There’s more smoke than fire in “Burn,” a reasonably promising single-location thriller that never quite settles on what it wants to be — a straight-up suspense piece, twisty black comedy, oddball …
), who waits until no one else is present, then pulls a gun on the two employees. He’s in trouble and needs to get out of town, fast, with whatever’s in the till as travel money. But that getaway is complicated by Sheila’s bad attitude, as well as Melinda’s less explicable plea, “Can I go with you?” — a strange request that soon becomes a creepy demand.
The primary focus is on Melinda’s wobbly coping skills under pressure. But neither the film nor Cobham-Hervey quite know what to do with the character: Is she simply a pathetic wallflower grasping at any hope of rescue or approval? A grudge-keeping avenger in sheep’s clothing a la Carrie White? Her alternate currents of haplessness and glint-eyed resourcefulness never resolve into a coherent identity, or even a useful ambivalence.
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