Cálculo Mortal

Tillie (India Eisley) is a troubled girl on Nantucket Island. Her parents had recently been killed in a plane crash. She falls for cab driver Niko (K.J. Apa). The problem is his murderous brother Marco (Scott Adkins). Agent Cantrell (James Remar) is on the case.

Niko is a problematic character. K.J. plays him like a nice guy. I buy his inner conflict with his brother but he tries to be the good guy. This apparently is inspired by the Boston Marathon bombers. The problem is that this movie is nowhere near sophisticated enough to do justice to the complexity of human relationships. There are awkward turns here with Niko. I don't buy his character even without the inspiration.

What makes a good thriller? Action. Danger. Speed. Bad guys. Glorious struggle for life and death. Little to none of that do we get to see. How the heck do they dare title this movie as a thriller, when I only got thrilled when I saw the final end credits running?

The bad: Scott Adkins is a great B-movie actor. HE (and he alone) was the reason I started watching this movie, but to my disappointment I get to see 2 nobodies act in the leading roles and Scott Adkins only performing in a smaller suporting role.

Please, give us some ACTION in a thriller. Please, give us some suspenseful plots. And please do give us some solid action stars in the leading roles.

Andre......you've lost another submarine? The main problem with " Altar Rock" seems to be everyone wants to be somewhere else. Like doing "Auntie Mame" on Zoom with the Sconset Actors Colony or " Yentl" at the Auschwitz Arts Festival in Ozwiecim. I liked this film for everything it wasn't but strives to be. Under dog films work for me, even without Season Hubley in the cast.

ALTAR ROCK, renamed DEAD RECKONING to make it more commercial, is a very boring drama/thriller supposedly based on the Boston Marathon bombings. It plays out like a family drama for the most part with a few action bits added to the mix. The director did ROMEO MUST DIE and DOOM all those years ago and appears to have lost the basics of film-making in the interim period. Cast-wise, we're in for a wooden time with the exception of Scott Adkins, making the most of his small bad guy role.

Terribly boring and one of the worst casts I've ever scene, with the exception of kj apa and Scott Adkins. No one could string a sentence together that sounded real. Especially the aunt and her niece who both sounded like they were reading of a script with no emotion or realism whatsoever.