Set in Mexico, that is a couple of British former special-ops warrior as soon as often called Nero (martial-arts film veteran Scott Adkins) endeavouring to avoid wasting his kidnapped adolescent son (Matthew Garbacz). With its one-word past-participle title, it’s as if the makers weren’t even making an attempt to cover that that is principally a knock-off of Taken, with a lot lower-wattage stars and cheaper areas.
That mentioned, there’s a little bit of satirical wit within the dialogue, notably from Mario Van Peebles because the villainous – however not fully evil – mastermind behind the kidnapping. He performs Mexican mid-level cartel prime canine Mzamo, in cahoots with Nero’s slimeball former boss, Donovan (Steven Elder), who has snatched Nero’s child to be able to power him to kill every part that strikes on a pre-plotted itinerary in order that Mzamo can wipe out his rival carteliers. He joshes to Donovan that when the gringos up north ship their white males over the border, they’re not sending their greatest, solely rapists and murderers – a sly inversion on Donald Trump’s notorious candidacy announcement.
However except for the amusing dings, the film is your commonplace subject, computer-game narrative: we observe alongside because the protagonist, filmed like a first-person shooter due to the digicam Mzamo has insisted Nero put on all through, kills henchman after henchman after which a sequence of bosses earlier than making it to the massive battle finale at a beachside mansion. All that’s lacking are video artefacts, buffering pauses imposed by poor web service and grammatically challenged feedback scrolling alongside on the facet.
Adkins is not any Liam Neeson, however he’s very swish in movement and credibly pugilistic within the hand-to-hand struggle scenes – and that’s actually the one factor that issues in the long run for the supposed viewers.