Gripping and clever, although not entirely, “One Way” tells the story of a fugitive on the run, or I should say, on a bus, trying to get away from a gang from which he has stolen cash and cocaine.
When this crime drama starts, Freddy (Colson Baker aka Machine Gun Kelly) and his two partners have already stolen the goods from Freddy’s lover and gang leader Vic (Drea De Matteo, “The Sopranos”). One of Freddy’s cohorts is already captured and is about to be killed. Another, a guy named JJ (Luis Da Silva Jr.), is in a car on the road following the bus and terrified. Freddy has a gun, the cash and coke. But he has been shot in the stomach, and he’s bleeding out.
Also on the bus is the no-nonsense driver (the talented Thomas Francis Murphy); an underage girl named Rachel (Storm Reid, TV’s “Euphoria”) texting with a man she’s supposed to meet named Smokie; a pregnant woman on her own; and a social worker named Will (Travis Fimmel). Also in the mix are Freddy’s estranged, criminal father Fred Sr. (Kevin Bacon), Freddy’s estranged ex-wife Christine (Meagan Holder), who is a nurse, and Freddy and Christine’s daughter Lily (Casie Baker, who is MGK’s real-life daughter).
