A week before the turn of the century, Austin Morris (Nicholas Stoesser) tells his best friend Swearsky (Jared Spears), whilst inhaling some smoke from a joint, of what they can do to rob that ATM. He’s figured out the secret to accessing the Quality Mart ATM machine at his work. Austin is hopelessly in love with intelligent Mary Jane (Jordyn Denning). She has gotten complete funding to NYU. Austin wants to take the cash and run away with her to New York City. Swearsky can open an ice cream parlor somewhere on the beach. This is their chance to escape nowhere Michigan.
On New Year’s Eve, Austin and Swearsky get cracking. All of their town’s young people are going to a “fallout party” for Y2K. At some point, Swearsky must keep Jimmy (Landon Tavernier), Mary Jane’s mentally unstable drug dealing sibling outside this convenience store or else things will go awry with him involved in this heist plot. He doesn’t know that his sister is dating Austin either way. The covert squirrel-the-money-into-the-Turbo-Cola-prize-display plan keeps getting interrupted by Austin’s attempts at making it happen. When Jimmy starts showing up along with Mary Jane and also numerous other unexpected customers things get worse.
Turbo Cola has been described as a heist version of Clerks already too many times. Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob characters are much simpler than these ones we see in Turbo Cola movie though they may appear quite alike on a first sight level . We know their backgrounds only through snippets of dialogue between them here & there . The ensemble is about ready to split apart too far among themselves each one having reached its respective breaking point . How well they do or don’t do determines whether success divides them.
Mary Jane has worked hard enough in school for it all to end. Austin would follow Mary Jane out of his miserable home life in a heartbeat. Jimmy is green with envy and filled with bitterness. The realization that they are going to abandon him, enrages. The gentle Swearsky appears to be just along for the ride but has ulterior motives. He’s sick and tired of smoking weed and loafing around all the time. Nobody tells what their intentions really are until a dangerous incident forces them to face up.
Turbo Cola takes place entirely at the Quality Mart – a place that is suffocating to its characters. Thus speaks Austin’s hatred for his job, which stands as his personal purgatory signifying nothing else but his jailer status. Stealing your pathway to freedom with a pretty girl is like living in dreams come true state of being. The Year 2000 hysteria plays an important role here too among other things . Since Jimmy is fatalistic by nature, he fits well into this apocalyptic gloom and doom story line . Every day when behind the counter at work,Austin enjoys seeing Jimmy who doesn’t want anything better from life . From one point of view ,the store becomes a prison, while from another – it remains a sanctuary for homeless people like our heroes .
Turbo Cola’s strong character dynamics ameliorate significant pacing problems. My interest waned as the second act dragged, filled with nullity. Fortunately, the story begins to run on an easier gear. It slips into slightly excessive territory though it does end cleverly. The characters understand that change is hard. Moving forward is not just about breaking a malfunctioning ATM and grabbing some money.
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