The Refuge

This movie is terrible. Listed today as 7.9/10 with 1,303 votes, this rating is only possible with paid-for ratings. It's not worth explaining how bad it is. Just don't see it.

Simply don't, it's cheesy and boring. The whole film is just the main character (who happens to be the culprit of this disaster of a movie) talking in his phone driving his car.

I was another sucker believing the rating of over 8. The first 13 minutes is a guy driving his car around while the opening credits are being displayed. Then guess what the rest of the movie is predominately the guy driving his car around. I kept skipping forward and still hit him driving again, it is a 0 star movie.

This is absolutely not a 7.5 rated film. It's one of those "written by, directed by, produced by, edited by, casting by, starring.... you guessed it, the same person". Terrible writing, acting. Must be a lot of reviews from the "star's" friends as its a solid 3 star film and worth skipping.

It's a decent story and some of the images are gorgeous. But but but .... why oh why why is most of the movie spent on driving for endless stretches of time? How did this boring film score 8.2?

Truth is my first, and of all the driver,chauffour and wheelhandler movies ive seen this must be some of the most paralysing and lame events ever. you are for 60 minutes sitting in the backseat of a car listening to a growling engine, making turns and turns over and over. and nothing really happens. the rest is just humbug. ive been scammed thinks the grumpy old man, except for the score that save a bit of the glory of making a feature length film, and its sad to say that is the only interesting part of this flick, and it is a 2 at max.... stay away from this if you consider it,

I, like others, took the (initial) 8.7 rating as being indicative of a quality piece of cinema. In fact, my expectations were such that I, sad to say, watched this entirely from beginning to end. As the movie progressed, through endless and pointless driving scenes and occasionally broken up by new characters woodenly reciting lines that were not only cliched but didn't really help to build up any story, I grew increasingly disbelieving. Surely there would some pivotal moment that would occur to kick things into a higher gear? There was not. Surely there would be a revelation that would give all the proceeding driving / corner turning / gear shifting / checking of traffic / poker-faced acting some context and meaning. There was not. Once I realised that nothing was going to happen I was so close to the end of the movie I thought I might as well keep going. No surprise that the ending is just as terrible as the rest of the movie. Redeeming points - the visuals of LA at night (which is the only state you get to see anything in the movie - it's ALL filmed at night time) are nice. The sound track was pretty good, I thought, and perhaps the sole reason I managed to keep going. Normally I would not leave such a scathing and nasty review, however it's clear from the ratings that 'someone' manipulated things to get it to 8.7 in the first place. As this number is about 7.7 higher than what the actual rating should be, this is a real no-no. Avoid, avoid, avoid, but do keep an eye out for the sound track.