Acts of Violence [2018] Full HD Movie Free Download
The film is about three brothers and a no-nonsense cop trying to rescue
the kidnapped fiancee of one of the brothers from the clutches of a ruthless
crime lord. Directed by Brett Donowho ("Salvation"), the movie also
stars Cole Hauser, Sophia Bush, Shawn Ashmore and Mike Epps.
In vigilante
fantasy “Acts of Violence,” it doesn’t matter how many of the titular acts
occur — or how many people get killed, “bad” and “good” — so long as the goal
is righteous, not to mention self-righteous. If a dozen or two folks die en
route to a kidnap victim being rescued, well, that’s just the price that
family, loyalty and courage required.
These stories are
all true. All names and details have been changed. People have told their
stories in the hope that they will help others who are being abused. After an opening childhood flashback that doesn’t
make a lot of sense later on, plus a brief combat montage, we meet Army vet
Deklan MacGregor (Cole Hauser) as he’s simultaneously asking for and angrily refusing help from a VA
counselor. (The movie sees no contradiction in this, or in his similar attitude
toward police later on.) He’s been plagued by anxiety and insomnia since
leaving the service, his resulting reclusiveness handled with care by younger
brothers Brandon (Shawn Ashmore) and Roman (Ashton Holmes). But it’s viewed as
more of a deliberate insult by Roman’s fiancée Mia (Melissa
Bolona), who appears a bit trigger-tempered herself.
Most of
these stories are from women in heterosexual relationships, but some are from
women in lesbian relationships, and some are from men in heterosexual
relationships.
There are
stories from women with disabilities and from young people under 25.
However,
what pushes “Acts of Violence” from the merely stupid to the decidedly unsavory
is the way in which it drags in serious issues to serve as window dressing for
the garbage at hand. Near the beginning of the film, for example, we see Deklan
blowing up at an ineffectual VA stooge for being incapable of offering any help
for his emotional problems and rage issues other than more medication. This is
an issue of real concern to many people but as it turns out, the film has no
use for it other than to serve as a clumsy explanation for Deklan’s abilities
as a one-man killing machine. (Even more distastefully, once all the ensuing
slaughter has concluded, we get a final shot of him clearly feeling a lot
better, suggesting that bloodshed is the only real cure for PTSD.) Human
trafficking is another important and troubling issue, but the film uses it as
little more than a gimmick to justify the violence rather than to really
examine it at any length. Furthermore, it is a little difficult to take
seriously a story dealing with the horrors of the exploitation of women that
itself takes the time for a long strip club sequence featuring an extended
three-woman lap dance.
That sort of ratio might seem utterly crazy in
the real world, but it’s routine in the kind of boilerplate modern action movie
that director Brett Donowho’s feature in many way typifies. There’s no question here
that taking the law into his own hands is simply what a real man’s gotta do.
And there’s no more novelty in that reactionary message anymore than there is
in rest of this slick and well-paced if uninspired time-filler, which Lionsgate
is giving a limited theatrical launch simultaneous with its on-demand release.
The movie was filmed here over the course of a few weeks last spring. If
you're only interested in seeing our hometown on the big screen, the number of
times you'll yell out "Hey, that's Cleveland!" (which, by the way, is
exactly what I did while seeing "Fun Size" and "Alex
Cross") is few and far between.
Don Everly of the Everly Brothers takes on singing
solo to the delight of other musicians in the back as he sings the lyrics to
"Bye Bye Love" during a Music Masters tribute to the duo brothers at
Playhouse Square Oct. 25, 2014, sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Museum.
The trailer shows the skyline a couple times, as well as a fight between
Willis and a bad guy on the roof of the old Cleveland central police station at
E.
PRODUCTION: A Lionsgate
Premiere release of a Liongate Premiere, Grindstone Entertainment Group and
Emmett Furla Oasis Films presentation of an EFO Films production in association
with Colecar Prods. and Tri-Fold Pictures. Producers: Randall Emmett, George
Furla, Anthony Callie, Mark Stewart. Executive producers: Ted Fox, Vance Owen,
Brandon K. Hogan, Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb, Harvey Winterstern, Arianne
Fraser, Delphine Perrier, Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones, Martin Wiley.
Co-producers: Tim Sullivan, Alana Crow.
At the beginning of this review, I compared
“Acts of Violence” to the garbage on which Charles Bronson frittered away the
latter part of his career—things like “The Evil That Men Do,” “Murphy’s Law”
and the lesser “Death Wish” sequels. In hindsight, perhaps that comparison
isn’t fair because as bad as those movies were, Bronson at least put in some
effort, which is more than one can say for Bruce Willis here. Yes, this is
another one of those anonymous action movies that he has been specializing in
as of late—the kind that turn up in a couple of theaters and on VOD with
virtually no advance word and featuring listless performances by him that,
based on the available evidence, were apparently shot in no more than four or
five days, most of them utilizing the same office set. Why he would want to
squander his still-considerable talent and screen presence on something as
low-rent as this is beyond me—as it could not have been for the money, my only
guess is that he wanted to squeeze in a few quick rounds before doing the
“Death Wish” remake. At one point, in what proves to be the only remotely
realistic moment on display, his character remarks “I’m tired of this”—by the
time “Acts of Violence” reaches its conclusion, any still left watching it will
doubtlessly feel the same way.
CREW: Director: Brett
Donowho. Screenplay: Nicolas Aaron Mezzanatto. Camera (color, widescreen, HD):
Edd Lukas. Editors: Frederick Wardell, Ryan Eaton. Music: James T. Sale. The MacGregors swiftly become aware of her
plight, if not her location. Deklan immediately turns squad commander, arming his
siblings (Brandon is also an ex-soldier) for a raid on a den where they find
plenty of drugs, thugs and captive women but no Mia. This attempted rescue
attracts the attention of Cleveland Police Detectives Avery (Bruce Willis) and Baker (Sophia
Bush), who’ve long been trying to nail Max for various suspected crimes.
Nonetheless, Deklan decides the brothers must continue to operate alone,
expecting the cops will be ineffectual — even before anyone (including Avery)
discovers Max is indeed being protected as a major informer by the FBI,
hobbling local police efforts.
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