An incredibly strange low budget film that feels like a SOV horror film. That really is the best way to describe this.
Right of the bat we get a shootout/robbery in a house and the bad guys escape. After this we are introduced to our main character Sara (Bonnie Beck) who works as a singer in a band. Usually I find it quite irritating when a film decide to pad out the runtime just to show us concert footage but this sequence is cut short which I tought was a bummer because I really liked what I heard, a really nice AOR type song. Sara eventually gets caught up in the illegal diamond smuggling business, for what reason I have a hard time to tell (maybe she was just a part of this all along or forced into this). She teams up with a mercenary who helps her to fight the bad guys/mafia guys.
The positives I have to mention in the film is that the direcrtor did the best he could despite the low budget and what really holds this movie up is the entertaining action sequences along with a really cool score and soundtrack.
The acting was alright considering the low budget and most of the characters are likable. Even though it has a SOV feel to it I really liked the camerawork and actually the fact that it looks low budget (this helps with the atmosphere I would say). I also really appreciated that the film has many different locations, I've seen plenty of low budget movies that takes place at the same location almost every scene and Im really glad this film didn't go into that trap.
I still have a hard time to describe the storytline any further mainly because that's the movies biggest flaw, it's too much all over the place. It is very hard to follow and I sometimes had a very big problem to tell who's who because many of the characters look very similar.
Also I find that the film does lack in action in the middle section and some scenes like that drags on for a little too long for my liking. The runtime is too long, if it had a very good storyline to go along with it it would be fine but sadly no...
Overall I can only recommend this film to die hard low budget action type fans and if you expect quality in terms of a great storyline you should look elsewhere.
My rating: 5 out of 10.
Right of the bat we get a shootout/robbery in a house and the bad guys escape. After this we are introduced to our main character Sara (Bonnie Beck) who works as a singer in a band. Usually I find it quite irritating when a film decide to pad out the runtime just to show us concert footage but this sequence is cut short which I tought was a bummer because I really liked what I heard, a really nice AOR type song. Sara eventually gets caught up in the illegal diamond smuggling business, for what reason I have a hard time to tell (maybe she was just a part of this all along or forced into this). She teams up with a mercenary who helps her to fight the bad guys/mafia guys.
The positives I have to mention in the film is that the direcrtor did the best he could despite the low budget and what really holds this movie up is the entertaining action sequences along with a really cool score and soundtrack.
The acting was alright considering the low budget and most of the characters are likable. Even though it has a SOV feel to it I really liked the camerawork and actually the fact that it looks low budget (this helps with the atmosphere I would say). I also really appreciated that the film has many different locations, I've seen plenty of low budget movies that takes place at the same location almost every scene and Im really glad this film didn't go into that trap.
I still have a hard time to describe the storytline any further mainly because that's the movies biggest flaw, it's too much all over the place. It is very hard to follow and I sometimes had a very big problem to tell who's who because many of the characters look very similar.
Also I find that the film does lack in action in the middle section and some scenes like that drags on for a little too long for my liking. The runtime is too long, if it had a very good storyline to go along with it it would be fine but sadly no...
Overall I can only recommend this film to die hard low budget action type fans and if you expect quality in terms of a great storyline you should look elsewhere.
My rating: 5 out of 10.