My mind goes
numb trying to think of an original way to criticize yet another terrible low
budget action film with a supporting cast of unreliable aging action stars who
repeatedly display their willingness to participate in the creation of just
about any piece of garbage for a paycheck. I feel like I have reviewed this
movie ten times this year already. However slight the variation in plot and
cast, it always feels like the same torturous film to sit through and review.
Dolph Lundgren has a Masters degree in chemical engineering and received a
Fulbright Scholarship to MIT. He isn’t a stupid man, which leads me to believe
money is the only reason he continues to make stupid movies.
Despite the
cover art, Lundgren is not the star of this film, nor is Vinnie Jones or Randy
Couture. The story eventually involves them all, but the anti-hero protagonist
and cheesy narrator is Frank (Daniel Bonjour), a rising drug dealer and club
owner with his ruthless partner, Eddie (Gianni Capaldi). When they steal drugs
from Vincent (Jones) it involves them in a more dangerous world, including a
dirty cop named Reilly (Couture) and an FBI agent named Maxwell (Lundgren) on
their tail. The story is over-complicated while including underwritten dialogue
that sounds like something a seventeen-year-old might think up.
Thanks to
Stallone we now have a number of films that don’t include just one of the
outdated action stars, but instead give us several to make up for the fact that
none are as complete as they once were on their own. This would be forgivable
if only the screenplays had half a brain and/or some decent action. This one
has neither.
The Blu-ray/DVD
combo pack has two ways of watching this below average action film. The special
features include a making-of featurette.
Entertainment Value:
3/10
Quality of
Filmmaking: 2/10
Historical
Significance: 0/10
Disc Features: 3/10
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