Close Range (2015)

Perfect cast and a good story

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

After unwittingly making off with a mysterious flash drive during the rescue of his young niece from a powerful drug cartel, Colton MacReady is thrust into a relentless fight to save his family as the cartel descends upon his sister's home in search of it. In tow is a corrupt local sheriff and his crew of deputies, ensuring that help won't be coming any time soon. Close Range is once again the damn bad movie that you shouldn't expected it to be but unfortunately ends up being with it's badly written story to the laughably awful cgi shots coming from the guns.

Wow, this movies is like a roller-coaster ride. Not in a very good way, unfortunately. The action is varying to say the least. Some of it, mostly the fighting, is pretty cool. Not shaky, you see whats going on, decent choreography, pretty cool at times. Not overly edited, either.But the gunfight are not that good. Some of the shoot-outs just keep going, on and on, with no progress. The same shots recycled several times. Goes on for several minutes (felt like) then they change spots, and repeats the same thing. That's pretty dull. It reminded me of how in a video game, if you're in a gunfight, and your objective is to reach a checkpoint or something, but as long as you don't go forward, the gunfight just keeps happening, with no real progress. Get it? No, yes? Anyway, that's the feeling I got from some of the action scenes.However, super generic gunfights are followed by pretty awesome fights. (well, one or two times, at least one!) My guess is that the second unit director made some of the filler gunfights, and then the main director made the better ones. (Or maybe the other way around?)Close Range has a couple of sweet moments, the first action scene is probably maybe the best one, but mostly it's just very generic. Too much filler, dammit.

I always feel "there cannot be anything worse than this" when I watch something like this. But then I remember that I have actually seen some worse things. So I want to be generous and I give 2 stars. The guy is actually not thaaaaaaat bad. Looks a bit like Ben Affleck with more muscles. But all the rest is as pathetic as it can be. I really cannot imagine which kind of people can really enjoy and like this film. I am sure that there must be somebody. And I am sure that's not me, and not anybody who is used to at least mid level of quality. Here you will not find any level of quality at all. Quoting Kung Fu Panda "there is now a level 0".

This is rare for me To see an Actors name on the Title and say This is going to be a bad film . But with Scott Adkins that's the way it is Really he must know someone very big to keep putting this guy in films. He has not had one big winner yet . HERCULES 3D was a total flop . I just dint buy this guy in movies Cheap video games are better choreographed than this movie. Unless you are 10 years old, don't even bother. I had to force myself to finish it. I'm racking my brain trying to come up with the minimum of 10 lines of text required for this review and all that I can think of is to beg you not to waste your time. Even the worse Steven Seagal movie ranks better. The plot is juvenile and the acting is as bad as in a low production, two o'clock in the morning SyFy Chanel flick. And the whistling at key action scenes is just annoying. Thumbs down all the way. If this is the kind of roles that Adkins is being cast on, I can only advise him to fire his agent.