The Lost Bus [Movie Review]

The Lost Bus [Movie Review] | Hey! It's  Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera in a story based on real event.

Hopefully it is interesting enough. I'll let you know by the end of this review. 

SYNOPSIS

The Lost Bus (2025) Trivia

• Starring: Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera, Yul Vazquez, Ashlie Atkinson & Katie Wharton
• Director: Paul Greengrass
• Producer: Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Blum, Brad Ingelsby & Gregory Goodman
• Production Company: Apple Studios, Blumhouse Productions & Comet Pictures

• Distributed by: Apple Original Films

• Release date: September 19, 2025
• Running time: 130 minutes
• Rating: R (For language)
• Country: United States
• Language: English
• IMDb: 6.9/ 10
• Tomatometer: 86%
• Metascore: 64%
• Based on the real 2018 Camp Fire, California’s deadliest blaze which claimed 85 lives, destroyed 13,500 homes and caused over $16.5 billion in damages.
• Bus driver Kevin McKay hadn't been a bus driver for very long before the 2018 fire erupted. 
• Filmed in Ruidoso, NM in April 2024, just two months before the real Southfork wildfire devastated the village. 
• Three generations of McConaugheys share the screen — Matthew, his mom Kay and his son Levi.

Kevin McKay is no hero — not by any stretch. His marriage lies in ruins, his teenage son Shaun despises him, his mother is slipping into dementia, and even his loyal dog meets a tragic end. Life, it seems, has turned against Kevin and he can’t seem to catch a break. Even his plea for extra shifts as a school bus driver falls on deaf ears.

Then, fate intervenes, violently.

When a faulty power line ignites one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history, Kevin receives a desperate call from his dispatcher to pick up 23 children trapped at an elementary school and get them out. With flames devouring everything in their path, Kevin and teacher Mary Ludwig find themselves steering a yellow school bus straight into the heart of chaos.

At first, Kevin follows instructions. But when the main road becomes gridlocked and the fire creeps closer, instinct or perhaps something deeper, takes over. He veers off course, choosing a back road he knows like the back of his hand.

It’s a decision that could mean salvation or certain death.

The detour leads them straight into a wall of flames. Smoke swallows the daylight, cars melt into the asphalt, and through it all, the bus pushes forward the sea of fire.

Every second counts as Kevin and Mary battle the inferno and their own rising fear. With fire closing in from every direction and air turning to poison, hope flickers like the last ember in the storm.

Will the battered orange bus outrun the inferno or vanish, swallowed by the flames?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• The performance by a great cast - beautiful. I could literally feel their desparation.    

What I Don't Like:

• None I would say.  

Will I Watch It Again: Yes, but not in my go-to list to rewatch.

Overall: 4.5/ 5.0

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