I recently caught this movie on cable. While the production values definitely had a lower budget, indie feel I thought the movie was quite good. I love small scale action drama movies and this was an excellent example...up until the end. The movie ends very abruptly and with a completely unnecessary cliffhanger that is resolved literally seconds later. To me it felt like an ending that was deliberately placed there by one of these possibilities:
1. The production ran out of money. They wanted to shoot a better ending but simply couldn't due to budget.
2. The studio pressured the director to make a cut, and so to spite them she literally took a meat cleaver to the film.
When the realities of film making tend to stick their noses so blatantly into a movie it tends to ruin the rest of it for me.
I give it a six out of ten, but I will definitely keep eye open for this director in the future.
1. The production ran out of money. They wanted to shoot a better ending but simply couldn't due to budget.
2. The studio pressured the director to make a cut, and so to spite them she literally took a meat cleaver to the film.
When the realities of film making tend to stick their noses so blatantly into a movie it tends to ruin the rest of it for me.
I give it a six out of ten, but I will definitely keep eye open for this director in the future.