Domenic Purcell here portrays the husband of a sick wife, Jim. He is one of the people that suffered heavily from the economic crisis, but on top of that he and his wife have hefty medical bills on their hands, from her cancer treatment. Helpless Jim sinks deeper and deeper into financial (and personal) debts, while the Wall Street brokers that cheated him and others show no sign of remorse for taking their money to save themselves. When everything looks impossible, Jim takes things into his own hands to say the least.
The script offers the very basic methods to make the hard-working- financially-troubled protagonist look beaten unfairly down by the bad men before rising up. There's nothing wrong with a simple plot, but it looks like it is supposed to be very dark and serious and instead usually it looks too unrealistic. The buildup is filled with repetitions, where the viewer is told many ways how bad everything looks for Jim and his wife. Slow build-up can be intriguing and build up extra excitement for the second part of the film but for this case it looks more like stretching. All the supporting characters don't get the time they need for the viewer to care for them at all and give very little to the story. Purcell though gives an adequate performance, all he really has to do is look sad and angry and fell some tears, but he does it well. The buildup could be much more compact and still have time for more character depth. When the film finally takes off it is hard to fall back into it.
I cannot specially recommend this one, everything is mediocre at best. It would have been much more fun to see Uwe Boll give it his usual touch of schlock instead of trying too hard to be realistic and serious.
The script offers the very basic methods to make the hard-working- financially-troubled protagonist look beaten unfairly down by the bad men before rising up. There's nothing wrong with a simple plot, but it looks like it is supposed to be very dark and serious and instead usually it looks too unrealistic. The buildup is filled with repetitions, where the viewer is told many ways how bad everything looks for Jim and his wife. Slow build-up can be intriguing and build up extra excitement for the second part of the film but for this case it looks more like stretching. All the supporting characters don't get the time they need for the viewer to care for them at all and give very little to the story. Purcell though gives an adequate performance, all he really has to do is look sad and angry and fell some tears, but he does it well. The buildup could be much more compact and still have time for more character depth. When the film finally takes off it is hard to fall back into it.
I cannot specially recommend this one, everything is mediocre at best. It would have been much more fun to see Uwe Boll give it his usual touch of schlock instead of trying too hard to be realistic and serious.