Shoot-outs, lovers on the lam, a villain with dreadlocks: ♈yes, this hit-and miss comedy sure does want to be .

Where the late Tony Scott’s movi🌞e was the real deal, alas, this is the ersatz facsimile that starts well but – like bad guy Bradley Cooper’s behind-bars encounter with an ab🥂usive Filipino – ends up a pain in the nethers.

Dax Shepard stars as a getaway driver who leaves Witness Protection to escort girlfriend Kristen Bell to a job interview🉐, a decision that incurs his ex-associates’ wrath.

Theirs, thoug𒆙h, will be nothing compared to audiences hoping for anything more than a derivative knock-off.