Delivery Run

Fast food delivery, the perfect way to relax at home if you want to watch a movie, just watch some Netflix show or perhaps just read a good book while eating. I have ordered a lot of fast food delivery in my days, and especially on a weekend if im really tired from work. Usually i like to order from Subway, simply because i love a lot of their brilliant sandwiches.. If you want to make them more healthy, you just get more vegetables and less sauce. Unless i want a real pizza night and just order one, just to enjoy while having Netflix playing iin the background. If i want a good laugh i just watch a classic comedy with legendary comedian John Candy, or Chevy Chase. You can never go wrong with either films of Fletch or the sequel Fletch Lives ( i own both of them on blu ray ). When it comes to movies that bring up the subject of fast food, or restaurant food in general we have a lot of titles to choose between. I have especially a personal favourite, and it´s not about specifically about delivery food. It is a British independent horror film called K-Shop from director Dan Pringle. This film takes place inside a British town, where young people love to party and enjoy fast food on their night out. On a local kebab restaurant where employee Salah ( Ziad Abaza ) deal with drunk customers, his own father ( who owns this restaurant ) gets pushed on to the ground by thugs. His father is seriously injured and ends up dying, Salah have no other option but to take over his father´s restaurant. Each night he deal with drunk customers, he accidently murder one of the customers. To get rid of the body, he chops it up and make kebab meals of the human flesh. Who is going to know? K-Shop is a very brutal, gory horror film that looks good, have good acting and use effective practical make up effects. Definetely worth picking up on physical media. Speaking of fast food, a thriller film called Delivery Run looked interesting last year when i watched the trailer. I was able to get a physical copy of this film to review it. Is this a thriller you should watch, or should Deliver Run be thrown in a trash can together next to bad food?

Delivery driver Lee ( Alexander Arnold ) is in a very difficult spot in his life. He owns money to different people, he is struggling to keep his bills paid. He does still have his job delivering food, but that´s not going to get him the money he needs. While driving out food he encounter a big snow plow truck that almost ram him off the road. Lee have no idea who this maniac is, and as he continue to deliver food, driving around the winter landscape, he is about to meet this maniac again.

Did you by any chance see the 2020 psychological thriller Unhinged with Russel Crowe as a psychopath? Imagine that film but made into a fast food delivery winter version, add the Jeepers Creepers truck as well ( at least i was reminded of this specific truck ) and you pretty much have the description of the film Delivery Run. This is a very simple plot and very easy to get into, it almost feels like that kind of film we would get back on VHS in the 80´s or the 90´s at the rental store. No complicated characters, just made for a certain type of audience who loves similar films such as Unhinged. One difference though is that the film Delivery Run have some comedy influences thrown into this thriller, which doesn´t always work to be honest. I do appreciate the effort though, because in the 90´s we actually had quite a lot of thriller comedy releases ( with a mixed result, and i highly recommend the 1997 thriller comedy Suicide Kings with legendary actor Christopher Walker ). It takes a while before the thriller aspects kicks in, even though this is a short film landing on 77 minutes only. What makes this film work outside of the thriller sequences, is the lead character Lee ( played by actor Alexander Arnold, who i recognized from the 2018 war action drama film The Outpost ). Lee is that kind of nerdy character with no luck, always getting himself in trouble while he does have a good heart. I think the character of Lee match well with the plot of this film, considering he is a perfect example of a man who have a hard time finding his place in life. The performance from from Alexander Arnold is alright, Actress Nadine Higgin as money collector Rebecca is a highlight in this film. Ok, so we have to mention what doesn´t work that well. The attempt of humour in this film doesn´t match well with the thriller aspect. I see what they were trying to do, not a bad idea, but to be able to make this combination work you have to have some funny dialouge at least. As a thriller though this film still manage to deliver some good times, and director Joey Palmroos was clearly inspired by the 80´s and 90´s film making this film. If you just want something simple to watch, Delivery Run will most likely be a good watch on VOD.

Rating: DDD