Scott Adkins is one of my go to actor that i pretty much have to watch anything he is in. Sometimes for the better, but others for the worst. It was obvious from the trailer he was gonna play the bad guy and there didn't seem to be a lot of martial arts, that said i still had to watch it.
Turn out the movie was actually better than i expected. Its obvious this has been shot on a low budget with very few filming locations, but everything look pretty good. Gunshots look great, and looked all done practical. I didn't noticed those cheap CGI blood splatter that often plague low budget action movies.
I was interested in the characters and i really liked Cara Jade Myers who play Emily. Lot of the movie is centered around her and her dynamic with the Sheriff who got dragged into this by Marshal Hayden (Billy Zane) vendetta against Kyle Rusk (Adkins), her husband.
When it comes to Scott Adkins himself, he does not have that much of screen time. He plays the vilain sure, and you do get action from him, but the movie center more around the Sheriff, the Marshals and Emily. Scott does an American accent rather well compare to his british native accent, but beside that he is very "basic" as a vilain. Basically the movie would had been the same without Scott playing the role. But thats not to say he was not good for what he was given.
Overall i am surprise that i actually enjoyed this movie as much as i did. Because on paper it is a very generic run of the mill direct to video action movie (it had a limited theatrical run but you get what i mean).
Yet the characters, the actors portring them, they all enhanced the movie and made it interesting to follow. The gun fights were well done and looked great, so that also help elevate it.
This will be another 7 out of 10, a movie i enjoyed, had a good time with, but thats it. It does nothing original or ground breaking, its not one that i see myself rewatching in the near futur, but it brough me entertainement on a beers movie night.
