How does this movie plot idea my son came up sound to you.

WOULD YOU WATCH IT

Redline

Jack Mercer is a former elite racing driver and decorated federal agent who specialized in vehicle surveillance, car theft, and high-speed pursuits. After years of watching officials bury evidence and use technology to spy on ordinary people, he resigns and disappears from public life.

While working as a private mechanic, Jack discovers that a new government vehicle network is secretly linking connected cars, traffic cameras, police systems, drones, and license plate scanners. The program is presented as a way to reduce crime and traffic deaths, but Jack learns its real purpose is to control where people can go, monitor political opposition, and shut down anyone considered a threat.

Jack steals a prototype vehicle containing the evidence. The government frames him for murder and brands him a terrorist. His former colleagues are ordered to bring him in, unaware that their own department is part of the cover-up.

Using his racing skills, police training, mechanical knowledge, and hacking ability, Jack stays ahead of the authorities. He removes tracking equipment from the prototype, changes vehicles, disrupts surveillance, and exposes pieces of the conspiracy while leading police through a series of spectacular high speed chases.

Eventually, Jack learns that the plan goes all the way to the highest levels of government and includes major car manufacturers and technology companies. The goal is to make the public completely dependent on connected vehicles that can be tracked, controlled, or disabled remotely.

With help from a former police dispatcher and an honest agent who begins questioning the orders, Jack breaks into the network during a nationally televised demonstration of the system. He releases every secret file, altered report, surveillance order, and corporate communication to the public.

The conspiracy collapses. Government officials are arrested, executives are prosecuted, and the vehicle companies are forced to abandon undisclosed tracking and remote-control systems. New laws require cars to have physical controls, mechanical backups, and technology that owners can remove or disable.

During the final chase, Jack’s high-tech prototype is remotely shut down. He abandons it and escapes in an old manual-transmission muscle car hidden in a repair shop.

At dawn, Jack gets inside, presses the clutch, shifts into first, and drives away. The car has no GPS, no cameras, and no connection to the network.

He steps on the clutch and shifts into first as the road opens ahead of him.

Cut to black.