Backtrace

If Sly wasn't in this movie, it would have 1 star. If you're a fan of shoot-outs, that's basically all it is, coupled with bad acting and a story line that makes little linear sense. Yes, Stallone movies are mostly built on action and pizazz but the writing in this is just SO BAD. Entertaining, on a very small scale.

Where to begin with Backtrace. Well, I will save you the time of reading this review, by saying that this film is terrible. Here is the reason why. I'll start with the director Brian A. Miller, he has previously directed films like Vice and The Prince, he is a director who makes action films, but makes the action scenes incoherent, Miller doesn't understand how to construct an action scene which is both entertaining and easy to follow at the same time, he seems to shake the camera excessively and thinks that makes the action more impactful. The acting is awful, there is not one performance which is truly that good in this film, the acting is wooden and stale but the reason for that is because the writing is that good either. The writing is terrible, there is no such thing as character development in this film, the characters don't grow or change in anyway and there is nothing interesting about them. Also, Sylvester Stallone is in this film and like Escape Plan II, he does very little, until the end of the film. Also, there are some obvious narrative twists, which you'll see from the beginning of the film. This film is dreadful and there are loads more reasons, but I think that I would max out the amount characters and need even more than to discuss every issue in this film. Like I said at the beginning, avoid this film, I watched it so you don't have too.