The Hard Hit

I would give this film a zero if I could. I can not think of a single redeeming thing about this film, actually yes I can the 75 minutes of run time, but even this felt more like 3 hours long. Everything about this film is bad. The plot, it almost has a very slow one which is so obvious its painful. The wooden acting is well wooden and awful in every way, the random wobble camera effect at least that makes you feel off balance so takes your mind off the film for a few seconds. The mind numbing back ground music, it's almost endless it will not just shut up and stop. All it needed to make it even worse if that is possible would have been a Steven Seagal guest appearance as a hero, actually that may have improved it just for the giggle factor.

I'm less than a quarter through the movie and had to stop and warn others. This is an awful awful movie. Not even the fun type of awful, just the awful that leaves your soul wounded. Every word of every line is delivered like a 12 year old reading off a cue card. It's just so so dry and monotonous, and there is not a single line of dialoug that sounds natural. Every role is played by the most stiff actors they could find and higher. Every character as they talk show emotion like npcs from ps2 rpgs. It trys to take its self so seriously but comes off like it was written by chat gpt.thrnmajn characters bald cap doesn't even match his skin tone.

If you were lucky enough to have seen 'The Lawnmower Man' (not the Stephen King version), directed by Murda Pain (no, I'm not joking), then congrats. You've seen one movie that is worse than 'The Hard Hit'. There is absolutely nothing about this movie that isn't terrible. I literally got up to use the bathroom in the beginning, during the scene where the Irish guy is with his family in the front yard. I was certain that this was a commercial for some sort of medication. The acting was atrocious, the dialogue worse. Even the music was embarrassing. I watched about 15 minutes before turning it off.

Don't be fooled by the 10 ratings. Obviously that was seeded by the movie team. The 1 ratings are the authentic reviews. The acting is horrendous and cheap. Most of the time, the actors have a slight smirk on their face as if trying to make themselves look tough and unafraid. Their expressions don't seem real and it reminds you that they're acting, really bad acting. The music score at times doesn't really vibe with the scenes. The fight scenes don't seem realistic. You can actually see the step by step in the choreography with the pauses. The plot sounds good but is executed poorly. The camera work looks like a school project for cinematography.

Truly unwatchable.

Please don't be fooled by the early rating. This is really bad and it doesn't get better. They make you enter six hundred characters to submit a review, but there is nothing else to say. There is nothing that redeems this movie. Not the script, not the acting, not the production, not the soundtrack, not costumes - literally nothing.

About the acting - the lead in this movie and the impact to the entirety of the crew that support the movie industry are two good reasons to the hate the AI clause of the proposed SAG contract.

I hope you find a better way to spend 80 minutes.