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Like most modern movies released in the past 10 years or so, it asks us to leave our suspense of disbelief outside the theater, because the producers of this cheesy comic book had no intention of telling a convincing story. It starts out as a potentially suspenseful revenge movie, but rapidly begins to take off over the top, morphing into a second rate comic book. Very earlier on, the character motivated to revenge begins to turn into what resembles a Batman villain without the costume, but with the mannerisms and personality. Pure graphic comic book entertainment, but unfortunately a low quality, poorly written comic.

The movie is based on Donald Westlake's (Writing under the Pseudonym Richard Stark) classic crime suspense novel SLAYGROUND, featuring the sociopath profession criminal, Parker, from a series of books with that same character. The director of the movie apparently decided he didn't like the books or their main character. In this stupid and clichéd thriller, he uses neither. More or less, the director or producer, whoever made this inept decision, simply took the title of the novel and cooked up a script bearing no relation to the book or any in the series, in order to suite what they believed would be something better. If you're looking for the Parker from the Richard Stark PARKER novels, forget about it. He's been replaced by a small time hood who spews out lines like, "I'm a thief, not a killer." "I'm afraid." "I've never killed anybody." I'm sure if you're a fan of those novels you don't need to hear anymore. I've saved you from wasting your money on this abysmal take on SLAYGROUND. It's a shame, too, because the book would have made a classic movie, but they chose to film something else.