Neutered autistic psychopathic geek goes cruising

Rating: 8/10 (24 January 2012)

Cute film about a cute geek who is just SO good with cars (he tinkers with car parts at night in his geeky apartment). However, he has the emotional capacity of the average haddock. All that seems to change when a cute neighbour with a cute little boy smiles wistfully at him... repeatedly. Now, the geek was just so happy driving cars and repairing cars and dreaming about cars. But those lingering looks cause all hell to break loose, just after a chaste Jules & Jim interlude, but the geek never loses his cool. He even (gulp!) kisses the girl, but it could be that it's just a ploy to get himself in the right position to stomp out a would-be assassin's jugular vein. In fact, anyone who upsets him winds up leaking red liquids. And anyone who really pleases him gets rewarded with a half-smile. The baddies in this film are REALLY bad, and they all die atrocious deaths. The Geek will never die; he'll go to a really cool other place, probably in a '72 Mustang. Despite all that, this is one of the films to see this year. It's going to be a big trend-setter: get ready to see loads of adolescents start wearing driving gloves, sticking toothpicks between their incisors and taking up a 100% bland attitude.