The eponymous couple - Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith have hit it off after their first date and are driving when they are pulled over by a traffic cop. Quite quickly, things spiral out of control with both her and the cop shot - the latter, fatally. Almost immediately, they become Ohio's most wanted and with just about everyone on their tail. What happens next? On the face if it, the storyline is a little contrived to suit the point the film is trying to make: two innocent African Americans shoot bigoted white policeman in "self defence" - but the story actually develops into something less routine and more objective. It uses both of these characters to illustrate excesses in the behaviour of both sides, the stereotypical attitudes that prevail and Turner-Smith is, especially, at the top of her game as the lawyer who's conflicted pretty much from the start as to what ought to be their plan. To turn themselves in for "justice" or to flee assuming they won't get it! It's a romance with a little gritty humour to help humanise a fairly torrid scenario and the supporting effort from Bokeem Woodbine's "Uncle Earl" helps to add a little perspective to the story as it heads to a poignant, though entirely predicable, conclusion that did have shades of "Butch Cassidy..." to it. Subtly, the message of never judging a book by it's cover is quite poignantly made here and the film, though probably half an hour too long, makes the point forcefully.
