Crosshairs (2013)

Wonderful character development!

hyped garbage

From my favorite movies..

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Jack (Robert Seay) is an ex-Iraqi war vet, which we know from the movies all become hired killers. His latest request to murder a porn producer (Jeffrey Vincent Parise) who disfigured an eastern European woman brought to America to make adult film. There is a subplot which involves his ex-GF and former sister-in-law (same person, Kodi Kitchen) who shows up at his door one day needing a place to crash. Meanwhile there is a guy named Brill (Mark Rolston) who wants to recruit Jack.The action scenes are quick which allows the film to move slow. Jack doesn't really have any character and its stone faced the entire film. The subplots don't come together in a clever fashion as one would expect which leaves you wondering, "what's the point?" There are better indie action films out there. Poorly conceived and poorly executed.Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex talk, off screen sex, nude painting on wall.

I spent almost two hours watching Crosshairs with a cast that I barely know anything about and a film I had to watch in stages as it bored me to tears. As it was when I finally finished the film I still wasn't sure about what I had watched so incoherent was the story.Robert Seay is hired to exact some revenge payment on a man who abused a Russian débutante whom we discover later is a high priced call girl. But he gets persistently bothered by Mark Rolston who wants to offer him a new and challenging career, the specifics of which are never really spelled out. What can I say, the direction is lifeless, the players sleepwalk through their roles and the script is incoherent. Pass this by.

This movie is reminiscent of 80's drama movies where the whole movie you are being dragged along to one final scene. The main character, Jack, was not your typical gun slinging hit-man, but rather a crafty, quiet, and cold individual. In a lot of ways this reminded me of guys who were snipers, in that there was a quiet way about them, almost as if they have seen a lot but were not going to share it or their thoughts. I appreciate the twists towards the end, when he takes out the Sausage guy. In some ways I thought that might be the case when he was spilling his guts to Jack, but even then it was hard to tell as his character was so sleazy. The one thing that his movie did do was leave me hanging with a few questions. This is good in some ways, but provides no closure regarding Jack. All in all it was a good movie. I really liked the blip cameo of the director on the TV program. BTW what was that??

Believe it or not but I really wanted to like this movie. Waited for a DVD release, pre-ordered and then, when it finally arrived, I can't believe how the good storyline was wasted. On paper everything looks good but that's it. I have no idea why film drags for 2 hours when it should be maximum 80 minutes long and then, maybe there would be more tension in it. Because it is that long, it has to rely on acting and here comes the biggest failure. Leading actor Robert Seay is just beyond terrible. For the first few minutes I thought he will do just fine. Contract killer doesn't have to look tough after all. However, just after those few minutes I realized how big failure of an actor he is. Emotional scenes don't exist because this guy can't act. He's trying to look tough, talk tough and act tough but he's not tough, he's not smart and he just makes you laugh like hell when you see him trying. With a lead like that, your movie has to sink. Rest of the cast is pretty much horrible like that but it doesn't show that much because they usually appear on screen for a minute or less. There is however one man, doing his job right. It's Mark Rolston, fantastic actor who's trying to save this film. He can't do that because he's alone and his screen time is limited to few scenes. It's hard to say if he's a good guy or the bad guy after all but Mark does his job with charisma as usual. Tom Sizemore is top billed but to any fans out there(if he still have some fans that is) -he appears in one scene only. This scene however have to be seen to be believed. Not because he's doing great job but because he's high as hell. Yup, we all know Tom likes drugs and it doesn't bother me at all if he does them in his free time but being so high on the set is just...wrong. If you ever wondered why he's not in a big movies anymore - here is your answer. He has a monologue here and it could sound well if provided by other name actor but it wasn't. I hope his name helped to sell the film because his acting was just plain horrible. Kodi Kitchen is a leading lady and to be honest she does a fair job. She's not that much of an actress but around so many amateurs, she shines. 'Crosshairs' tries to be a thriller but there is no tension at all. There is action at all. If you expect any shootouts, fights or anything like that - forget it. All they do is talk. Leading guy fires his gun two or three times during the whole film, no one else tries to. I'm giving it 3 stars for Mark Rolston and because technically it looks good. If you want to skip any action and base your film on acting, you need to have a good actors. Otherwise it doesn't make sense.