Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
A radio host, played by Mel Gibson, has his family held hostage live on air.
Man this film is hard to get through. Mel Gibson love him or hate him, is absolutely unbearable here and has one of his worst and hardest to like characters ever, honestly it feels so much like the cliched old man complaining about kids today that at times I had to check and see whether the film was a parody of something. This characters is awful to everyone around them and then we are supposed to care when his family get taken hostage and want him to save them, no honestly I just felt nothing.
Then as the film progresses we get the twist, and boy is the twist going to annoy you. Everything that has happened up until that point in the end of the second act has just been one big prank, surprise. This is terrible because it feels in line with one of those dumb it was all a dream plots and makes you feel like you have wasted your time which is the worst part for sure.
In terms of Gibson’s performance there is a question to be asked here about less being better. Gibson makes so many of these straight to DVD films or straight to streaming that he doesn’t turn up and not only that but he feels angry to be there and that comes through in his performance, not in a good way.
Overall, if this is the sort of trash Gibson is putting out these days then his career as a movie icon is well and truly dead.
Pros.
It is unintentionally hilarious at times
Cons.
The twist is awful
Gibson is loathsome
Gibson doesn’t bother to give a performance here he is just there reading lines
It is too long
It doesn’t respect the audience even a tiny bit
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