They had about 60 minutes worth of story, and padded it out with long shootouts.
And more long shootouts through what looked like drywall.
Which should have ended the "standoff" in about 3 minutes, with the folks on the other side of the drywall dead.
Then they padded some more, by (tiniest of SPOILER) giving us an interminable (and terribly acted) scene full of meaningful glares in a moving vehicle. Stretching the scene out, even more, with freeze frames and supplying us with the names of the disposable bad guys. Names that had no importance or meaning to the rest of the film. At all.
Which is too bad, really, as I have a suspicion that Scott Adkins might actually be able to pull off a good leading role if he had an actual script to work with. And perhaps an actual director who wasn't trying to channel Sergio Leone meets Shaw Brothers.
Had the potential to be a decent, gut-bucket B-movie, but the delusions of being better than it was defeated everyone involved.
And more long shootouts through what looked like drywall.
Which should have ended the "standoff" in about 3 minutes, with the folks on the other side of the drywall dead.
Then they padded some more, by (tiniest of SPOILER) giving us an interminable (and terribly acted) scene full of meaningful glares in a moving vehicle. Stretching the scene out, even more, with freeze frames and supplying us with the names of the disposable bad guys. Names that had no importance or meaning to the rest of the film. At all.
Which is too bad, really, as I have a suspicion that Scott Adkins might actually be able to pull off a good leading role if he had an actual script to work with. And perhaps an actual director who wasn't trying to channel Sergio Leone meets Shaw Brothers.
Had the potential to be a decent, gut-bucket B-movie, but the delusions of being better than it was defeated everyone involved.