But it is what it is, not all films are gonna be skillfully made and that's a fact of life. And it's not like the rest of the flashbacks in the lead-up to the group finding themselves underwater are any better, they jump all over the place when it comes to chronology and it's not done in that clever Tarantino way, where he plays with your expectations and turns them around on you, it's done in an unskilled manner. They don't establish anything that bleeds into the next flashback with the bodyguard's brother. There's seriously no rhyme or reason for these flashbacks. In the next flashback, he's getting into fights with bullies, with literally no mention of him having problems with bullies prior to this, then in the next flashback he's a drug dealer and in the last flashback he kills himself. Not that they were terrible, I mean they weren't good, I'm just saying the fact that in one flashback, the bodyguard's brother is happy. The bodyguard in question, really the main character, has this brother and they do flashbacks with him spending time with his brother that are literally the worst thing I've ever seen. The film also does a shitty job at establishing a timeline, since there are flashbacks used as lead-up to how they found themselves in this situation, but they are absolutely THE worst part of the film. The film is a fight against time as, somehow, they're stuck in a situation that they're able to get out of before the limo is pushed out to the ocean, they don't do a great job at explaining this, but let's just go with what they said. Essentially, the film sees a group of friends and a bodyguard, hired to protect his boss', the businessman in question, daughter, find themselves stuck underwater in a stretch limo after being driven off-road by people trying to kidnap someone in exchange for ransom. But that part of the concept isn't revealed until much later. It does play into the whole social structure and how rich businessmen do whatever they with the lives of the people they employ and how that can create some resentment towards the businessmen themselves, even if they aren't as heartless as some people might see them as. This isn't a very good movie in spite of a decent concept.
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