Aaron Pierre stars in this Netflix action-thriller that sees a small town's corrupt local police force seizing former Marine Terry's money for a trumped-up misdemeanour, which would have been used to secure bail for his cousin, leading to a one-man battle against the bad guys. Essentially an extremely subdued 2024 update of Rambo but with minimal action and violence, the film plods along at its relentlessly steady pace and never really delivers on its premise. Aaron Pierre is capable both in measured ex-marine and fighter modes, and Don Johnson is solidly unpleasant as the town's chief of police. The first extended part is a fairly effective slow-burn thriller set-up, with the second half working out why the town became so corrupt and Terry meting out vengeance, but even a late-in-the-day one man versus the entire town/police force face-off fails to lift the film above sincere but plodding.
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