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DVD Swelter
 Run time: 83 min Rating: 4.6 Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller Director: Keith Parmer Writers: Keith Parmer Stars: Mindy Robinson, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Freya Tingley |
| Storyline In the vein of the brutal heist drama Reservoir Dogs, the modern crime thriller A History of Violence, and the classic western High Plains Drifter, SWELTER is a violent story of greed and retribution. |
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| Plot Keywords: one word title | |
| Details: Country: USA Release Date: 22 May 2014 (Portugal) |
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| Box Office Budget: $8,000,000 (estimated) |
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Having seen the trailer, I gave this film a shot. In the beginning, I wasn't disappointed. The first few scenes were quite good, obviously imitating the cool atmosphere of films by Tarantino and Rodriguez. This lasted only for the first 10 minutes though.
The rest of the film dragged on to include family drama, ridiculous array of stand-offs and completely illogical character decisions. The actors could have probably managed a more believable performance, since the cast was decent, but they had nothing to work with. The initially cool and skilled outlaws break down into randomly psychotic, calm, honourable, greedy, sadistic or thoughtful, at the drop of a hat, from one scene to another.
I cannot recommend this film. It is a forgettable mess, which after the first few scenes, didn't even seem to try to be anything else.
here is my advice to all the big actors who care only about money not their careers to do a low level project once this stamps gets on you it never goes off take Steven Seagal for example a great action hero of our times is doing straight to home video films since last decade,Christian Slater also joined the list now what was Alfred Molina and Jean Claude Van Damme doing here was out of my head these two are the most amazing actors ever appeared on big screen even if they did this for friendship to the director Kieth Palmer or whatever they need to be extremely careful in future.
the plot:the story is a rehash of old revenge,betrayal & good vs evil films,whats just happens here is that few guys escape from a prison to find one man who escaped with the cash after the robbery they go to a town where a tough sheriff looks for bad guys.
the rest of the film is usual nice people getting in crossfire along with a damsel in distress it gets boring in a few minutes to be honest here people expect too much from the cast not the story in these type of mix genre films i thought JCVD would do some high octane action but i was disappointed he got wasted here.
Overall watch Swelter 2014 at your own risk there are some funny moments available but that is not worth the money my rating is 3/10.
The good: The cinematography is really nice (except for a view hiccups).
The bad: Jean-Claude Van Damme does not so bad as usual (isn't much in the movie)
The ugly: Characters and story The whole movie doesn't make any sense – not even a little bit. I don't wanna spoil for the brave that sit trough the movie – but its bad, really bad.
In this movie you will see characters (yes I mean plural) that have no soul, are cliché, unbelievable and really stupid.
And if I say stupid I really mean it – almost nobody of the main characters would live that long if they where like this forever (but the movie didn't mention a chemical plant accident where everybody got insane – so …)
For me it's always surprising to see that really bad scipts are getting money (and we talk about millions) – where clearly no money can't be made. OK yes Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez could make this film work (but hey they would cast the right actors and give them some crazy lines to work with)
I had no interest in the story or the narrative. Its a story that's been done to death. Money goes missing, a rag tag team of criminals go to a dusty old town where is some money stored from a heist that went wrong.
And one of the team from the heist is now a lawman, but hey, he's hiding the money, and the rest of the team want their share.
The team consist of the regular crew.
The boss, who's calm and collective.
The one who's a bit quiet, but could go off at any minute.
The obligatory famous person in a small role.
And the complete nutter.
The only reason why I saw this film was purely for Van Damme, as I've been a fan of his since 1989, and this has to be the poorest thing he's ever been in.
And the fact of the matter is that he had no need to be in this, as his role consists of sitting in a bar, having a few drinks, walking in slow motion, and uttering lines from an inane script.
Lenny James tries hard, but he is bogged down by stereotypes, crass narrative, and an overall sense of déjà Vu.
All in all, its a very boring affair, and a fitting line from 'Blackadder Goes Forth', sums up the whole movie.
'It started off badly, goes downhill in the middle, and the less said about the end, the better'