck chasing a guy around in a parking garage. Well, I like the choice of vehicle which is a mid-80's K-5 Chevrolet Blazer. I know because I used to own one. These trucks are very tough and dependable.However...it would Never have smashed through a concrete pillar in the garage because those things are tied together with steel rebar inside. But, it looks cool for the movies.The guy ran from the truck and could have very easily been run over, but I suppose the driver was just toying with him. OK, that works too.What I hate the most and cost a vote for a higher number, is the damn dubbing for the sound of the truck. Horrible. A K-5 Blazer does NOT sound like that. I just can't stand when they do that. Heck, you can record the actual sound of the truck and dub it in for the sake of volume control.The stunts were pretty cool and the acting wasn't half bad. Overall I gave it a 6. Good film for a night at the house with nothing on television and certainly better than some of the other crap on Netflix.

This low budget suspense thriller is a great example of what more low budget filmmakers should strive for. Throttle is a solid idea underlying a well thought out story and brought to life by a capable cast and crew. It's got just enough sizzle to hold the audience's attention and just enough substance to make them care about how things turn out. It's neither self-indulgent nor self-referential and it doesn't try too hard. This is a good and solid piece of entertainment.Tom Weaver (Grayson McCouch) works at a financial company. He seems to have a great job and a beautiful wife named Molly (Amy Locane). It's not all that it seems, though. Tom thinks his wife is cheating on him and he's about to conspire with his smarmy co-worker Gavin (Adrian Paul) on a scheme to steal 10 million dollars and transfer it into offshore accounts. Tom and Gavin meet one night at their offices to pull off the scam and seemingly succeed. But then Tom finds himself trapped in the bottom level of the building's underground parking garage, pursued by a man in a souped-up black truck who wants to kill Tom and anyone else who gets in his way.It wouldn't be far off to say this movie is like Duel in a parking garage. However, Throttle does not make the classic mistake of being nothing but a clever concept. Good stories generally have secondary conflicts and relationships woven through and around the concept, in this case it being Tom's relationship with Molly and his inner conflict over the criminal act he's committed. Those elements not only flesh out the film so it's more than a guy running hither and yon in fear of his life, they also give you a reason to care about the guy and whether or not he gets killed. Too many movies simply assume the audience's interest in their main character and never give you any reason to identify with him or root for her to succeed.Throttle also looks very good. In fairness, this isn't all that cheap a production as low budget filmmaking goes. There's more stunt work and destruction here than could be paid for with a couple of credit cards. But no matter how much money you have and no matter what level of skill you possess, you can always make things look good by working within your limitations. This film has just a few action sequences and the rest is good camera placement and sharp editing. A lot of the shots are pretty basic, but they're arranged and executed with talent and vision. Visuals don't have to be complex to be compelling. These filmmakers take maximum advantage of their parking garage setting and something as ordinary as bright light to create some impressive imagery.Now, it's not like the movie is perfect. It indulges in too many flashbacks, particularly ones that remind us of stuff previously shown in the film. The killer also has way too much motivation and spends too much time explaining it all. There's also an unnecessary does of extra drama squeezed into the conclusion.Throttle is an exciting and scary tale told with a little intelligence and a lot of craft. The people who made this movie are people who should make movies for a living. You can't say that about many low budget filmmakers.

This one might be too high concept for its own good. It's part high-tech heist film--or to make that appropriately lighter, the end of Office Space (1999), part adulterous thriller, part slasher/stalker, and part Duel (1971), Christine (1983), Maximum Overdrive (1986)/Trucks (1997), Joy Ride (2001) and Black Cadillac (2003), almost all set in a parking garage to save money.As inherently silly as that mixture might be, it could work if written, directed and acted carefully enough. With the exception of Dan Mundell as Eddie, who is delightfully campy and over the top--he almost reminded me of Don Knotts as a bizarre Barney Fife, the performances in Throttle are nothing to write home about, but they're good enough. And director James Seale has the mechanics of basic thriller and slasher/stalker scenes down pat. Those two facets make this film almost work. Almost.What kills it is the script. Unfortunately, Seale was also one of the writers, along with Neil Elman, but the principal cast is also partly to blame, because they should have caught the problems with the script at various stages of making the film. For example, we're shown that the lead character, Tom Weaver (Grayson McCouch) is trapped in an office building's parking garage. His car has been disabled. But this is a parking garage that people are still using, meaning that they're driving their cars out of it--we see people leaving their offices and getting in their cars to go home, and there are one or two security guards on duty. For most of the film, you keep asking yourself, "Okay, why doesn't he just walk down the ramps and out of the garage? How stupid is this guy?" He actually begs people to give him a ride out of the garage, but it never hits him to just simply walk the path that cars would take.Well, it turns out that there's not only a security "turnpike" bar in the garage, but also a gate that can be closed and not driven through. Also, there's a reason that the security guards might not open or be able to open the gate. But we're not shown either of these facts until almost the end of film--and they wouldn't make much sense until then. But that's bad writing, because we need a reason that Tom can't or wouldn't try to just walk out of the garage right away, near the beginning of the film . . . at least if we're not to conclude that he must have been lobotomized. Additionally, there's a red herring character that got into the garage somehow, so that somewhat negates the reasons that Tom couldn't have just walked out.This kind of writing plagues the whole film. Another example--a truck is chasing Tom through the garage, trying to run him over, and he frequently just stands in the way, even though the garage is filled with obstacles that a vehicle couldn't easily go around (or through), like other cars and concrete pillars. Tom keeps making inane decisions like that, even at the very end of the film, but I don't want to detail them all. Besides I don't have room. Detailing them all would take many thousands of words. Suffice it to say that Seale and Elman have given us maybe the dumbest protagonist ever.So aside from enjoying scenes where Seale gets his directorial mechanics right--things work often enough on the "trees" level despite the protagonist's inanity (and heck, some people just are stupid and why can't we show them in films?), and aside from enjoying a creative way to keep the budget way down--at least this isn't another "people running through the woods" film, any enjoyment you get out of Throttle is likely to see just how stupid and ridiculous it can get, and it does tend to keep topping itself in that department. Because of this, it may be worth seeing for fans of "so bad it's good" films, but everyone else should avoid it.

Hi, I just finished watching this movie for the first time. All i can say is WOW! It's brilliant in every way. An excellent gripping plot, superb acting, great stunts and fantastic suspense! The film is clearly based on Spielbergs masterpiece, Duel (1971). It even has the main character from the movie featured in this one as a small cameo! It's full of other links, and the score has similar parts also.You really get involved in the action with this movie, and you'll be on the edge of your seat all the way!A fantastic ending, with a great twist tops off the rest of the movie.Extremely well worth watching!