Ben Kingsley crashes into Mad Max’s Nicholas Hoult in the Collide trailer
53 seconds of movie trailer time might as well be a half-hour when considering the online audience’s attention span, but that’s how long it take for this preview to shift into gear. Then what seems like a snoozy romantic drama about a reformed criminal (Mad Max: Fury Road’s Nicholas Hoult) whose girlfriend (Star Wars: Rogue One’s Felicity Jones) needs a kidney transplant suddenly takes a compelling turn when a gun-wielding, bare-chested Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast) appears on screen and starts barking out dialogue in an accent of unknown origin. Things go wrong, as they always do, and a bound Hoult finds himself face-to-face with an angry mob boss played by Anthony Hopkins, another elder statesman of British drama who knows a thing or two about commanding a scene. What results is, according to the official synopsis, “an adrenaline-fueled car chase on the German highways,” which makes the saccharine first third of the trailer all the more confounding.