Unhinged review – Russell Crowe powers up for gonzo road-rage violence

Caren Pistorius co-stars as a driver who impatiently and fatefully parps her horn at a guy in a pickup in this bone-crunchingly nasty thriller

Russell Crowe finds his beefiest, growliest, jowliest form in this gonzo road-rage thriller, with some nasty and extraneous stabs of violence. The title is one of many unsubtle things about it.

Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is a stressed single mother driving her teen son Kyle (Gabriel Bateman) to school; she finds herself stuck at an intersection behind a guy in a pickup who doesn’t move when the lights turn green. She gives a loud, protracted, angry honk, overtakes his infuriatingly stationary vehicle, but then he pulls up beside her at the next stop – and it’s Crowe, looking as he probably looked when the BBC producer cut his poem reading from the Bafta broadcast in 2002.

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