We watched “Unhinged” tonight – Kevin, Sandy and I. It’s a new release starring Russell Crowe. All three of us enjoyed it a lot. I thought it was pretty well done. It’s about an unstable guy (Crowe) who has some serious issues, including currently being wanted by the authorities after he kills his wife (or ex-wife) and torches her house and is on the run. He has a little incident in traffic while driving when he stops at a red light and fails to go when it turns green. A lady behind him lays on her horn a couple times to wake him up so he’ll move. After a few tense moments, she finally gets frustrated enough to just drive around him.

Well, this pisses the guy off, because (as he explains to her and her son when he catches up to their vehicle in traffic again) she should have simply given him a “courtesy tap” — a short honk-honk — instead of laying on her horn like she did. He asks for an apology from her, and says if she apologizes it will clear the slate and they can be done with it. Well, she hadn’t been having such a great morning herself, and doesn’t feel she has anything to apologize for, so she refuses. Oops.

From there, things continue to get worse, go horribly wrong, escalate more and more, and people start getting killed. I won’t spoil the rest of it, and won’t even mention how it ended, just that all three of us were riveted to the movie from beginning to end. We thought it was very well-done.