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Village Voice by Pete Vonder Haar
Standoff holds up as a welcome alternative to its more strident brethren.
Standoff
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- Canada
- 2016
- · 80m
Director
Adam Alleca
Cast
Thomas Jane,
Laurence Fishburne,
Jim Watson,
Ella Ballentine,
Joanna Douglas,
Ted Atherton
Genre
Thriller,
Drama
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.
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What are critics saying?
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Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen
Standoff isn’t quite inspired, but it coasts on unexpected modesty of professionalism.
38
Movie Nation by Roger Moore
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.
30
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.
25
RogerEbert.com by Glenn Kenny
It is all very terribly tiresome.
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