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Highly Overrated But Still Good

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The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Transit is a must watch, the plot is fast-paced and is literally constantly on the road except for a couple of scenes at a motel.The performances are great and intense, the only problem is the swearing, the writers should have calmed down a bit with that or the editors could have done a bit more work in the editing room. The curse words were too over the top at times.There's a scene that is unexpected and is basically a twist in the movie.The cinematography is artistic with the green tint throughout.Transit is more of a road thriller than an action thriller, there are some guns involved but not enough for it to be labelled an action movie.

There's not much to be said because this is just one of those slopped together movies (no offense) that they release to stall for other movies or just a failed attempt at some sort of blockbuster, which then also turns into one of those clichés with predictable outcomes like "the bag is gone" "the villain comes at the most predictable moment to shoot someone or something" "they all make it through at the end alive with minor loss", and of course "the villain dies at the end". Now no offense to those actors but there were times were the just just blew it like what they said or did, what they could of did, the consequences, ETC. so it's just pretty much one of those average low effort/budget with cheap and unforgiving thrills the die out at the worst times.

Good premise, decent acting. Maybe if you're smoking dope (a lot of dope) this movie would make some sense. At least the film was consistent - every one of the characters' choices made no sense whatever. It's like one of those horror films where all the victims set themselves up to be murdered. I wouldn't recommend this film to a dog. My dog watched for 15 minutes and fell asleep. From the attempt to run the family off the road, to the husband taking off into the swamp for NO apparent reason. Lots of nonsensical automatic weapons. The plant of an idea with the wedding band, gave me a slight hope of foreshadowing but alas, the husband acted more like it was a paper cut. I don't blame the actors, but the direction and the writing. Somebody should have been looking over their shoulders saying "no, no that does not make sense". Oh yes, was the van overheating or not?

"Seconds Apart" director Antonio Negret generates some genuine adrenaline-charged thrills, chills, and spills in his second feature length release. The Louisiana-based crime thriller "Transit" qualifies as an exciting road picture about four murderous thieves who tangle with an innocent family in rural Louisiana over a fortune in stolen loot. The chief shortcomings of this above-average but formulaic melodrama is its idiotic villains and the lackluster ending that deprives the protagonist of any reward for his heroic deeds. The villains aren't the brightest bulbs in the box, but they manage to be menacing. Fortunately, the cast is convincing, particularly Jim Caviezel as the devastated dad who only wants his family together again and James Frain as the desperate villain. The parish authorities are clueless about what is happening between the heroes and the villains. Ironically, the lawmen only complicate matters and imperil our hero and his family. Frain looks exceptionally degenerate as the sleazy gang leader, while Harold Perrineau registers intensely as a trigger-happy henchman."According to Greta" scenarist Michael Gilvary has cross-stitched the plots from the Dana Andrews' opus "Hot Rods to Hell"(1967) and the white-knuckled Audrey Hepburn epic "Wait Until Dark" (1967). In 'Hot Rods to Hell," rebellious teens terrorized a family on a deserted stretch of highway. In "Wait Until Dark," a deadly drug dealer stashed his narcotics in the blind heroine's luggage for a transoceanic flight. After she landed, the villains invaded her New York apartment to retrieve them. In "Transit," a quartet of reckless armored car robbers need to get past a police roadblock. They replace the camping gear strapped down to the top of the Sidwell family SUV with their ill-gotten gains. Initially, our heroes have no clue about the dastards after them. Marek (James Frain of "Titus"), Arielle (Diora Baird of "Wedding Crashers"), Losada (Harold Perrineaus of "The Matrix Revolutions"), and Evers (Ryan Donowho of "Broken Flowers") have fooled themselves into believing that they can retrieve their loot from the unsuspecting family before they realize that they've been used as a mule.Naturally, nothing goes right for either side, and those moments are the most dramatic. The conflict arises from this predicament but there is more at stake than the loot that the felons have stolen. Our hero Nate (Jim Caviezel of "Outlander") has just been paroled from prison. He served time for real estate fraud. Now, Nate is struggling to get his wife Robyn (Elisabeth Röhm of "Abduction") and sons together for a vacation when they run afoul of the bad guys. Robyn isn't entirely happy with Nate and she isn't sure that he has changed his way. Indeed, some of the action will take you by surprise. Neither Negret nor Gilvary make it a picnic for either the heroes or their adversaries. No sooner do the villains have the loot than they lose it. Not long after the hero appropriates the millions, he loses it in the swamp. Never hide a bag of loot in the hollow of a tree. The black 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle that the villains careen around in assumes a character of its own, and the long shots of Chevelle hauling down the highway look as cool as the spinning tire shots. Negret handles the chase sequences with aplomb. The car crash involving the Sheriff Deputy's Crown Victoria is awesome. "Transit" never wears out its welcome.