i will just come right to the point. wheelman used this gimmicky story-telling thing where it always left the camera in the car, and it bothered me because there was no apparent point to doing so. unless it was to distract from the overall weakness of the film, but that would imply that this overall weakness was somehow foreseen. it is not like you would go back and reshoot the whole movie in goofy perspective after you realize your first attempt was crap. or would you?
i dunno. i watch movies, i do not make them. it just seems like a lot to me. why not hire new actors, or make a different movie? it is not like there was anything amazing going on here that absolutely demanded to be preserved. like for example, if samurai princess had left out the love rhombus, they would not have been all, "crap, nothing to salvage here." instead they would have obviously preserved the director's artistic vision and reshot whatever needed reshooting because samurai princess was a film whose time had come, a work of art that demanded to be released.
well, wheelman was no samurai princess. it gets two red trunks. by the way, if your authentication protocol involves just believing anything somebody tells you over the phone, then you have at least one problem which demands immediate attention.
also, in case you are wondering, i intentionally left out all the jokes about how an alternate explanation for the camera placement is that the director could see into the future and already knew about the film's weakness, and just shot it that way the first time. it just seemed too obvious.
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