Get A Load Of BMW's Bombastic 'The Escape' Short Film
After a few teaser trailers, BMW has released ‘The Escape’, its action-packed follow-up to ‘The Hire’ - a series of short films released in 2001 and 2002.
The first thing that struck me? Just how much money has been ploughed into this one short. As well as all the pricey big names - it stars Clive Owen, John Bernthal and Dakota Fanning, and is directed by Neil Blomkamp - it’s full of the kind of action that’d get Michael Bay hot under the collar.
We’re talking helicopter explosions, crashing big rigs, Humvees smashing through various objects - all set to a vague plot that has something to do with clones. Well, this is a Blomkamp film.
Suffice to say, the results are pretty spectacular, and it’s all in aid of plugging BMW’s new ‘G30’ 5-series. This is the kind of advertising we can get behind.
Now, we just have to wait and see if this is a one off, or the first of many…
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Basically, if you took any of The Transporter films and edited out all the superfluous nonsense, got a good director and added a decent actor… then this is what you would end up with.
Pretty much!
Never uses indicator.
Pretty much BMW drivers in a nutshell.
Tired joke is tired.
He doesn’t use his indicators once in the whole film.
Is he too old to be the next James Bond?
He should be
Absolutely awesome how they made the car the protagonist
Next,
They destroy indicator memes.
BMW should start making Movies
M5 yet it says M4 on the guage cluster, also DCT yet 3 pedals. WTF BMW?
Still a good film though
Are you joking or are you just plain dumb?
That was bugging me too. It wasn’t even an M5, it was a 540i. Great film BMW, but if you want to promote your cars, please make them real cars, not whatever you think will make it more dramatic
It means manual mode 4th gear and there were only 2 pedals in the whole film
(sees Humvee) America intensifies
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