High Velocity

Would-be hoo-rah actioner that, barring one wild car chase, withholds all the expected satisfactions in favour of a seething attack on Western capitalist exploitation abroad. Early buddy-buddy shit is laid on a little thick, maybe all the better for the gutpunch conclusion, remarkably fatalistic even for the era of downbeat chic that produced it. Some effort and skill apparent in the visuals (and that is one hell of a bold cold open) but the only (?) circulating copy is nearly unwatchable.