A rather unintentionally comical revenge-fantasy of sorts will only impress younger males with a loopy corruption-fighting plot achieving far less then V for Vendetta's occasional riles.
Troy Duffy obviously took a pop crash course in Tarantino 101, but like so many other second-rate castoff filmmakers, only manages to exploit hip looking gun-play in the kind of way that goes good with mediocre techno.
Here the only anchor to a naive show-off's indulgences of poor and/or lifeless (terrible leads) actors reading from a bad script are Duffy's undeniable creativity when actually executing some of the action sequences, and the surprising commitment he got out of Willem Dafoe.
For the teenage cult hit it has become, the blacklisted writer-director proves himself a promising flash of at least a certain type of talent, simply not the type that transcends past age 22.
Troy Duffy obviously took a pop crash course in Tarantino 101, but like so many other second-rate castoff filmmakers, only manages to exploit hip looking gun-play in the kind of way that goes good with mediocre techno.
Here the only anchor to a naive show-off's indulgences of poor and/or lifeless (terrible leads) actors reading from a bad script are Duffy's undeniable creativity when actually executing some of the action sequences, and the surprising commitment he got out of Willem Dafoe.
For the teenage cult hit it has become, the blacklisted writer-director proves himself a promising flash of at least a certain type of talent, simply not the type that transcends past age 22.