"Vanishing Point" did it better (minor spoilers)

Rating: 4/10 (19 October 2012)

Overrated. Nihilistic and pretentious. The main characters were all one-note caricatures with no redeeming values. The driver was a complete cipher. Every character except him had a brief scene where he (or she) revealed one thing about his past that gave his choices and actions some context. Thus, when the driver lashes out into extreme violence halfway through the film, the viewer has no peg to hang the actions on, and no reason to continue sympathizing with him - he's just as brutal a scumbag as every other character, except we don't know why he is what he is. All we know about him is what we see on the screen, and it's not very pretty.
I could have accepted it as a stylish genre exercise - a comic-book movie - except the too-hip-for-you artsiness blew that right out of the water. Didn't work as an art film, didn't work as a heist/car flick. No moral center at all.