Gritty but kind of pointless bloodfest concerning a bunch of thugs who apparently rip off some drug dealers, and are then dealt the consequences one by one in an abandoned warehouse building.
The acting is pretty bad and the lighting is awful, much of the time it's difficult to discern what's happening. But all of that could be forgiven if it wasn't so deliberately overblown - the intensity and editing tricks belong to a bigger movie. What was needed was an actual plot, enabled by a tighter script in which some interesting characters could emerge, to offset the budget limitations. Drama and suspense doesn't require a Hollywood budget, and there were opportunities for the cast to interact and create something interesting and suspenseful, but the time and effort was traded instead for tricky editing and senseless, bloody beatings.
Soap actor Paul Logan stars as a pony-tailed assassin who enjoys killing a little too much and gradually loses all his clothes, whilst the B-movie Elisabeth Shue clone (Kim Little) plays a supposedly spoiled rich girl hanging with the tribe for kicks, getting more than she bargained when the adults show up to teach the kids a lesson.
I really appreciate low-budget filmmaking, but this is effortless tripe, and were it not for a few well-framed and photographed shots, it would almost be camcorder home video standard. Astonishingly, it spawned a sequel which is just too tragic to contemplate.
The acting is pretty bad and the lighting is awful, much of the time it's difficult to discern what's happening. But all of that could be forgiven if it wasn't so deliberately overblown - the intensity and editing tricks belong to a bigger movie. What was needed was an actual plot, enabled by a tighter script in which some interesting characters could emerge, to offset the budget limitations. Drama and suspense doesn't require a Hollywood budget, and there were opportunities for the cast to interact and create something interesting and suspenseful, but the time and effort was traded instead for tricky editing and senseless, bloody beatings.
Soap actor Paul Logan stars as a pony-tailed assassin who enjoys killing a little too much and gradually loses all his clothes, whilst the B-movie Elisabeth Shue clone (Kim Little) plays a supposedly spoiled rich girl hanging with the tribe for kicks, getting more than she bargained when the adults show up to teach the kids a lesson.
I really appreciate low-budget filmmaking, but this is effortless tripe, and were it not for a few well-framed and photographed shots, it would almost be camcorder home video standard. Astonishingly, it spawned a sequel which is just too tragic to contemplate.