Showing posts with label Blackout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blackout. Show all posts

Friday, 21 October 2022

VOD: Blackout (dir: Sam Macaroni, 2022)

"How many six-foot-three Ken dolls just show up with bumps on their head, within a hundred-mile radius of Toussaint, south of north of the border?"

Josh Duhamel wakes up in a Mexican hospital with post-traumatic amnesia (but soon discovers he has 'special skills') and finds himself being hunted down in the hospital by a local Cartel as he tries to find his identity, the truth and also survive in this underpowered action-thriller.  Essentially, the film is a rather basic  extended fight sequence set in various locations within the hospital; Duhamel growls his way through the bone-crunching fights and sells them quite effectively, Nick Nolte barely makes it through his lines, and the film offers nothing beyond its low-bar remit.  John Wick and John Woo hang heavy over this film which does not come anywhere close to these but delivers straightforward uncomplicated action for undemanding genre fans.