One Way

### **Produced by**

Andrew Baird, Martin Brennan, Jib Polhemus, Ryan Donnell Smith, Tim Palmer, Nathan Klingher, Ryan Winterstern

### **Studio**

23ten, Baird Films, Ignition Film Productions, Bay Point Media, Short Porch Pictures

### **Rating**

R

***One Way*** is an American action thriller film directed by Andrew Baird and starring Machine Gun Kelly, Kevin Bacon, Travis Fimmel, and Storm Reid. It was released to cinemas and through video on demand in the United States on September 2, 2022.

## Synopsis

After robbing his former crime boss, a badly wounded man goes on the run with a duffle bag full of cash and drugs. After hopping a bus to the California desert, he must devise a plan to escape his pursuers.

## Plot

When a robbery goes wrong, Freddy Sullivan (Colson Baker) is shot in the stomach. Now on the run from his lover and crime boss Victoria Menendez (Drea de Matteo), Freddy boards a bus with his stolen bag full of cash and cocaine. Desperate, he tries to get help from his estranged father (Kevin Bacon) but gets betrayed. Meanwhile, a fellow bus rider, Rachel (Storm Reid), asks to borrow Freddy's phone. He learns that she's meeting a man, Smokie, whom she met online without knowing his real identity. Social worker Will (Travis Fimmel) overhears the conversation and tries to get Freddy to convince Rachel to call off the meeting. Meanwhile, Freddy is losing a lot of blood and is starting to see things. Key conflicts in the film are Freddy's father being in a relationship with Victoria, and Freddy having a rare blood type that requires his father to donate blood to survive.

## Cast

* Colson Baker as Frederick "Freddy" Sullivan
* Kevin Bacon as Fred Sullivan Sr.
* Travis Fimmel as Will
* Drea de Matteo as Victoria Menendez
* Storm Reid as Rachel
* Luis Da Silva as JJ
* Rhys Coiro as Coco
* Meagan Holder as Christine
* Danny Bohnen as Oleg
* Scotty Bohnen as Caleb
* Thomas Francis Murphy as Patrick
* Casie Baker as Lily

## Critical reception

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 36% approval rating from critics based on 11 reviews. Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film an average score of 46 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Leslie Felperin of *The Guardian* said, "Baker, with his scrawny frame and ratty features, can actually act, although he's consistently upstaged by young Reid, as the stronger performer and the one with the more interesting character story here." *Los Angeles Times*' Noel Murray criticizes, "The film is a case study in why critics say "show, don't tell." It's 90 minutes of people talking about routine gangster stuff, peppered with occasional gunfire." Ferdosa Abdi from *Screen Rant* gave a mixed review and wrote: "*One Way* has good ideas, an ambitious director and a committed actor behind it. Baker is undoubtedly going places beyond straight-to-VOD releases" and added, "*One Way* won't carve a place into the crime thriller pantheon, but its most notable achievement should be setting the stage for Andrew Baird and Colson Baker's inevitable rises in the film industry." Jeffrey M. Anderson of *Common Sense Media* stated, "Baker steps it up here, giving a fairly cohesive performance, but unfortunately this thriller can't satisfyingly balance its disparate plot elements and doesn't generate much suspense."

## Soundtrack

1. "Daddy Died with His Turquoise On" – Zachariah & the Lobos Riders
2. "Let the Devil Ride" – Zachariah & the Lobos Riders
3. "New Suit for My Hangin'" – Zachariah & the Lobos Riders
4. "Honey'd Up" – Royce Wood Junior

## References

1. ↑ McNeal, Bira (August 4, 2022). "Machine Gun Kelly Is on the Run in 'One Way' Trailer". *Nylon*.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Anderson, Jeffrey (2022). "One Way". *Common Sense Media*.
3. ↑ Tapp, Tom (August 4, 2022). "'One Way' Trailer: Colson "Machine Gun Kelly" Baker Is on the Run From a Menacing Crime Boss". *Deadline*.
4. ↑ *One Way* Rotten Tomatoes
5. ↑ "One Way Reviews". *Metacritic*. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
6. ↑ Felperin, Leslie (August 30, 2022). "One Way review – Machine Gun Kelly gets on board for coach-bound crime thriller". *The Guardian*.
7. ↑ Murray, Noel (September 2, 2022). "Review: Hugh Bonneville of ‘Downton Abbey' plays against type in thriller ‘I Came By'". *Los Angeles Times*.
8. ↑ Abdi, Ferdosa (September 2, 2022). "One Way Review: Good Instincts & Ideas Overcome Thriller's Weak Script". *Screen Rant*.

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