Rushlights is a stock standard story about identity fraud in unbelievable circumstances.
Billy (Josh Henderson, Dallas, Step Up) and Sarah (Haley Webb, Teen Wolf, Final Destination) are young lovers with dark pasts. When Sarah’s roommate overdoses on heroin in their apartment, they later find a letter stating that she has received a valuable inheritance from a wealthy uncle.
Coincidentally, Sarah looks similar to her roommate and the two decide to try and pull off identity fraud to gain the inheritance. When they arrive in the small Texas town, Tremo, a spate of robberies makes the local Sherriff (Beau Bridges, Brothers & Sisters, The Descendants)) suspicious of the new arrivals.
Written by Antoni Stutz and Ashley Scott Meyers, they’ve attempted to write a clever thriller but instead overburden the story with too many twists, making it difficult to follow and worse, clichéd. It’s let down significantly by too many coincidences.
Henderson is underwhelming in his performance as a lead and doesn’t add any depth to the cool bad boy archetype. Aidan Quinn (Elementary, Weeds) as the estate lawyer is natural in his performance and the most enjoyable to watch, while Crispian Belfrage (Common Practice, Bent) goes overboard as the stalking sleazy drug dealer.
Reviewed by Adriana Allman
Rating out of 10: 3
Rushlights will be released on DVD on 9 December 2015.
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