Transit
Transit
R | 11 May 2012 (USA)

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Nate takes his family for a camping trip to reconnect. When they pull off at a rest stop, a gang of thieves hides their stash from an armored car robbery among the family belongings. They soon find themselves on the run and the gang will stop at nothing to get their money back.

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
Staci Frederick Blistering performances.
danndavies Good premise, decent acting. Maybe if you're smoking dope (a lot of dope) this movie would make some sense. At least the film was consistent - every one of the characters' choices made no sense whatever. It's like one of those horror films where all the victims set themselves up to be murdered. I wouldn't recommend this film to a dog. My dog watched for 15 minutes and fell asleep. From the attempt to run the family off the road, to the husband taking off into the swamp for NO apparent reason. Lots of nonsensical automatic weapons. The plant of an idea with the wedding band, gave me a slight hope of foreshadowing but alas, the husband acted more like it was a paper cut. I don't blame the actors, but the direction and the writing. Somebody should have been looking over their shoulders saying "no, no that does not make sense". Oh yes, was the van overheating or not?
lojitsu Here's The Lowedown on "Transit" (A Thriller DVD review)...LIKED IT!!Become a fan of The Lowedown on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Lowedown/386583633764Genre: 8 Movie: 6 What's it about? The camping trip was meant to reunite the Sidwell family. When they are hunted and terrorized by violent bank robbers, their very survival will depend on working together. What did I think? I threw this in my player not expecting much. Then my alarm went off and I woke up to an intense thriller with all the fat trimmed off. Sometimes you want a simple, straightforward approach to a film with no complications or unnecessary twists. When you're in that mood...put this one in your player.
golem09 Acting is OK, cinematography OK, the sound is good. But this is one of those story that relies for 100% of the time on the pure stupidity of it's characters to drive it's story. If any of them had an IQ of over 60, the conflict would have been solved in 15 minutes. Instead it drags on and on, making less and less sense until you don't even care, because anything that happens can be undone in a heartbeat by some new stupidity. Desperate to show how cool/loyal to their family these characters are, the movie consists mainly of badly constructed, artificial situations that would only happen in magic movie land. I can usually ignore a fair share of this, but here it's completely overdone.Wouldn't recommend this, even if this is your only alternative to utter boredom.
zardoz-13 "Seconds Apart" director Antonio Negret generates some genuine adrenaline-charged thrills, chills, and spills in his second feature length release. The Louisiana-based crime thriller "Transit" qualifies as an exciting road picture about four murderous thieves who tangle with an innocent family in rural Louisiana over a fortune in stolen loot. The chief shortcomings of this above-average but formulaic melodrama is its idiotic villains and the lackluster ending that deprives the protagonist of any reward for his heroic deeds. The villains aren't the brightest bulbs in the box, but they manage to be menacing. Fortunately, the cast is convincing, particularly Jim Caviezel as the devastated dad who only wants his family together again and James Frain as the desperate villain. The parish authorities are clueless about what is happening between the heroes and the villains. Ironically, the lawmen only complicate matters and imperil our hero and his family. Frain looks exceptionally degenerate as the sleazy gang leader, while Harold Perrineau registers intensely as a trigger-happy henchman."According to Greta" scenarist Michael Gilvary has cross-stitched the plots from the Dana Andrews' opus "Hot Rods to Hell"(1967) and the white-knuckled Audrey Hepburn epic "Wait Until Dark" (1967). In 'Hot Rods to Hell," rebellious teens terrorized a family on a deserted stretch of highway. In "Wait Until Dark," a deadly drug dealer stashed his narcotics in the blind heroine's luggage for a transoceanic flight. After she landed, the villains invaded her New York apartment to retrieve them. In "Transit," a quartet of reckless armored car robbers need to get past a police roadblock. They replace the camping gear strapped down to the top of the Sidwell family SUV with their ill-gotten gains. Initially, our heroes have no clue about the dastards after them. Marek (James Frain of "Titus"), Arielle (Diora Baird of "Wedding Crashers"), Losada (Harold Perrineaus of "The Matrix Revolutions"), and Evers (Ryan Donowho of "Broken Flowers") have fooled themselves into believing that they can retrieve their loot from the unsuspecting family before they realize that they've been used as a mule.Naturally, nothing goes right for either side, and those moments are the most dramatic. The conflict arises from this predicament but there is more at stake than the loot that the felons have stolen. Our hero Nate (Jim Caviezel of "Outlander") has just been paroled from prison. He served time for real estate fraud. Now, Nate is struggling to get his wife Robyn (Elisabeth Röhm of "Abduction") and sons together for a vacation when they run afoul of the bad guys. Robyn isn't entirely happy with Nate and she isn't sure that he has changed his way. Indeed, some of the action will take you by surprise. Neither Negret nor Gilvary make it a picnic for either the heroes or their adversaries. No sooner do the villains have the loot than they lose it. Not long after the hero appropriates the millions, he loses it in the swamp. Never hide a bag of loot in the hollow of a tree. The black 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle that the villains careen around in assumes a character of its own, and the long shots of Chevelle hauling down the highway look as cool as the spinning tire shots. Negret handles the chase sequences with aplomb. The car crash involving the Sheriff Deputy's Crown Victoria is awesome. "Transit" never wears out its welcome.