Overdrive

Two-half brothers, who specialise in nabbing rare sports cars to order, tangle with a ruthless Marseille-based crime lord in this French-made English-language action thriller. An attractive young cast, wise-cracking dialogue and high-speed driving can make for a lucrative box-office combination, as the Fast and Furious franchise amply demonstrates, but this also-ran affair struggles to achieve the same winning combination with a clunky script, a marked shortage of adrenaline and decidedly wooden performers. Scott Eastwood (American, buff, taciturn) and Freddie Thorp (English,weaselly, motormouth) make little impression as the preening leads, charged with nicking a gleaming 1962 Ferrari coupé or Simon Abkarian's ascot-wearing Mr Big will terminate the pair of them. All of which sets us up for much dreary exposition, sundry sunny Riviera locations and a roster of classic cars from Jaguar, Porsche et al, which display a good deal more charisma than anything else on screen. Forgettable in the extreme.