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I am not in the entertainment industry, so I don't know how people like Stallone and even Modine would accept to play in something that is obviously crap. People used to respect these guys! I mean, think about the early Stallone stuff and know this is way worse than that. It's a beyond low budget production, only meant to get more money that they put in by dangling the cast in front of people. This is not a movie so bad it is funny, this is not a movie that someone tried to make interesting and failed, this is clearly a scam. It's criminal and every person watching is a victim. It doesn't have a story! I mean it. There is an old amnesiac guy (Modine) to whom some people give an experimental drug to in order to remember where he hid some money. Stallone appears at the beginning and at the end. Nothing happens. Nothing! There are some really bad scenes where people shoot at each other and then the film ends. The editing, the acting, the filming, everything is just bad! You've been warned.
- hypnotic-79153
- Dec 14, 2018
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The only reason I went to see this is cause I love stallone and I watch every movie he does so I went to see this despite that I knew it's going to be poor from what I heard so far.
this time those reviews were right. the movie was not good but it was not crap either. it was just a C- below average flick which will be forgotten soon.
problem was the flawed scenario mostly and the acting was not the best either but also we saw that stuff like a million times already.
this movie could be passable like 40 years ago. not now.
Even stallone if u exclude last like 10 minutes had not been in the movie for more than like.....another 10 minutes. he had a supporting role. not the lead role.
Anyways.....if by any chance u wanna check this out I recommend strongly only to rent this movie once or to watch it on tv anyhow.
don't waste your time watching this flick in a theater even if u love stallone as stallone don't appear much in the film anyways.
it's a C - from me and that cause of stallone mostly.
- theromanempire-1
- Jan 31, 2019
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A real shame, the worst movie I've seen in 2018....Sly must have needed the money, and he's in the movie at max 50% of it, bad actors, horribly filmed, stupid scenario, what more can I say, he should be ashamed at this stage of his career to participate in junk like that....avoid it and you'd do yourself a favour....
- michelorologio
- Dec 25, 2018
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So at the store last week and along with getting Avengers Endgame on Blu Ray I noticed a pretty new action/thriller with Sylvester Stallone and Matthew Modine called Backtrace. But you know something is wrong when the film is less than a year old and the Blu Ray is already in the bargain bin. The film is just a very boring mess that run 82 minutes (without credits) and still could have been at least 20 minutes shorter.
The plot has a thief (Matthew Modine) and a few other criminals getting shot down by their partners. Modine survives but looses his memory. Seven years later 3 people break him out of a high security facility and put experimental drugs in him. Most of the film is watching Modine have painful flashbacks and looking for bags of money. We get some scenes of Stallone in random cop exposition scenes. But most of the film is just boring scenes of them looking for bags of money. Very little happens in the film. There is two shootout scenes but nothing that exciting. The whole film lacks in every department especially in character development. This is Stallones worst work.
The plot has a thief (Matthew Modine) and a few other criminals getting shot down by their partners. Modine survives but looses his memory. Seven years later 3 people break him out of a high security facility and put experimental drugs in him. Most of the film is watching Modine have painful flashbacks and looking for bags of money. We get some scenes of Stallone in random cop exposition scenes. But most of the film is just boring scenes of them looking for bags of money. Very little happens in the film. There is two shootout scenes but nothing that exciting. The whole film lacks in every department especially in character development. This is Stallones worst work.
- NickGagnon942
- Aug 21, 2019
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What a terrible movie but for Sly Stalone to appear in this muck and other A list actors doing similar belies the, "It's all about the art" argument actors spout. In a world where A list actors are doing TV advertisements, heretofore work that was left for actors who had a bad time making a living from acting, proves to me "It's all about the money" and these A list actors are part of the GAA, Grab All Association, in other words they will do anything for money and to hell with the art.
- FilmMcCool
- Feb 14, 2019
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Formulaic movie that is directed like a TV film with too many close up to hide the lack of sets and pretty bad acting.
It's sad that a decent actor like Mathew Modine got sucked into this garbage, but even he is a deer in the headlights delivering some of the worst lines in history.
The movie is slow to a fault and the direction is truly horrendous. The writing is 6th grade.
You'll be waiting a long time -- nearly a third of the film -- to see Stallone who walks thru his role and man, is he dough face. Too much muscle juice will do that to you.
His delivery is also rather odd. He sounds like he had a stroke! So strange.
Please don't bother with this film. I wasted an hour and half watching this garbage.
It's sad that a decent actor like Mathew Modine got sucked into this garbage, but even he is a deer in the headlights delivering some of the worst lines in history.
The movie is slow to a fault and the direction is truly horrendous. The writing is 6th grade.
You'll be waiting a long time -- nearly a third of the film -- to see Stallone who walks thru his role and man, is he dough face. Too much muscle juice will do that to you.
His delivery is also rather odd. He sounds like he had a stroke! So strange.
Please don't bother with this film. I wasted an hour and half watching this garbage.
Brian Miller has directed quite a few films, but none of them ever scored above 6 on IMDB. Why Stallone would agree to star in a film he directs is beyond me. It's absolutely terrible.
The script is horrible. The cinematography is awful. The acting is stiff. The music is just random notes.
The script is horrible. The cinematography is awful. The acting is stiff. The music is just random notes.
