MVD Entertainment Group announced this past week that director Steve Wang’s 1997 sci-fi, pedal-to-the-metal thriller, Drive: Special Collector’s Edition, will be joining the company’s popular “Rewind Collection” promotional label on May 11 as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings.
Why do we like director Steve Wang’s 1997 film, Drive, and think that MVD nailed it by making this a “Rewind Collection” entry?
It is so goofy that it works. It is also, ironically, forward-looking … Drive is a mixed-genre thriller that rolls along at break-neck speed … and is blessed with “buddy” dialog that keeps it entertaining, even when your eyes are rolling and you are wondering what is coming next.
Toby Wong (Mark Dacascos — John Wick: Chapter 3, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Maximum Impact, etc.) has somehow escaped from China, where they were tinkering with him as a human-android prototype (which is kind of prophetic since that might actually be what the Chinese are working on these days). He’s got some gizmo implanted in his chest that makes him the perfect fighting weapon.
Of course, this plot element is the perfect set-up for a series of non-stop martial arts encounters. The gizmo also has a beeper installed that lets the bad guys know exactly where he … which means that (like The Matrix) there is never-ending stream of them ready to do battle.
To provide some comic relief, filmmaker Steve Wang (The Guyver, Sirens of the Deep), has Toby pick up a drifter named Malik (Kadeem Hardison — as Dwayne in the A Different World sitcom, plus such films as Vampire in Brooklyn, White Men Can’t Jump, The Dark Party) to drive him around Los Angeles in an attempt to find the whiz-bang company that can get the gizmo out of his chest and keep ahead of the bad guys.
Bonus features include commentary with director Steve Wang, co-stars Mark Dacascos and Kadeem Hardison, plus stunt choreographer Koichi Sakamoto, a half-dozen deleted scenes, both the extended director’s cut and the original direct-to-video presentation, the feature-length documentary titled Drive: The Force Behind the Storm and a series of video sessions featuring the cast and crew.
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