I give it a 'C'


It feels like a film directed by someone who is used to doing TV and hasn't quite shifted gears into film story telling.

The "tension" for the first 30 minutes (which is waaaaay long, the set up should be done in half that time) is just characters withholding information that only they know. What happens to Sunny should have happened in 15-20 minutes, not almost 40. There needed to be more aggressive editing for sure, there are a few scenes that are completely unnecessary, and the story only then gets moved forward by blackout montages instead.

It is professionally enough shot, the main characters are competently acted, Garcia is good, but there is a just a stilted forced quality to it all.

It ends up feeling like a PG13 movie-of-the-week however.

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I gave it a 5/10



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Good assessment. I would only add that the protagonist's decisions were beyond stupid. I understand that the "monkey on his back" compromised his reasoning and behavior, but that last sequence should not have even occurred, especially as he was an experienced narcotics agent.

No character would be that dumb, I have a short fuse when tolerating unlikely dramatic contrivances to float a feature film.









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I too gave it a 5/10. The beginning and ending were good, but the middle really dragged in my opinion.

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