Outlawed

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I love a good shootout. The action was on point. Im truly impressed with what can be achieved with no budget.

Worst movie ever made. And not in the so bad it's amusingly good kind of way, this is just horrible. From start to end it is horrible. The acting is horrendous, the script is terrible, the premise is junk, everything about this movie is bad. Bad bad bad bad. Bad.

This film is downright awful for two unforgivable reasons. The first is that the main love interest characters' names are "Jake and Jade". Which throws you off at the very beginning when they randomly travel to the past & you're trying to figure out who these two kids are and their names sound exactly alike. The second is Jake's downfall which is so pathetic it's literally unbelievable. SPOILER it starts off with Jake dropping out of the special forces. As he arrives back at his hotel he finds his fiance (not Jade) having sex with some guy in the room next to theirs - mind you, she gets mad at him for catching her in the act. He walks off with his tail between his legs and decides to head to the casino and get some hookers. He proceeds to play craps when he arrives, goes all in after he won a ton of money, and loses it all. Then he heads to the bar where he chats up one of the hookers, convinces her to go to the hotel with her hooker friends. What starts off as one would assume would be a massive drug and alcohol induced orgy, instead has Jake getting so hammered he walks away from all of the fun going on in the bedroom, and passes out naked on the bathroom floor. The hookers briefly glance and him lying there, get up, empty his pockets, and walk out. We then find Jake walking down an alley, drinking a beer, when he sees an attempted rape about to happen. He tries to stop it when a mob appears out of nowhere and beat the crap out of him (Remember this guy was a Sgt in the Special Forces ~12 hours prior). Jake goes and has a seat on the gutter when it begins to rain and a passerby gives him change because they think he's homeless ... fast forward 6 months when Jade searches for Jake so he can do her a favor. When she finds him - low and behold he is literally a bum in a sleeping back on the side of the road ... You can't make this stuff up

Considering the budget of the film they've achieve more than expected with great effects and solid action through-out. Action packed from start to end.

Never felt the need to leave a review on IMDB but after watching this I felt compelled to save others from suffering the same agony I just endured. Obviously it's a low budget production but whatever they spent the little funds they had on, it certainly wasn't on the script or talent. I've seen school plays that have been better performed. The storyline was passable for the action genre just really, really badly implemented. Please do yourself a favour and don't waste 2 hours of your life watching this.

Whilst it's not going to win any Oscars for originality - Outlawed had some genuinely interesting and engaging scenes and the action/stunt work was top notch. From what I've read the filmmakers self funded the film and received no backing from studios or production companies which is incredible considering the overall scale of the production - shoots outs, explosions, skydiving etc. At times the film does feel quite patchy but the story homages classic cheesy action films of the 80s/90s with an evil corrupt politician bad guy, hostage standoffs and drug deals gone wrong. The performances are also fairly strong with Collins playing the heroic Jake - another homage to the action heroes of the 90s. Also worth noting the music/score is absolutely fantastic! Whilst the film isn't for everyone, those who are fans of low budget action films will definitely enjoy and it's worth seeing just based on the fact it was made with very little/no money.

Man rides towards towards a government building on a motorbike in broad daylight and shoots a handgun towards 4 heavily armed guards with automatic weapons.... and survives. Enough said about this movie. Not a bad montage leading up to the action, so there's your one star Adam Collins (story/director/main actor)

There seem to be a lot of unfairly negative reviews about this independently made, low-budget British film. Watch this film and just consider the ambition on show. Shot in a cinematic 2.35 : 1 ratio, this is a confident and impressive directing/producing/writing debut from the inexperienced team of Adam Collins (also lead actor) and Luke Radford (also editor). It can stand proudly alongside the work of much more experienced filmmakers like Ross Boyask and Paul Tanter. There's great production values, not least in the use of a genuine historic city council building, and the film is (in my view) never dull. It's clearly a passion project and certainly a vanity project too. Some of the situations Collins puts himself in are almost certainly wish-fulfillment. Not just the former real life Royal Marines Commando's accomplished action scenes, but the "sexy" scenes too - including an unintentionally amusing "lads mag"-style love scene. A touchstone for the film is HARD TO KILL starring Steven Seagal. Strongly reminiscent scenes book-end the film and there are references throughout, but it's a very different film. I personally loved these touches as much as any of the other aspects of the production. If you're a fan of action films you'll have a lot of fun with this, but expect a slightly different ride to that indicated by the poster. There's a lot of drama in here too. It's not COMMANDO. This is one of the films I've most enjoyed seeing recently and I'm excited to see it again and whatever Collins brings us next. Well done to all involved.

It goes like this: imagine a bunch of your buddies, who never spent a day in the military, or in combat decide to write a movie about "British Special Operations." Have them write a movie with all the cliches like "don't call me sir, I work for a living." Then add every "operator" flagging his teammates as they fire and maneuver. Then make sure that everyone is firing from the hip, and all of their M4s have full auto select fire. Then put an eagle globe and anchor (USMC emblem) on an SAS uniform. But wait....there's more, imagine a service where a Sgt can write and submit his own discharge papers, and voila, he's out! I wish I would have written this movie's discharge papers, but without any viola, I am out.