Bullet (2014) 4/10

Starring : Danny Trejo, Jonathan Banks, Julia Dietze
Director : Nick Lyon
Running Time : 88 mins

Frank Marasco (Trejo) is an unconventional cop who arrests the head of a notorious gang of crooks and has him sentenced for execution. In an act of revenge, the sons of the crook kidnap Frank’s grandson and blackmail him into recanting his testimony so that the crook can walk free, but Frank won’t take the threats lying down.

The acting is so bad in this – there’s almost a pause between each line as if the actors have missed their cue. And what a bunch of arseholes those women in the playground were – expecting Trejo to go and help some girl being attacked and then they don’t even keep an eye on his grandson! The directing is over the top at times, and at other times it is just plain lazy, as if the director didn’t want to shoot some scenes but had to in order to make the story work. Fans of Trejo may enjoy this, but the majority will think he should stick to comic action movies like Machete where we aren’t expected to take him seriously.

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