Entertainment

Spare yourself this tire-d tale

Someone has locked Stephen Dorff in a car trunk, and he must act his way out, doing his best Bruce Willis by way of Kiefer Sutherland. In this slight thriller, Dorff is a Secret Service agent who’s been abducted for reasons that become increasingly clear via the CB radio and cellphone that conveniently find their way into his coffin-sized plexiglass prison, along with a swarm of bees, an errant bullet and an alarming amount of liquid.

Dorff does what he can with the setup, fairly convincingly playing a guy’s guy who won’t give up the classified info no matter how hard he’s pushed. But the whole claustrophobic one-man show feels like we’ve been here before, and with better material (James Franco in “127 Hours,” Ryan Reynolds in “Buried”).

Director Gabe Torres lobs a twist you’ll likely see coming, and another you may not — neither satisfying enough to justify an hour and a half of Dorff-in-a-box.