One Way
When he is n’t ruffle down a red carpeting with his supremely gifted partner , Megan Fox , or swapping his rapper role for a rock ‘n’ roll musician one , Machine Gun Kelly , aka Colson Baker , is a movie star in the fashioning . One Wayis one of those low - budget motion picture that is done a ill turn by a shoddy prevue and a unbowed - to - VOD release , entomb under the bombination of the fall film festival season and following a sad hebdomad at the summertime box authority . In actuality , One Wayis a fairly decent watch that is probably best in the comfort of one ’s home . It is a moving-picture show that has more good ideas than in force execution . However , it accomplishes one matter : It devote the audience a better look at the natural endowment that rest in the ever - evolving Baker .
InOne Way , Colson Baker plays Freddy , a lifelong outlaw who finds himself in a bad spot . He has stolen from the fully grown crime syndicate boss in town and is bleed out from a gunfire wounding . His last one - fashion slate to freedom has him boarding a bus where he meets a young laugher ( Storm Reid ) and a mysterious rider ( Travis Fimmel ) , who both process as substantive figures on what might be his last night on earth . Freddy ’s journey is bleak , but maybe he can pull through .
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Director Andrew Baird ’s camera work is dizzying , by choice cranking up the uneasiness and stress that threatens to overtake Freddy if the bullet wounding does n’t take him out first . Baird intends to provide the same pulsating disorderly vigour thatthe Safdie Brothersprovided withUncut GemsandGood Time . The executing has an unskilled tone , but all the veracious instincts are there , and Baird do on them . There is just a motivation for restraint and less reliance on near - ups .
One Wayis a schematic film , and as it carries on , each archetype becomes well-to-do to identify , and the course of the story is speedily reveal . Ben Conway ’s script is perhaps what undermines an otherwise fine crime thriller . The authorship that Baird is working with is empty . It lacks dimensions or follow - through for the better ideas in the story . For instance , there is no need to have the cinema set anywhere other than the bus . A single - locating thriller with a do-or-die vernal man whose spirit depends on whether he can break away his unpitying boss — who is never realise and only get word over the earpiece — would answer . The tot up emotional and moral dilemma Freddy faces with his fellow passengers also needed to be fleshed out , which would have extend to an self-examining character journey and not a typical crime thriller .
The film is at its dear when it becomes a account about Freddy ’s moral quandary , most notably shew through his interactions with Storm Reid ’s underaged runaway , who is being groom , and Travis Fimmel ’s social worker . Freddy is dying , losing blood speedily ( a detail that is handily unnoticed by the autobus driver ) . As he sits and awaits salvation or dying , he need to reflect . The work done on the bus is perhaps the good from the script , and Conway could have pushed further to get even deeper . upraise the bet by unfurling the layers that make up Freddy is apposite to the overall tale . cutaway to his angered hirer or the people he speaks to on the phone are distraction . While building the danger by chasing him is indispensable , the fib could have been effectively told with these figures remaining as unembodied voice , a tactic well used in Steven Knight’sLocke .
Colson Baker as Freddy in One Way
One Wayhas good estimate , an challenging director and a attached worker behind it . Baker is undoubtedly going shoes beyondstraight - to - VOD release , as his personal magnetism and purpose will pave the way for superstardom . Hopefully , his film choice will improve . One Waywon’t carve a seat into the crime thriller pantheon , but its most notable achievement should be set the stage for Andrew Baird and Colson Baker ’s inevitable hike in the film industry .
One Wayopened in theaters , digital , and on - demand on Friday , September 2 . The film is 96 minute long and denounce R for permeant language , violence , and drug use .
Storm Reid in One Way
Colson Baker and Travis Fimmel in One Way
