Instant Death (2017)

Pretty Good

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

A vicious gang war for drug dominance draws in Special Forces veteran John Bradley. Trying to adjust to normal life and haunted by inner demons of a violent past, the underworld's retribution on his daughter and grandchild leads to a mild rampage of fury and violence that not even the brutality of gangland is prepared for.......Yet another Taken knock off arrives, and this time it's Lou Ferrigno heading to the crime capital of...........Leeds, to visit his estranged family.On the way he stumbles upon a pound stretcher Ray Winstone kill a small time crook, and they go after him. After a quick action sequence featuring some of the poorest choreographed fighting I've seen, he meets his family and acts like nothing has happened.Then the bad guys attack his family, in the most foulest, abhorrent, pointless scene of violence I have seen, and this made me instantly hate the film.What was the point of having this scene? It's nothing more than exploitation to enhance the revenge part of the film. And it's just so poorly executed, you wonder what was the rationale of the writer......titillation? Then we get Ferrigno stumbling around various parts of Leeds performing poor action scenes, and spouting ridiculous lines until the predictable climax.It's quite terrible, it's a very seedy film, which could have been a throwaway entertaining 90 minutes like Wrath, Tokarev, or even A Good Man.But no, it decides to be a little bit different, and it ends up leaving a nasty taste in your mouth.Obviously the high ratings are nothing more than plants.A disgusting mess.

i would like to give only 2 start, old story line with same revenge drama with action scenes without sense. poor screen play poor action sequences poor cast poor story line. in start i was really expecting some good action because of the strong character of villain shown in move but later on table turn around like we are watching a dream and hero start killing big gangsters like nothing without getting single wound from them.

Directed by Ara Paiaya, who also co-wrote and produced, Instant Death rides on solid, well-worn tracks, keeping true to a number of tropes the genre laid down in dozens of films that came before, from inept cronies that fall like harvested wheat, to women in jeopardy, to phone calls between heroes and (slow-clapping) villains, to higher-ups who help on one side and those who pull strings on the other. It's classic Revenge 101, and yet, that doesn't mean it's not done well. Paiaya keeps things zipping along fast, and builds plenty of decent tension, while Bradley is reduced to a one-man army with no equal.

I love a good action movie cliché. It only takes 23 minutes for us to get to a strip club! Lou does a run-in on the strip club from earlier and bitch slaps a bunch of the guys before beating the utter pulp out of everyone and taking out the boss man. Ferrigno's fighting style is very tree-like. I mean, the man is 65 years old so he can't be expected to move like he's still 25. His bulking size keeps it from looking too ridiculous at any point and I bought in pretty quickly. Cult classic!