I'm not always one to go by reviews and I'm glad I didn't with this film. I found really enjoyable, its not perfect but interesting. This will be one that I'll be adding to my DVD shelf. Its nice to see sly Stallone back in action again
I get that amateur writers need to start somewhere, but writer Mike Maples needed to partner up with a seasoned screenwriter for his 2nd-ever film - especially when casting big names, instead of putting Stallone and Modine thru this garbage. The premise of this story did have a chance, but the writing killed it, and very disappointingly so, to say the least.
Some scenes where outrageously ridiculous and riddled with plot issues. Even some of the dialogue seemed to be written by a 5th grader. I feel bad for Stallone and Modine, I hope they got paid well, as this will not show well on their resumes.
Then there was that constant overbearing and out of place annoying score... who agreed to that? Had the score been more appropriate (and not so loud and more absent), the film would have showed much better.
The directing was also nothing to write home about; the camera work was OK in most of the film, but the shaky migraines and some pan shots and zooms were annoying, but I guess director Brian Miller could only do so much with the screenplay he was handed. I also feel he could've directed his cast better, and edited/cut many of the flaws this film had.
A very generous 6/10 from me, mainly for the story's premise, and because Stallone and Modine carried this film from being a total flop.
Some scenes where outrageously ridiculous and riddled with plot issues. Even some of the dialogue seemed to be written by a 5th grader. I feel bad for Stallone and Modine, I hope they got paid well, as this will not show well on their resumes.
Then there was that constant overbearing and out of place annoying score... who agreed to that? Had the score been more appropriate (and not so loud and more absent), the film would have showed much better.
The directing was also nothing to write home about; the camera work was OK in most of the film, but the shaky migraines and some pan shots and zooms were annoying, but I guess director Brian Miller could only do so much with the screenplay he was handed. I also feel he could've directed his cast better, and edited/cut many of the flaws this film had.
A very generous 6/10 from me, mainly for the story's premise, and because Stallone and Modine carried this film from being a total flop.
- Top_Dawg_Critic
- Dec 14, 2018
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Brain staibilze vision. You dont have shaky vision if you are normal. No need to shake camera when someone run . I mean so low budget. Even if u are in car and offroading you dont get those shakes like movie presented. Idiotic
Pretty generic plot with no real surprises, nothing we haven't seen many times before and even though the runtime is pretty short, less than 1h30m, nothing very interesting or engaging is really happening most of the time. The bulk of the interesting action happens in the first 10 minutes and then the last 10 minutes the rest simply felt like a padding.
I am surprised Stallone chose to appear in this.
I was expecting more Stallone in this kind of low budget action drama but alas It's more Matthew Modine as a bank robber who lost his memory and there are several people out to find where he hid 20 million dollars. And this was 7 years ago and still Modine is still not remembering. So along comes FBI agent played by Christopher McDonald wanting answers working with cop Stallone. It's a basic story with some surprises.Its not worthy of the one star reviews. But everyone is there own critic, I gave it 5 out of 10 because I thought it was decent but not great. Stallones latest since creed 2. Funny because a few years ago he announced retirement. Ahem a final Rambo movie? Expendables 4? Not this old dog. I expect Stallone will be in a few more movies maybe till he's 100 . Rocky at the retirement home.Teaching boxing ? Just a thought.
- lopezpatricia-06139
- Apr 13, 2021
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If you don't have anything else to do this may be an option. Gunshot scenes were weird, guys missing dozens of shots, pretty generic.
What was that Sykes character all about?There were few scenes with him and most of them are irrelevant or without depth. Actually if I look to all the other characters, there's no depth, nothing. Oh, and the end of the movie was also pretty generic, I've seen some people that said the ending was good, really??
- xbrunerohd
- Dec 18, 2018
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- BandSAboutMovies
- Aug 29, 2019
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- Leofwine_draca
- Jan 14, 2020
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I'm not sure why people are giving this above average movie the negative reviews. This movie grabbed my attention from the start. The acting by the top level actors is great. This movie was not a movie that was advertised well. Luckily I stumbled upon this gem of a movie. I watched this movie twice. I plan on watching it again tomorrow morning. Sylvester. Stallone is the best part of this movie by leaps and bounds Matthew Modine's performance is underrated. This is Matthew's second best performance in my opinion, second to. Vision Quest. I would love to see more roles like this for both of the lead characters. Give this movie a chance.
I watched it without looking it up on here. I enjoyed it. I came here to look at trivia for the movie and am shocked at everyone hating it. I did think there were small issues (shooting too many times before reloading, people wearing vests killed, etc), but I found the plot enjoyed and the acting good. I've liked Matthew Modine since Full Metal Jacket.
- jamesdwatsonsr
- Jun 28, 2019
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I see there isn't a 'goofs' section for this movie - because there are too many to list maybe? And, please, I know mandatory retirement is not a requirement in most professions in the USA, but a 72-year-old cop (Stallone)? Do me a favour.
- GladtobeGrey
- Jan 23, 2020
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After watching this, all that I can advise you to do, is to watch one of the Good Police Programmes, that you get on your T.V. Giving a 2 star rating, is being fairly generous. The Acting, if you can call it that, especially by Stallone, was that "Wooden", you may as well used a Ventriloguist's Dummy. This type of acting, you may expect from, a very bad drama student, but for Major Stars, not acceptable in any way. If you had to choose, between a walk in the rain, or this movie, "Take the walk in the rain".
- stott-53056
- Dec 14, 2018
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Watched this as I thought big stars can't be all that bad , well I was wrong , terrible plot , bad cardboard acting and that was from everyone in this film , don't waste your time and money on this one .
- horton-78367
- Jan 5, 2019
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