I had started watching a no-name horror movie, but that was proving difficult to focus on. I picked this one, not for the description, but because it came out in 1998. I knew I could expect a certain level of production value, and a certain kind of pacing.
It worked. It's not a bad movie. It moves along pretty well, and for a movie with such a simple premise, I'm really impressed that they were able to keep developing the story. I didn't have any clear expectation of how the story would end, either.
What sells the movie is the businessman's behavior and attitude, and how nicely it builds. We start off with a certain amount of sympathy for him - his project has an injunction against it, and the delay is costing him a lot of money. The longer we see him, the more unstable he gets. His relationship with the car thief seems to have hit him at just the right point. From the audience point of view, the story is a little difficult. Neither of the two leads are very identifiable characters. We probably are supposed to identify with the wife, but she is out of the picture for most of the movie.
I remember another "trapped in a car" movie - Stuck - in which a man is stuck in the windshield, and remains there in her garage for a long period of time. Of course, that one is based on a true story.
For a straight-to-video feature, it's pretty good.
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