Lights Out
Lights Out
Lights Out: A drifting ex-soldier turns into an underground fighter and now seeks vindication against his oppressor, a crime boss, his hired killers, and corrupt law enforcement officials, through revenge. – Blood and glory in a celda. The friction grows because she is a petty drug dealer and Duffy is a struggling MMA fighter; but he believes that the lower boundaries of a fight with a woman should be determined once and for all and introduces her to unqualified and ruleless aka wrong folks sosaku.
The writers Deneen Melody and Michael M. E. Jones clearly want to make its protagonist a popular character even in drug abuse with an unrivaled strength of personality because it would be more or less politically correct. Many times we have witnessed filmmakers stretch moral vagaries to extreme and illogical consequences. Directed by Christian Sesma writing credits shared between Chad Law, Garry Charles, and Brandon Burrows; it appears though their imagination leads them away from real life into a realm of disaster movies devoid of clips and fast compositions.
In addition to the Legion’s severe betrayals, there are also two-sided undercover police officers, Jamie King and Paul Sloan, Max’s sister and niece who are stealing gangster money by hiding it in the wallets of their violent boyfriends, and the never-ending list of background characters who make the narrative overly cluttered and lose what seems to be an interesting story. It is somewhat entertaining to witness how Frank Grillo, who’s the principal actor in this film, snaps the bones of persons he has xosteres of the body, a picture style linear however, of today’s so called ‘mortal annihilation’ gaming. The chronicling of Sec Afghan mind coupled with interspersed clips showing Afghanistan military and other gun disputes when even the filmmakers themselves seem not to know how to create any stress which will make their fights seem interesting, in actuality, is just mild.
It’s also moderately interesting to witness a bond forming between Duffy and Max. As Lights Out becomes less and less about this, it begins to feel like a convoluted amalgamation of several other action movie sub-genres rather than one cohesive product. By the end of Act 1, it’s not about street fighting anymore; it has evolved into a crime thriller where every single character is going to be put at risk constantly. Duffy’s character is not developed beyond all realism; soon enough, his suffering from catastrophic PTSD seems to be an excuse for unnecessary quick cuts to still more violence.
Scott Adkins also appears as a veteran friend who is simply ready to help Duffy whenever he gets into trouble, and who manages to take centre stage very quickly because he is far too good at what he does. Even if there are times when the creators look like they have no idea what they are doing, Scott Adkins still has the ability to make a poorly directed film into one that has brilliant killing scenes. He has, for some arbitrary reason, not been told anything about his character, which makes it extremely easy for him to command viewers’ attention as a charming and genuine badass fighter.
Regrettably, at that time there is no reason at all to be invested in Lights Out and the televisions may have been switched off already. The further and deeper it extends into the world of crime, the more uninteresting and unexciting the plot and the action become. Mediocre violence cannot save that.
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- Genre: Action, Thriller
- Country: United States
- Director: Christian Sesma
- Cast: Frank Grillo, Mekhi Phifer, Jaime King
