In spite of the protagonist brothers having a good backstory and the current issue at hand is one that has to be created within a certain time, The Wages of Fear feels slow and unfinished.

Making it more action-driven isn’t necessarily a problem if the character relationships and the core of Arnaud’s story remain intact and as thrilling as they were. But there are little thrills to be had in this hackneyed version.

This Wages of Fear is a slick but unremarkable rendering of Arnaud’s premise, mostly sacrificing tense situations with the nitro in favor of clunky flashbacks and boring shootouts.

There isn't much here to justify this remake.