Dave Bautista stars with Robert DeNiro in Bus 657

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino-American Dave Bautista, a mixed martial arts and wrestler-turned-actor who has starred in record-breaking films like Guardians of the Galaxy, Riddick and Spectre, stars in another high-octane, high-speed chase action movie Bus 657 (also known as Heist) along with an impressive cast headed by Robert DeNiro, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Morris Chestnut, Kate Bosworth and Gina Carano.

Bautista, also a world-wrestling champion is known to do his action scenes without doubles as he had done in Spectre, and had quite doubled the effort in his chase and fight scenes in Bus 657, where he takes on the role of a casino worker-turned-robber who took on a highly-dangerous heist job against his employer. The movie’s non-stop action speeds up when Vaughn (Morgan), a father who is in desperate need of money to save his daughter’s life was rejected by his mob boss Pope (DeNiro) and turns to his psychotic co-worker Cox (Bautista) to rob the casino where they work. But when their attempt goes awry and a shootout ensues, they are forced to flee on foot and hijack city Bus 657 and take their passengers hostage. Now, on a high speed chase, Vaughn and Cox will not only have to outwit the police, led by Officer Bajos (Carano) who are in hot pursuit, but he will have to contend with Pope’s maniacal right-hand man who will stop at nothing to protect Pope’s empire, Dog (Chestnut), in order to make it through the day alive. But as the chase heightens, the two turns things up to and reveals that they have more than one card up his sleeves.

Reminiscent of action thrillers such as the Keanu Reeves-starrer Speed and great heist movies such as Ocean’s 11, Bus 657 also brings back DeNiro in a mob boss role at the heels of his iconic portrayals from classic Casino and The Godfather movies. Taking on the role of menacing, ruthless kingpin in Bus 657, DeNiro’s role as Pope isn’t one to let things slide when his two employees try to rob his casino and will take everything from them to get even.

Directed by Scott Mann, Bus 657 is a star-studded non-thrilling action movie from Pioneer Films now showing in theaters nationwide.