THE LOST BUS – Review by Susan Granger
Based on journalist Lizzie Johnson’s book Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire, co-writers Paul Greengrass & Brad Inglesby interweave a real school bus driver’s dilemma into a suspense-filled thriller about kids trapped in a wildfire. Greengrass knows exactly how to ramp up tension with handheld cameras and rapid cutting, then defuse it – if only momentarily – before ramping it up again – while the driver copes with backed-up traffic as panicked evacuees overflow the only available roads, along with engine trouble, swirling ash and the deadly, rapidly spreading blaze.
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