There are so many freaky stuffs here as though they jammed an entire game of Grand Theft Auto or even a compilation of surveillance cameras from an asylum called Hollywood. It's nothing short of glorious. Stretch is unapologetically full of sharp sarcasm, witty quips and a lot of profanities. Once it gets any momentum, Stretch leaves a trail of involuntary gasp reactions, otherwise known as "WTF" remarks, with its broken down mutilated-by-fate limousine.

Story follows the titular Stretch (Patrick Wilson),a limo driver with a serious identity crisis and a bit of mental disorder. He's about to embark on an overnight journey worth of Hangover, Collateral and Transporter combined. It's amazing how the usual haunted man from Insidious and The Conjuring delivers so many chuckles, although he is still technically haunted in here.

The cast are nice, each character has very different wacky personality, borderline over-the-top. Still, these characters that seem like they escape video game realm are ridiculously fascinating. Some of them don drug dealer or angry cop personas, while others portray themselves as the elites of Hollywood. Most importantly, they appear to be enjoying themselves in this strange escapade.

Script is thoroughly and amazingly witty. They exchange banter with insult jab and hefty amount of laughable internal as well as external screams. It's the stuffs you hear behind the closed door of therapy session or rich men orgy. Wilson delivers his inner thought monologues with the despair of broken man and he is sullenly convincing.

The pace is fast, but it does need some time to rev the engine. Its crude nature might not be for everyone either, it has little to none restraint, so as they say, viewer discretion is advised. However, these are minor issues and can easily be overlooked since the film is just incredibly fun. Stretch delivers more than enough laughs, partially bitter laughs, in expense of himself and everyone in the film.

Stretch is a dumb dark comedy that wants to emulate Scorcese's After Hours or John Landis's Into the Night. Just like Landis, director Joe Carnahan packs his movie with a few cameos like Ray Liotta and David Hasselhoff.

Stretch (Patrick Wilson) is a wannabe actor in LA but reduced to driving a limo and heading to be burnt out. Life was good when he had a stunning girlfriend but she left him for some highly paid quarterback. Going back to gambling he has accumulated debts to his bookie which needs to be paid up once the debt is sold to some Mexican gangsters, he is losing high value clients to a rival and he picks up a crazed, drugged out passenger (Chris Pine) who is wanted by the police as he possesses ledgers that implicates some dangerous criminals.

The film zips along, people speak smart and funny, but it is not really smart or funny. When Pine said he was a fire starter he literally starts a fire in the next scene. The plot is rather stretched. Famous actors pop up here and there even for small roles and Stretch gets chided by a ghostly Ed Helms.

It is all a little sub Tarantino and the genre of a man having one crazy night is not entirely successful. I can understand why Universal got cold feet and released this on VOD.

Though I guess if you cast Miss Alba as the "Ugly Duckling"/Secretary, you obviously have some pull in the hiring of actors department. There are some nice additions to that (Ray Liotta as "himself") and some others (Chris Pine going completely over the top, though he's playing someone different than himself).

The action is really good and the dialog is finely tuned. Obviously there are a lot of coincidences happening and a lot of stuff all at once. There are "twists" that you can see coming from the start, but it's still a fun ride, if you forgive the pun. Maybe Joe is channeling something from his own Hollywood experience or something from someone close to him. One thing is for sure: You can feel for the main character and what he's going through ... so much that you want him to succeed even in the strangest odds and with the weirdest decisions (he's making) .... will he prevail?