I don't often write reviews, but this stinking pile stuck with me so persistently that I'm hoping writing about it will help exorcise it. It's like I stepped in something on the street and this is my attempt to scrape it off my shoe.
Everything about it is terrible! The acting is awful. The script, directing and editing are even worse. It's an action movie without any action, and forget any enjoyable dialogue! It's long, slow, boring and confusing. It doesn't have a single redeeming feature!
Usually there's something in even the worst movie that justifies its existence. Not this one. Usually you can say 'well, the dialogue was bad, but at least the fight scenes had some punch' but no. The dialogue is slow and clunky, AND there isn't even the catharsis of a single actual fight scene! (There's a token gesture once or twice, and certainly some deaths, but nothing that comes close to qualifying for the term "fight") Or someone might say 'the acting wasn't great but the plot was engaging'. Not even close. The only actor whose performance was decent was Fahey as Ellis (though Ramirez as Santiago has potential, it certainly wasn't realized here), and the plot was a mishmash of thrown together garbage.
The only reason I stuck it out was for the hope that there would be some resolution, but there wasn't even that! Yes the bad guys die, but we never find out what actually happened to Max's daughter and Max's transition from a decent oaf with a TBI to an implacable but still not very smart vigilante is completely left to your imagination, even if the motive is obvious enough. And yes, that last sentence could be viewed as spoilers, but I figure anything I can do to save others from any more contact with this sticky stinking piece of garbage than absolutely necessary, is a public service.
