Bushwick

This film tells the story of a young woman and a military veteran, who are stranded in a city where insurgent forces heavily attack, with the aim of succession from the USA.

"Bushwick is surprisingly good considering it is a low budget film. The plot is good, there is a lot of action and thrill throughout the film. It wastes no time in introducing the intense gunfights int he city, making New York like a war zone. The camera work is great, as there are a lot of long continuous shots of fighting and escaping scenes which I am sure are challenging to stage. The main characters are likable, and I just really hope that they can get out of the highly dangerous situation. I enjoyed watching "Bushwick", I thought it was surprisingly thrilling and captivating.

Let's be honest here, this movie will never win an Oscar and neither will the two actors, the plot is ridiculous, the acting poor and you find it hard to make out what the lead male is saying half the time.

All that said, it actually works like a video game with the viewer right there in the middle of the action and you actually start liking and wanting the two main players to succeed in their task - its pretty intense and the action never stops and surprisingly, I actually started to enjoy the movie - one of the more enjoyable movies I have seen recently. I would rate more of a 7.5/10 but will go for the higher 8 on the IMDb rating system because I did enjoy it, as stupid as it is!

The Steadicam work alone is enough to want to watch this film. The way it is shot and the content is amazing. I had no expectations going into this and was blown away.

As for the story, if you think something like this is purely fiction, history says different.

Two people get stuck in a city-wide gun fight.

The camera trails about six feet behind the main characters as they scamper from one besieged house to another. The action is pretty intense! Passers by and pedestrians in the back ground get gunned down or embroiled in their own personal dramas.

This is not an expensive film and its lack of budget is both its strength and weakness. It has a gritty feel to it and there is no big Hollywood star waiting to rip his shirt off and everything has a degree of realism about it.

But some of the action scenes do suffer from a lack of funds. Soldiers wait patently for stuntmen to do their thing before spurring into action, or beat at invisible flames that the CGI team didn't get time to add.

This feels very much like a computer game. There is not a whole lot for the characters to do except run and dodge and shoot, but the film is kept under the magic 90 minute mark so that was ok.

They try to add some meat to the characters in a couple of quite dull dialogue scenes that didn't really work. I only know the characters from their backsides so I only need to know them about as intimately as I know third storm trooper from the right.

The final sequence falls apart a bit as the sets are just too small for the extras to comfortably fight over.

This is a great, cheap little run-and-gun action movie. Quite gritty and thrilling.

Dave Bautista steps down from the blockbusters to lead this tense thriller about a country torn apart and a new civil war beginning.

The opening scene showed such promise, I was gripped immediately but within 15-20 minutes my hopes were dashed.

I couldn't get over how poor everything looked, considering Bautista is on the upswing of his career I expected him to be more careful with his roles. The sfx are oddly weak and the camera work is some of the shoddiest I've ever seen considering the films budget. Seriously, at one point I think the camera goes up Daves ass while following him.

Though the concept is a bit far fetched I think considering the current state of the US at time of writing this or something similar is more realistic than most want to admit.

Sadly as mentioned the film falls apart early and it descended into yet another action flick with little going for it.

Bautista has done nothing to silence his critics here as he puts in arguably his worst performance yet.

This film is the very definition of potential squandered, it should have been SO much better.

The Good:

Fantastic opening sequence

The Bad:

Very poorly shot

Shoddy sfx

Soundtrack doesn't fit

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Such a far fetched plot being believable at this time is genuinely scary

I couldn't take the Jewish gang seriously