Standoff isn’t quite inspired, but it coasts on unexpected modesty of professionalism.
Standoff
Canada · 2016
Rated R · 1h 20m
Director Adam Alleca
Starring Thomas Jane, Laurence Fishburne, Jim Watson, Ella Ballentine
Genre Thriller, Drama
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A troubled veteran gets a chance at redemption by protecting a girl from an assassin after she witnesses a murder. Holding a shotgun with a single shell, he engages in physical and psychological warfare in a desperate fight for the girl's life.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
It is all very terribly tiresome.
Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen
Unfortunately in the hands of writer-director Adam Alecca, this overly talky, slackly executed game of cat-and-mouse comes off as cheesy rather than chilling.
Village Voice by Pete Vonder Haar
Standoff holds up as a welcome alternative to its more strident brethren.
Writer-director Adam Alleca is better at the keyboard, cooking up chewy tough talk, than behind the camera. The shootout stuff is only passably staged, and the blood-bursts (not his fault…entirely) look digitally added, in some places.
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