Vigilante
Diaries (2016/Anchor Bay Blu-ray)
Picture:
B Sound: C+ Extras: C Film C+
After
seven months, the urban legend known only as the 'Vigilante' (Paul
Sloan) has not been seen. Known to take down terrorists, gun
runners, and drug dealers, he has a long list of enemies. His
downfall and clue to his last know location is a wanna-be-filmmaker
who posted his 'missions' on YouTube. What the Vigilante didn't know
was on his last hit, he killed an Armenian mob boss' younger brother.
It will take some former ex-Marines to save him and before it's over
they will uncover the biggest conspiracy that is connected to the
Vigilante's origins in Christian Sesma's Vigilante Diaries
(2016).
The
Vigilante, a former marine himself, hired and trained in the biggest
off the books special forces/private black ops commandos. His
identity has been erased, he no longer exists within the system, he
is above, beyond the laws ...except when his picked the wrong target,
a man with personal ties to his 'funders'. Now, the entire Armenian
mob wants him dead. If only a certain wanna-be-filmmaker (Jason
Mewes) didn't post his missions on line... now they have the
Vigilante's wife and child. He is considered now a loose cannon (and
expendable), but only thing they didn't count on is ...now it's
personal.
While
this was an action packed movie and had a ton of well know actors
(including Michael Madsen, Michael Jai White, Quinton Jackson), but
the action was a bit slow, while people got 'shot' and died, nobody
got serious injuries... biggest injury was a gun shot, it just didn't
seem realistic. It also seemed like it wanted to be like a
'superhero'/Punisher movie (but minus the costumes). The
entire movie seemed like, OK, we have ex-special forces, marines,
black ops, CIA, and the Mafia, let's see who can be the biggest bad
ass with guns and one liner. They should of focused a little more on
story/plot.
The
1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image is usually just fine,
but it has limits, is nit very memorable and an HD-shoot on the flat
side. The lossless Dolby TrueHD 5.1 mix is inconsistently mixed and
recorded, not resolving very well all the time or having a consistent
soundfield, with a slight digital phoniness to boot. Extras include
a behind the scenes piece and trailers.
-
Ricky Chiang
