DVD Dark Power

My suspicions about this movie were initially aroused when the opening credits listed two different directors, and within 15 minutes my skepticism had proved to be right on the money.

The acting is terrible, the filmmaking and script is comedically clichéd and bad, the continuity errors are so blatant you'd have to wonder whether they were inserted on purpose.

Think I'm being unfair? Just consider the following: A terribly acted security guard character is ham-fistedly inserted into the plot, and the actor plays the role as if he's in a comedy, before finally being killed about 5 minutes later (at which point all of the ridiculous and badly acted build up with the security guard character becomes totally redundant to the film – he literally didn't even need to feature in this film.) The mayor and the security guard are murdered by an assassin who is standing an holding his rifle at his shoulder, but not longer after the assassination, during the crime scene examination we are told that the assassin was resting his rifle on a stairway banister (and the mark that supposedly tips the police expert off to the shooter's position is literally a non-descript random scratch on a wooden stair railing).

Right before the mayor is shot the power goes out, and we are told by the mayor that the power has gone out because of the storm – then immediately after killing the mayor, the assassin walks out into a perfectly clear night, where the power is obviously still on for the entire city (this imaginary storm is then mentioned again in the script about 5 mins later).

A character tells us that the cell phone reception in city hall is almost non-existent due to the thickness of the walls just minutes after another character makes a cell phone call from inside city hall to alert authorities to the assassination of the mayor.

The news of the mayor's assassination is announced by a newsreader who looks like a 16 year old retail sales assistant (on a TV that was literally volume-less just seconds before she comes on), in a tone that wold make her an ideal candidate for George Romero's next zombie flick – and she literally says the following: "This just in, Mayor Stan Wood has been shot, in an apparent assassination attempt at city hall. Preliminary reports indicate that the wounds were fatal." (obviously if the wounds were fatal then this wasn't an apparent assassination ATTEMPT.

I could go on, and on, and on, but all of this takes place in literally the first 20 minutes of this woeful b-grade film, so I'll spare you the rest.

I am watching this movie thinking great start some intrigue we have a mayor under pressure and he gets whacked. Suddenly the body counts start racking up as fast as in Hot Shots part deux.

The characters are 1 dimensional, you never really care for them, Agent Driver is meant to be the hottie who loves kicking butt and taking names, how she goes to being vulnerable and a cheerleader of archer to being assigned a case by Brazilian CIA is well mind boggling, Archer is a broody detective, with a love for a hooker and you never really get to understand his drive, his mother is in bed apparently terribly sick yet looking more glamorous than the female lead.

Nothing ties together, the two agents have no real chemistry so how they end up hooking up is beyond me, the Illuminati angle is a stretch at best as suddenly the protagonist loses his grapefruits and looks pathetic at the end as he is finished on a cheap cars windscreen, all you keep thinking is get out of the way that car is not quick enough! He could have lit a cigarette got half way through and still seen the car coming. So you never empathize with him or care. Archer mysteriously disappears with just an email seeing he's out and the shoot out at the end comes from no where and by a coastline.

From my review you're probably thinking is not coherent well my friends that is because the film isn't. This film was made by a director clearly who has some sanity and knowledge of how to tell a story, but comes across as susceptible to cocaine psychosis with delusions of epic grandeur! Couple of hours of my life i will never get back watch Max Payne instead!