Oversteer is not the right name for this local indie feature; it should be titled Overhaul. To put it in a nutshell, the story is fragmented and the visuals are unattractive. It’s labelled as “Singapore’s first car-racing movie” but part of it was shot in Malaysia and needs to be stripped down, junked and built up again from scratch. What writer-director Lui has done here is take a story about a young man (Tan) who rebels against his strict father (Zhang) to follow his passion for cars, wrap it up in family drama clichés and tell them badly.
The romance bit doesn’t work either including one scene where a character kisses another without consent but then Lui throws in a random musical number which seems like it belongs in a different movie altogether. You can see where the budget cuts were made: the racing sequences are shoddily put together, with bad sound design and not an ounce of real tension. How did Oversteer even make it this far? The whole thing feels like an 86-minute-long TV serial condensed into two hours, or maybe I had the longest short sleep of my life. Or did it dream me?
The director of Kingsman dusts off his spy-vs-spy toys for an entertaining if uneven (and PG13-rated) romp about an author (Howard) whose fiction books have real-world implications on spycraft; so basically Romancing the Stone meets The Long Kiss Goodnight, backed by Apple TV+ (oops). This action, comedy does sometimes feel like one of those generic star-studded titles streamers throw out every few months (hi!), but other times there’s enough crazy juice to keep everything spinning topspin even when we’re getting twisty past twisted. There’s definitely an ice-skating set-piece that’s bonkers AF, before the third act lets the side down a little.
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