Though writer-director Bryan Anthony Ramirez keeps things moving apace, he trots out so many familiar tropes that it's often like watching a highlights reel from a lifetime's worth of urban crime dramas.
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VarietyScott Foundas
VarietyScott Foundas
The movies by their very nature require a certain suspension of disbelief, but Mission Park requires more suspension than a two-ton crane could provide.
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Village VoiceChris Packham
Village VoiceChris Packham
The tense prologue of writer-director Bryan Ramirez's Mission Park...evokes a tactile, scary reality utterly betrayed by the following 90-minute string of hackneyed, basic-cable plotting and dialogue.
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The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
[A] regrettably hokey first feature from Bryan Anthony Ramirez.
