Night Fare (2015) Reviews

• Enjoy the ride – it's one of the best.

  Fella_shibby2016-07-10

  It's directed by Julien Seri. I have seen the directors debut film Yamakasi in 2006. Never kept a track on the directors future projects. It was about parkour n very entertaining. I saw Night fare recently without watching the trailer or reading much about it. I was pleasantly surprised how good the movie was n was shocked too knowin that it is the same director of Yamakasi. Looking forward for his future projects, specially a film which has Orlando bloom in it called Smart Chase. Coming back to Night fare, well it's a solid thriller with good pace n decent acting. The camera work was good n the cinematography was done very well . The music was done well too especially whenever the 'Maniac' approaches. It had a sense of dread n tension to it. This movie reminded me of ol skool 80s slasher, where a maniac keeps on chasing its victims. Remember Maniac cop? The kills were fast n brutal. The killer was scary n solidly built. It had a feel of Duel, Joy ride -1, Jeepers creepers. The length of the movie was short. Ther is only one small complain. When the guy with the sword comes down to confront the Maniac, he's suddenly taken down on the ground. I mean that scene looked too fake man. There is enuff kills to satisfy horror fans. Even the offscreen violent scene ( The man with the dog scene) was terrifying enuff. Some people might complain about the ending being lame or maybe some may not understand because it's in French. Slick thriller pulsing with a fantastic score. Night Fare is a tense and, at times, brutal chase flick that keeps the adrenaline pumping throughout. Don't miss the ride.

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• A great first half ruined by a wonky ending

  jennypenny19692015-09-16

  The premise to this film is undeniably great. Who wouldn't be scared by a maniac cab driver chasing after you for not paying your night fare... whilst keeping the meter running! Sadly the film didn't work for me, where humour and intensity could have prevailed, a great opening and first half of the movie was ruined by a second half and ending that literally felt tacked on. And the director proudly revealed in the Q&A at FrightFest that they in fact changed the film as they were shooting, and made up a new ending on the go. The thing is you can tell that's what they did and it doesn't feel very clever, it just feels random. Not to mention the cardboard cut-out women characters that are only present to look pretty and get kidnapped. Come on, it's 2015! It didn't work for me, though there is a little to enjoy in the opening. I give the film a 5/10 for effort. But I don't think I'd be interested in watching this again.

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• Don't Read Much Into It, Just Enjoy It

  clintstevens2018-03-12

  I went into this flick thinking it was gonna be a 'Terminator Meets Christine' movie. I was wrong. I was first bothered by the fact that the whole freakin' city was deserted while a psycho taxi driver chased 2 bad boys intent on wreaking vengeance, but it was so much more than that. After coming to the realization that this was a graphic novel come to life (and the last 30 minutes proved me right), I just sat back and enjoyed it. If you enjoy thrillers with some violence thrown in for effect, you'll like 'Night Fare'.

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• Definitely worth watching

  calicut1102018-03-13

  I promise anyone that likes a good thriller will like this movie. There is a great surprise ending as well. I don't want to give anything away but there should be more movies like this.

• A Slasher and So Much More

  hepodcast2015-11-19

  If Batman mated with the truck from Stephen Spielberg's Duel (don't tell me that isn't physically possible, the man can beat Superman, he could figure it out) nine months later one of them would give birth to something that looked like Night Fare. At first blush, Night Fare is a movie about an evil car, a vengeful taxi hungry for its fare. But as the story unfolds it reveals new and surprising layers of complexity. Two friends meet in Paris two years after a mysterious event forced one of them to go on the run from the law. They celebrate their reunion with a night of partying and revelry, and when the party's over they take a taxi home. But at the last minute they stiff the taxi driver and make a run for it. It's a simple prank, a fleeting moment of drunken foolishness, but the taxi and its mysterious driver proceed to hound them through the streets of Paris, running them down side roads and back alleys, seemingly out for revenge over the lost toll. But slowly it becomes clear things are not so simple. The taxi and its driver aren't just out for payback, and the toll the two men owe is far higher than the fare for the cab ride. Night Fare is not a subtle movie. Our first glimpse of the taxi draped under a blood red silk cloth is accompanied by a driving synthetic soundtrack, and when the mysterious driver pulls away he reveals a man lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood. "Be afraid of this car" the movie tells us. And so when we see that same car roll up to pick up our protagonists we already know they're in for trouble. night-fare-1-e1444236412846From that moment the tension never really lets up. The taxi and its driver come after the two men with an unstoppable, almost supernatural, force. As the night goes on and every safe haven the men turn to is eliminated, they're forced to face a moment they thought they had left behind for ever. Night Fare is a cool movie, and the driver is a great antagonist. He's nearly always shrouded in shadow, a hulking silhouette that seems more like an avenging angel than a flesh and blood man. He may be a bad guy, but all of the people he targets (including our protagonists) are worse. So when he rips through a room full of gangsters with a katana, we start to side with him. And in time the movie rewards us for that instinct. There's a moment at the end of Night Fare seemed certain to ruin the movie. It is a scene of pure exposition, telling us exactly what the taxi driver is about, where he came from, what his motives are. And it's told with a cartoon. It shouldn't work. It breaks all the rules. When you have a cool unstoppable vigilante with an evil car, giving every single detail of his back story in an info-dump right at the end of the movie ought to be the worst possible thing you could do. But somehow it works. It works because it leads into something else, something that ties everything together in a way that couldn't have been possible without it. Night Fare starts out like a slasher flick with a car in the role of the slasher, but it slowly turns into something else: A story of redemption. Read more over at www.humanechoes.com

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