Lockdown

It took me a while to make sure that it wasn't bad on purpose. You spend more time wondering how a film like this could be made... who spent money on it... and why? Obviously folks who like a lot of cheap violence. And on top of all of this... the lightning is horrible.

One of the biggest wastes of film I've ever seen.. I was watching to see Michael pare but he was wasted.. this is garbage................................

A cluster muddle of stereotype characters locked in a cliché hostage negotiation with dreadful dialogue and a massively intrusive soundtrack. Other than that it is not too bad!

This is a vapid vanity project written, directed and produced by Massimiliano Cerchi, never seen anything from him before and hope not to in the future. Nobody emerges with glory from what is without doubt the worst movie I have had the misfortune to endure this year.

THIS was directed by experienced director Massimiliano Cerchi, who also wrote it along with another experienced writer? A 5th grader could write and direct this better. We did watch the entire film, because we changed our attitude that we were watching a comedy, and the beers and bongs eased the pain of what we were put through.

There is absolutely nothing redeeming about this mess, with the only exception being Michael Wainwright as McMasters, who's performance was Oscar-worthy - compared to the others, including Pare, who seemed asleep for the most part. I'm sure most of the poor acting blame goes to Cerchi, who clearly offered zero cast direction. Scott Engrotti as Snake was decent, but everyone else was unconvincing, especially the female FBI officer, and Bai Ling, who I couldn't understand anything she was saying over her constant yelling and screaming, and who was just annoying af.

The writing was also by far the worst I have seen, riddled with plot and technical issues, incohesive and total nonsense, especially each time the plot changed from scene to scene. There was zero credibility in how the FBI handled the entire situation, and eating and drinking coffee seemed more important and abundant. The best part of the film was the ten-second dream Bai Ling had. The rest of it was slow, boring and cringeworthy. The editing was the worst I have ever seen, the sound and score typical B-film unfitting and annoying.

I don't know who funded and greenlight Cerchi's final cut and said "awesome, let's go to market", but they all need to take up a new hobby. This mess makes all the recent Bruce Willis flops seem like Oscar-worthy films. Yup, it's THAT bad. And even worse that an experienced director and writer gave us this nonsense. It's a very generous 3/10, mostly all going to Wainwright's amazing (compared to the rest) performance.

.....but whatever meds McMasters needs would be sent to, and administered at whatever facility he was housed in. The whole movie is based on his paranoid schizophrenia, so why not set the stage at the only police station that doesn't follow the medication procedure.

Michael Paré hasn't made anything worthwhile since his "Eddy and the Cruisers" days, but some efforts are better than others, and considering this script is so full of holes, he isn't horrible in this.

This movie isn't a ten, but it ain't no one either.