Recoil (2012)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Spoiler Alert!!! I really enjoyed this little film despite it has a very confusing storyline about a man who goes on a killing rampage against the killers of his wife or somebody close to him! This movie is full of action that a normal action movie fan would be satisfied with. Danny Trejo again is a pretty decent villain as always. The movie is pretty awesome and if you are a fan of gold old fist fighting check out the end fight scene! There's not a lot to say about this movie other than it is a simple yet action packed film. Danny Trejo and Austin want to kill each other from beginning to end which you gotta love. It was way better and had less plot holes than Tactical Force which is why I have decided to rate it a 6 out of 10.

For some reason, Steve Austin never busted in the big screen like The Rock did, which is surprising considering Austin was just as good at acting in the WWE in term of his character and he is just a bit smaller physically(but still impressive). For some years now he has made some average to good direct to DVD movies and i can say i liked them in general. Last one i saw had Michael Jay White and Lexa Doig and was pretty good in term of general plot and action, but had some scenario inconsistency and non sense that downgraded it badly.Saw this one 2 days ago and honestly i appreciated it. Putting Mr hundreds of movie Danny Trejo as the big bad is a sure value in term of villain. This guy have played all sorts of characters from cannon fodder characters to villains to father figure and even lead good guy. He definitely nail the part solid in this movie as well. Austin plays a kinda "Punisher" character. He was a cop, his family was murdered and he has now decided to punish the worst criminals himself. He is now so loud, acting impressive and i would say he nail the part pretty well also.The action is decent, yet i think there could be more. The fights are made in a tough thug kind of way. No martial arts is show in this movie, the fights are mostly street boxing type. I got to say i usually prefer the first, but in this movie it wouldn't had work at all as the bad guys are a bunch of bikers.Thecnically this movie is a solid direct to DVD release and is entertaining, but it represent well the DTDVD type in term of action, special effect, recycled plot(yet good to watch)

Austin plays some guy who has a beef with Dany Trejo and his biker gang.Truth is, his wife and child were killed, and obviously Machete is too blame.So Austin spends the majority of the movie looking serious and doing his best lumbering 'Crow' impression, wreaking vengeance and looking mean.....The only wrestlers who have ever made any impact on the big screen are the Rock, and maybe Cena. Austin has made one watchable movie, which was the Condemened, and now he is comfortable with direct to Blu Ray trash and The Expendables.This poor effort is by far his worst movie, and bored the living daylights out of me.I knew the film wasn't going to be groundbreaking, but this was something else. If like me you were bought up on eighties action, you may make the same mistake as me and give this a go.Please don't, it really doesn't do anything or go anywhere.

First of all, I should mention that I enjoy a lot of made-for-video movies, so you might understand why I was pumped up when I got my hands on a copy of RECOIL, because it starred not only Steve Austin, but Danny Trejo. However, I have to confess that I felt somewhat let down by the end results. The production values are okay, though some of the photography has that dark look you find in a lot of other low budget Canadian movies. But the screenplay is lacking, making a lot of time go by between action sequences, and containing plot elements and characters we have see A LOT before in other B movies. The action sequences, when they do come, aren't very exciting. And while Steve Austin and Danny Trejo do bring some presence to the movie simply by showing up, they don't deliver that much more - maybe they too found this story routine and predictable as well, and didn't think it was worth the effort to be more energetic. I guess the movie deserves some praise for giving some of my fellow Canadians some work in front of and behind the camera - but that's about all that's positive about this movie.