46/10
Recipe for failure
Synopsis
During the final fight with Hangman after Leon failed to pull the pin on the grenade (the safety lever is clearly still on). It wouldn’t have gone off, he would have been better off hitting him with it. Leon: What’s up, Toots? Written and performed by the same person?
Well, he can’t act
It’s very rare that someone in this business can do more than one job. Here we have the writer who also plays the main character. At least not in this movie. And the story was all over the place and crappy, so clearly he can’t write either.
We don’t do that
And that seems to be a common theme when people try to do too much in show business. But the movie, well, it’s not good. A black man and his son go camping in the Appalachians? Stop.
But then we meet the local racists
First of all, camping is not one of our favorite things to do. Second, we know not to go out to racism, in this place. The awkward connection at the beginning should have told me to turn this movie off. Sigh.
Then there’s that executioner
It’s been done to death. It’s over. It was more of an afterthought. If they had focused more on that and the cult, and removed the racism, which added nothing, then maybe this could have been a 3 star instead of a 1.