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The crew discusses recent games such as Wheelman, Wanted: Weapons of Fate, Monsters vs. Aliens, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time, and Guitar Hero: Metallica.

Grillo is best known for his roles in the Captain America and Purge franchises along with leads in the critically - acclaimed DirecTV series KINGDOM and film Wheelman for Netflix, which he also produced.

Ryan Gosling stars as «The Driver,» an expert wheelman who works as a getaway driver, grease monkey, Hollywood stuntman, and would - be stock - car racer.

The entry list for the 1966 running of the Motor Trend 500 NASCAR race at Riverside International Raceway read like a who's who of iconic stock - car stars, as well as talented wheelmen from other racing disciplines: Richard Petty, A.J. Foyt, Cale Yarborough, Mario Andretti, David Pearson, Tiny Lund, Bobby Allison, Dick Guldstrand and many, many more.

As with Ryan Gosling's schizophrenic wheelman in Drive, Jesse's spiritual metamorphosis dovetails with a sharp tonal shift which plunges us into murkier, more explicitly violent waters.

The setup: Ryan Gosling, on a wonderful streak with «Blue Valentine» and «Crazy Stupid Love,» is a stunt driver by day and criminal wheelman by night, who falls in love with a parolee's wife (Cary Mulligan).

Just picture that, but with his Fast and Furious co-star Vin Diesel and you have a rough outline of the fate of Wheelman.

As a rental, however, Wheelman offers some decent thrills.

Vin plays an «expert wheelman who comes out of retirement to protect a woman from his past.»

If you're a criminal wheelman, your payday is dependent on your ability to evade the cops.

Frank Grillo will get in the driver's seat for the action thriller Wheelman written and directed by Jeremy Rush.

You can save Wheelman if you like Vin Diesel.

That said, while those three aforementioned films have managed to receive acclaim and attention, Netflix's Wheelman received little to no buzz.

Wheelman spans the course of one night, and takes place almost entirely within the front seat of Grillo's car.

Wheelman eventually shifts one gear too many in its third act, but these few minor sins are forgivable because everything that came before them is so much damn fun.

You sense Roskam is trying to evoke Ryan Gosling's nameless wheelman from Drive here, but the only notable point of comparison between these two complex antiheroes is that Hardy happens to be sporting this season's must - have jacket.

His crew, wheelman Tennyson (Rory McCann, Game of Thrones), sniper Adele (Ruby Rose) and party man Nicks (Kris Wu), don't offer much beyond stuffing the film with too many characters.

An all - purpose wheelman, Gosling also works as a Hollywood stuntman, a grease monkey, and a would - be stock - car racer, and his talent attracts the interest of a vicious local mob boss — played, in an inspired piece of casting, by Albert Brooks.

Wheelman Genre: Action / Thriller Directed by: Jeremy Rush Starring: Frank Grillo, Garret Dillahunt, Wendy Moniz, Caitlin Carmichael, John Cenatiempo, Slaine, William Xifaras, Seth Ayott, Precious White, Mike Fierro, Jessica Rockwood, Ken Murray, Jeffery Kincannon, Leah Procito, Steven Rears, Mike Koutrobis Release Date: October 20, 2017

Set in Atlanta, albeit with the city looking (slightly) nicer than it did in last year's Triple 9, it centres on «Baby», a near - mute wheelman played by Ansel Elgort at his most, well, baby - faced.

Based on the 2005 book by James Sallis, Ryan Gosling (Fracture, Half Nelson) stars as a Hollywood stunt driver by day and heist wheelman for the highest bidder at night (hereby called «The Driver» for this review) in this dramatic thriller directed with skill by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Valhalla Rising).

Ryan Gosling stars as a movie stunt driver who moonlights as a by - appointment - only wheelman for crooks who lack their own wheels.

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«Baby Driver,» from Edgar Wright, upended heist - movie tropes, choreographing action to match the tunes in the earbuds of its music - obsessed wheelman (Ansel Elgort).

The story is high - concept and simple like many of these kinds of thrillers: Ethan Hawke plays a former racecar driver - turned - wheelman whose wife is kidnapped on Christmas by a mysterious Bulgarian voice on the end of a phone (played by Jon Voight's stubbled lips).

Hawke does what he can to inject energy into his lifeless wheelman role, but can only go so far.

The Kingdom and Captain America: Civil War star plays the eponymous wheelman, a getaway driver thrust into a high stakes race - to - survive after a bank robbery goes terribly wrong.

What happens when a Hollywood stunt driver by day and hired wheelman by night suddenly finds himself falling in love while a hit on him is placed after a job gone wrong?

Because of its cutting - edge status, some of the greatest drivers of all time found their way behind the wheel of this Lancia, including legendary wheelmen Juan Manuel Fangio and Alberto Ascari, the latter of whom piloted this Lancia to an overall victory at the 1953 Carrera Panamericana.

With top wheelman Piero Taruffi at the helm, the car was excellent until transmission troubles stymied a podium finish.

And like the consummate wheelman he is, Cross doesn't immediately jump to warp speed but slowly winds it up, using as much of the road as visibility will permit, exercising more of the supercharged 4.2 - litre V8's 410bhp down the short straights, braking deeper into bends, punching harder out of them.

Resident wheelman Randy Pobst confirms the same tail - happy nature of the M4 on the track, though the M4 edges the Camaro out slightly with a 0.2 - second advantage on track.

It puts up a bigger fight than most of the classic sports car gladiators, and its often dramatic handling habits require a seasoned wheelman as well as fearless passengers.

Seeing a keen sportsman stuff his Birdcage Maserati into a hay bale the previous day, along with the lack of a seatbelt and my utter unfamiliarity with the hill - climb route, led me to drive the D - type as if I were transporting human organs to an operating theater rather than keeping pace with Jackie Stewart, Stirling Moss, and some of the other accomplished wheelmen who'd pound the pavement that weekend like they meant it.

The seventh long - form drifting commercial «Gymkhana 7» hit the interwebs this morning featuring the dead sexy, all - wheel - drive Hoonicorn Mustang and bankable wheelman Ken Block.

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His most recent work was as a Senior Mission Designer on Midway's driving title Wheelman.

The League of American Bicyclists, also know as The League, has been advocating for bicyclists since they were called wheelmen back in 1880.

Having the exact age isn't crucial — car insurance rates really don't start going down until age 25 — but luckily Elgort is 23 years old (that's right, our movie wheelmen are now born in the «90s), so we used that to get Baby's rates.

The crew members are able to specialize in different areas such as wheelman, gunman, technician, and so on.

As a rental, however, Wheelman offers some decent thrills.

If you're not interested in spending an evening in Stephen King - land, Netflix has plenty of other new options out today, including the car chase thriller Wheelman and The Day I Met El Chapo: The Kate del Castillo Story, a Netflix Original about the surprising relationship between a soap opera star and the infamous drug lord.

Brooklyn state Sen. Marty Golden tried to pull over a bicyclist by impersonating a cop — and then his wheelman ran a red light and drove into oncoming traffic to get away when the cyclist snapped the pol's picture, according to the cyclist.

Netflix knows you can only binge watch «Friends» so many times before you hit up one of their original series or movies; enter their new film, «Wheelman.»

Like the bastard love child of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive and Michael Mann's Collateral (with a little Thief thrown in for good measure), Wheelman has Frank Grillo as a getaway driver who gets in way over his head.

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This may not sound entirely appealing, yet Wheelman is full of surprises that keep the premise constantly afloat.