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This film is basically "Robocop" meets "Death Wish", with less satire than the former and more humor than the latter. And it's a B movie blast. An unrelenting pace, fantastic fight choreography that doesn't skimp on the gleeful blood and gore, and never not fun or interesting to look at.

Yeah some of the one-liner dialogue as delivered by Logan Marshall-Green feels a bit forced and the plot isn't exactly clever or unique, but damn it, it all works and it makes it's own beautiful alchemy out of a bunch of borrowed parts. This is cheap genre filmmaking done damn right.

This movie is somehow slightly worse than the sum of its parts. There is a genuine sense of direction and theme to this film, even if it doesn't really go anywhere all that interesting. The plain story belies the surprisingly adept filmmaking and strong central performances. The two leads have really believable chemistry. The story just isn't up to snuff with the rest of the film and the beast metaphors are applied way too thickly for something so obvious.

This is one of those "A Simple Plan" type scenarios where an accident escalates into a heinous catastrophe over the course of a bunch of small steps. It's just not nearly funny or clever enough. It all feels very forced and amateurish and is exhausting by the end.