Don't get tricked by the clearly bogus high reviews. It goes to show you how little faith the filmmakers have in their own production to resort to such blatant tactics to try and deceive their potential audience. This was so bad, if there was a listing for C-films, this would still be at the bottom of the list. The bogus high reviews are way more entertaining than this wannabe action thriller.
It's shocking this mess was directed by someone who apparently has 24 previous directorial credits. Director Paul Tanter couldn't even direct his cast properly. Then you have Deji LaRay as Floyd, who cast himself as the lead, produced and wrote this nonsense, that was riddled with plot and technical issues. A few examples: His wife gets kidnapped, but he sits down for a nice dinner laughing and eating with all these people, THEN finally gets his bullet-hole wound simply bandaged over after he's done chatting and eating. The next day, he uses a long very noticeable orange canoe and apparently sneaks onto a small touring boat in broad daylight and no one sees him approaching or boarding the boat. Seriously? The lack of common sense and realism in this film is astounding.
There is absolutely nothing redeemable about this sloppy nonsense. The directing was terrible and lacked any urgency. Even at a mere 90 mins runtime, with the slow pacing and long dragged out and mostly unnecessary scenes, this felt like a never ending nightmare. The writing was cliched and generic, with a story that's been done thousands of times before, and every one of them done much better than this. A fifth grade drama class can write, direct and produce a better school play.
LaRay cast himself as some tough-guy soldier, yet had zero combat skills or tactics, and couldn't even hold or use a gun properly. The action and fight scenes are hilariously bad. Clearly this film was a failed attempt at a vanity project for LaRay trying to make himself look like some action hero. His acting was laughably bad and unconvincing, as was everyone else's - only partial blame can go to bad cast direction. Only Simon Phillips was anywhere close to any sort of convincing character. Listed as an action thriller, there's zero thrills and any action is hilariously bad, so this nonsense should've been listed as a comedy.
I've reviewed over 1,700 films and rated over 3,000, and this mess is on my top ten worst films of all time. I hope it gets nominated for a Razzie award, it certainly qualifies.
