Director: Sandra Sciberras
Year: 2026
Country: Australia
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Action
Plot:
Living alone on her ranch, a former Special Forces agent finds herself targeted by a squad of enemies who end up kidnapping her daughter. Looking to save her from the series of thugs arriving to settle the score against her for their boss, a ruthless warlord with a vendetta against her, she heads out to recruit the elite team of friends left to help her save her daughter and stop them.
Review:
Overall, this was a decent enough genre effort. The main factor within here is the immensely likable chase storyline that manages to offer up some worthwhile motivations for the resulting course of the film. Seeing the initial charge against the family and trying to take her out with the team using the surroundings and super-long-range weaponry around the outskirts of the property, opting more for sniper combat than straightforward gunfights, is a great way to go about this. These shootouts are quite effective at utilizing the stillness of the situation, waiting around for someone to make a mistake and expose themself instead of just wildly firing automatic rifles at each other or acrobatic handgun battles, leaving everything feeling different enough as they opt for more of a stalking series of confrontations.
These confrontations are in service of a solid enough, if overall frustrating, aspect where the majority of the encounters are built around the stupidity of the team trying to protect her daughter rather than anything else. With the team repeatedly showed to have a sloppy and unprofessional means of coverage, where they each get popped while making a slew of stupid decisions to get killed off. Mainly because the entire operation on the house has so few operatives, it relies more on taking out the protectors more than anything, so that the whole thing reads with the kind of plot armor that ends this one on a wholly predictable manner, despite this intriguing setup. Combined with the few bits of low-budget limitations coming to pass that give this one away, there are some issues here keeping this down.
Overview: ***.5/5
An overall solid enough low-budget action effort, there’s enough to like here that it’s not a complete waste, as several of the issues here do come off more detrimental than expected. Those with an appreciation for this style or approach will have a lot to like here, while most others turned off by these issues will want to heed caution.
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