The rest of the evening, our hero is careening around the city, disposing of bodies, blasting his way out of one shoot-out, and engineering a deal that will square him with the mob. Eventually, he reaches his usual handler, Clay (Garret Dillahunt of 'Looper'), and he learns that things have gone sideways. Frantically, 'Wheelman' puts the hammer down and leaves the two hoods standing in the parking lot. This unknown dude warns him that the two robbers have been told to stash the cash in the trunk and then shoot him. On the phone, 'Wheelman,' who has been struggling to reach the guy who usually sets up his jobs, winds up speaking to another guy. The two gunmen put on masks and head for the bank. As things unfold, 'Wheelman' isn't entirely clear about what he is going to be doing, and his tough-talking, gun-wielding passengers want to know his name.

During the movie, our hero keeps chatting to a number of people on his cell phone.

Indeed, it is a bad night for an anonymous ex-con known only as 'Wheelman,' and things get off on the wrong foot when he shows up in a conspicuous looking car with a red trunk to chauffeur two thugs, one white and crazy and the other black, to rob a bank after hours. Clocking in at 82 minutes, 'Wheelman' is basically pared down to grim essentials. Imagine the Tom Hardy movie 'Locke' combined with Luc Besson's 'Transporter' thrillers, and you've got the essence of this gripping, often claustrophobic nail-biter that casts Grillo as the eponymous protagonist. Writer & director Jeremy Rush has fashioned a fine neo-noir actioneer with 'Wheelman,' a Netflix Original, that 'Smokin' Aces' helmer Joe Carnahan produced and toplines 'End of Watch' actor Frank Grillo. The sidebar story with the thirteen year old daughter and the ex-wife was thrown in for added suspense I guess, but what would it have mattered to the guy on the phone calling the shots if Wheelman himself didn't bring them into the picture? I don't know, it didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, and to top it all off, we never did get to see what Wheelman's getaway car looked like. Not that it mattered, because Clay got himself accidentally killed wrestling over a gun with Wheelman. I thought the motorcycle guy who kept his distance behind Wheelman in the tunnel was an intriguing character, but he didn't last long enough to find out if he was connected to the anonymous voice or to Wheelman's original handler Clay (Garret Dillahunt). What followed was basically an hour and a half of screen time taken up by a car ride with an obligatory vehicle chase thrown in. To my mind, the story never really delivered on the plot it originally laid out with the anonymous voice calling Wheelman (Frank Grillo) from an unknown location.

It's been about twenty four hours since I watched the movie and I'm still wondering what the point was.

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