Unhinged

Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth and director Derrick Borte leave you gasping in a brutal thriller with a cynical view of the rage festering in all of us.

No one shows anger boiling in the stomach quite like Crowe, who finds a way to kick-start this material - vicious trash, at a glance - by touring us around a mindset that's impressively credible in the circumstances.

It's hard to imagine anyone desperate to an "Unhinged" degree.

It's a wait-for-Redbox programmer, promoted by default into the (only) multiplex event of the summer.

Despite its bullet-point nods to toxic masculinity and some glib armchair sociology about the rage-fueled society we have become, "Unhinged" doesn't have much on its mind.

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Road rage gets a new and definitive definition.

Stay for Crowe, who gives a performance in Unhinged that’s like a deranged rhino, or leave for the anemic plot that stands for nothing.

Unhinged's story may seem simple and straightforward, but this raucous road rage thriller still terrifies thanks to Russell Crowe's chilling commitment in the lead role.


“Unhinged” is a simple yet satisfying thriller that by the end turns into full-on maniacal horror.