Aside from amateur-hour directing with the non-stop shaky cam, terrible editing, long dragged out and unnecessary scenes, and horrible action choreography, director and co-writer Brandon Slagle couldn't even direct his cast properly, especially Sizemore, who came across like this was his first ever acting job. The only convincing actor was Mandylor, who can always hold his own no matter how bad the directing is.
But where this film went from bad to cringeworthy eye-rolls, was the verbal diarrhea-infested dialogue that took three writers to come up with, of which all apparently felt was film-worthy. Never mind the entire cat-and-mouse story that was riddled with cliches and plot holes in a story we've all seen many times before, but when over 80% of the dialogue is irrelevant to the main narrative and filled with daddy, mommy and criminal issues, the writing can't be rated any worse. A fifth grade drama class could come up with a better story and dialogue.
Had all the nonsense dialogue and dragged out scenes been cut out, we may have had a watchable 20 min short film. But instead, we get this unwatchable "normally very comfortable" 86 min runtime mess, that felt like I was watching a film over 3 hours long. It started off ok, but after the first act, it went downhill fast, and ended up with the lamest and most predictable ending you can guess. You can literally fast-forward most of the film and not miss a thing. It's a very generous 4/10 from me, all to Mandylor who carried the entire film, and out of pity that this nonsense was one of Sizemore's last films.
But where this film went from bad to cringeworthy eye-rolls, was the verbal diarrhea-infested dialogue that took three writers to come up with, of which all apparently felt was film-worthy. Never mind the entire cat-and-mouse story that was riddled with cliches and plot holes in a story we've all seen many times before, but when over 80% of the dialogue is irrelevant to the main narrative and filled with daddy, mommy and criminal issues, the writing can't be rated any worse. A fifth grade drama class could come up with a better story and dialogue.
Had all the nonsense dialogue and dragged out scenes been cut out, we may have had a watchable 20 min short film. But instead, we get this unwatchable "normally very comfortable" 86 min runtime mess, that felt like I was watching a film over 3 hours long. It started off ok, but after the first act, it went downhill fast, and ended up with the lamest and most predictable ending you can guess. You can literally fast-forward most of the film and not miss a thing. It's a very generous 4/10 from me, all to Mandylor who carried the entire film, and out of pity that this nonsense was one of Sizemore's last films.
