Blackout

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Apparently, Netflix is willing to enlist ANY movie as long as the producers have enough money to close the deal with it. This is a perfect example of the above. I could barely hit the 20 minute mark before I said to myself: "you know you do have much better things to do with your time right now", so I stopped watching before it got painful. The fighting and shooting scenes in the beginning have absolutely no logic. At times, I really believed the screenplay was written by some kid with a mental handicap. I'm a video content creator and this was impossible to watch. The movie is a TOTAL fail just to conclude.

Other than the suspense about the contents of the suitcase, there is nothing to keep us glued to the movie, especially when the plot is somewhat predictable. The entire story should have been an episode for some other crime-based fiction tv/web series. I think by portraying the character of John Cain, Josh Duhamel is marketing himself as a possible replacement for Bruce Willis. After watching the movie, the following questions keeps coming to our mind. What is the purpose of making this movie? Why all these eminent actors signed up for such silly movie? Why Netflix telecasted it? And ultimately, why did you waste my time?

One can never offer a fair review of anything in less than two minutes but one reviewer placed one star on their viewing of less than two minutes of this "Bourne Want To Be." Well, the film kept my attention for it's entire length even throwing some curve ball surprises along the way. However, be prepared for another film whose hero has superhero recovery power that will challenge most viewers acceptance of the film as anything other than pure fiction and escapism popcorn. But, frankly this film's script writers and director no doubt knew that was what they were offering us in another good guys bad guys or bad guys are good guys or well watch the film to figure it out. Yes, other than an aged Nick Nolte, this film's cast is not red carpet superstars and many of the secondary cast clearly needs some acting classes. The key characters (if you watch more than 2 minutes) will pull you into the thriller as bullets fly all around. If you are looking for a Friday night flick that takes you away from reality and has a surprise or two this isn't a bad option. Now, I won't watch it again but I know how it ends.

Wow, I never knew a movie could be this bad. I was totally shocked in the credits that there was even a director because clearly there wasn't any need for one. This was probably just a bunch of bored people who met one day and decided to pass time by shooting a movie in 24 hours or less. I can't honestly think of any plausible reason why those A/B listers stole 90 minutes of my life. The acting was substandard to say the least, the storyline very disappointing and the sound too disruptive throughout the movie. This is a perfect example of a good idea gone horribly wrong. And that's all it should have remained as, an idea not a movie.

There have been permutations and iterations of the film's storyline which have been executed more skilfully and creatively with much a better cinematic outcome. This one is a far cry. For one, the plot doesn't attract my attention. And it's going around in circles the confined setting of a hospital making it worse. I wanted very much to see the ending to find out the true identity of Cain and what he does for a living but prudence dictated that it wouldn't really matter because this is such a pathetic film. One thing going for it is that some of the fight scenes are well-executed. I didn't know until now that John Duhamel could kick some ass. Ruefully, the action scenes become repetitive after a while. And Nick Nolte isn't in a good place as far as this movie is concerned. He is pathetic, too. His character Ethan is always whining about something in that high-pitched voice of his.

Its awaste of opportunity. The story line is not new, yes, even avengers are not new, but they bring something new into it with good storylines and etc. But this one is just plain dumb. The word "f@&k" is used just to keep a character or lines feel tough on a wrong timing and projected weakly instead. But the worst was, every shooting scene in the straight hallway which none of them managed to put a bullet through him, just threw me off..its plain terrible and not logical...the end scene, the guy just got shot at his arm..he could grab a gun from behind the car once the went out from the car, and shoot them from the back... and again, cuss words are used just to make the script fancy.. a failure attempt not becoz of the stars, but the fight scenes were whack and cinematography too.

Should've been named The Ghost of Nick Nolte. My husband and I thought this was 80's satire. This was the WISH version of a Lifetime movie, but aired during those god awful Christmas in July things.🎄 Some of the fight scenes were ok except when, after hand to hand combat, nobody's hair was even out of place. The shooting scenes though, lol What a joke. All of the shots that were fired and miraculously missed Josh and then he fires twice and kills them. The inconsistencies throughout this whole movie are comical. How many kitchen trays were harmed in this film? That's what I really wanna know.

Blackout, I went into this blind, not in the drunk sense, I didn't read anything about it or any of the reviews. If it wasn't for Josh Duhamel this would have been below average. Having said that, I do believe that Josh Duhamel went into this blind too, maybe not the same blind state as myself. Abbie Cornish spent too much time looking emotionless. Omar Chaparro (Eddie) is obviously a fan of Jordi Mollà's portrayal of Hector Juan Carlos 'Johnny' Tapia in Bad Boys 2. Definitely a B grade movie with a budget to match. Some of the action scenes were done well. The director should have taken some direction from a more experienced director, the writer, a little lazy and relies too much stock standard cliche's. That aside, it is watchable and I would recommend it.