House of the Rising Sun
Another wrestler turns actor - this time Dave 'The Animal' Batista has become Dave Bautista and plays Ray, a dirty cop who is an ex-con who is now a security guard for a mobbed up night club: 'House of the Rising Sun'.
One night he is working when a hold up takes place. He tries to keep everything calm but that doesn't happen and people get killed. Among the dead is the son of the club owner.
Ray quickly learns that he is being set-up and that everyone is out for him: the cops and the mob.
He is being set up by Tony (Dominic Purcell) who is second in command of the local mob and he wants to to take charge and he is going to use Ray to get there.
Ray has to prove he is not the traitor. It being the sort of film it is - he does.
Surprisingly for a film with an ex-WWE superstar the action is pretty low key, a few fights and a few quick gun battles. That makes it pretty standard fare which has to stand or fall on the strength of the story and acting. Bautista (as he is now known) isn't a bad actor but like everyone else in the film he isn't working with much.
This is standard fare.
It also has one of the lamest 'catch gun and fire' sequences ever.
I do have to say that I did rather enjoy the opening scenes in the club as the ladies who worked there were pretty tasty.
Not a film you would watch a second time.
IMDB gives is 4.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes has no score from critics and so far 67% of the potential audience say they want to see the movie.
Directed by: Brian A Miller
Written by: Brian A Miller (screenplay), Chuck Hustmyre (novel)
Released 2011
Length 90 minutes
Berkshire Axis Media
Buy it here - but I would wait until it is very very cheap.
Neither poster is any good.
One night he is working when a hold up takes place. He tries to keep everything calm but that doesn't happen and people get killed. Among the dead is the son of the club owner.
Ray quickly learns that he is being set-up and that everyone is out for him: the cops and the mob.
He is being set up by Tony (Dominic Purcell) who is second in command of the local mob and he wants to to take charge and he is going to use Ray to get there.
Ray has to prove he is not the traitor. It being the sort of film it is - he does.
Surprisingly for a film with an ex-WWE superstar the action is pretty low key, a few fights and a few quick gun battles. That makes it pretty standard fare which has to stand or fall on the strength of the story and acting. Bautista (as he is now known) isn't a bad actor but like everyone else in the film he isn't working with much.
This is standard fare.
It also has one of the lamest 'catch gun and fire' sequences ever.
I do have to say that I did rather enjoy the opening scenes in the club as the ladies who worked there were pretty tasty.
Not a film you would watch a second time.
IMDB gives is 4.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes has no score from critics and so far 67% of the potential audience say they want to see the movie.
Directed by: Brian A Miller
Written by: Brian A Miller (screenplay), Chuck Hustmyre (novel)
Released 2011
Length 90 minutes
Berkshire Axis Media
Buy it here - but I would wait until it is very very cheap.
Neither poster is any good.
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