Rally
2024 · 10m · CA
Directed by Santiago Menghini
Genres: action, animation, thriller
Two underground smugglers in a modified rally car transport an unwilling hostage across a contested border — a real-time 3D animated thriller built entirely in Unreal Engine by one filmmaker.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Menghini, a proven genre craftsman, here builds a fully self-sufficient action film inside a game engine — a work that situates itself squarely within the tradition of constraint-bred formal invention.
Solo-built Unreal Engine action thriller — 2.1 million YouTube views suggests technical achievement, but action narrative quality from one person in a game engine usually shows the seams. Curiosity over enthusiasm.
One person, Unreal Engine, ten-minute action thriller with 2.1M YouTube views — the achievement is the production model, not the story. Curious as a craft case study; cautious about whether the narrative earns it.