Jim is living a peaceful life with a decent paying job and a loving family.
Everything changes when the economy crashes causing Jim to lose everything.
Filled with anger and rage, Jim snaps and goes to extreme lengths to seek revenge for the life, and potential good life, taken away from him......
If I ever wanted to change the name of a film, it would have to be this one, and I would call it 'The Unluckiest Man In The World', because, wow, does he have some poor luck.
He loses money, lots of it, and because of this, he loses his job, and when John Connor gives him $10,000 (easy money), he hires the Lesser known Roberts sibling, who wastes his money anyway.
And to top it all off (no pun intended), his cancer suffering wife takes her own life, because she doesn't want to bother him with her illness.
And I'm sure it happens in the space of a couple of days.......
Its a lot to take in, and because of all his bad luck, the most feasible of Bolls films becomes more of the same, and even though I've grown tolerant of his film style and motivational coaching, the exploitation part if the film seems pretty pointless because of the maundering build up.
Lessen the bad luck, have the wife healthy and run away with the guy who lost ll his money, and then we'd have a proper exploitation revenge flick, with a message of the dangers of playing with your life savings and your marriage.
The twist at the end is pretty clever, but it's be more convincing if Purcell wasn't cast as the lead (no offence to the man, he puts in a great performance).
All in all. Its a pretty bland affair, offering too little too late.
Stick with Rampage, for a decent, shocking Boll film.
Everything changes when the economy crashes causing Jim to lose everything.
Filled with anger and rage, Jim snaps and goes to extreme lengths to seek revenge for the life, and potential good life, taken away from him......
If I ever wanted to change the name of a film, it would have to be this one, and I would call it 'The Unluckiest Man In The World', because, wow, does he have some poor luck.
He loses money, lots of it, and because of this, he loses his job, and when John Connor gives him $10,000 (easy money), he hires the Lesser known Roberts sibling, who wastes his money anyway.
And to top it all off (no pun intended), his cancer suffering wife takes her own life, because she doesn't want to bother him with her illness.
And I'm sure it happens in the space of a couple of days.......
Its a lot to take in, and because of all his bad luck, the most feasible of Bolls films becomes more of the same, and even though I've grown tolerant of his film style and motivational coaching, the exploitation part if the film seems pretty pointless because of the maundering build up.
Lessen the bad luck, have the wife healthy and run away with the guy who lost ll his money, and then we'd have a proper exploitation revenge flick, with a message of the dangers of playing with your life savings and your marriage.
The twist at the end is pretty clever, but it's be more convincing if Purcell wasn't cast as the lead (no offence to the man, he puts in a great performance).
All in all. Its a pretty bland affair, offering too little too late.
Stick with Rampage, for a decent, shocking Boll film.