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2.5/4
Short, tense and captivating. My kind of movie.
ikkegoemikke - wrote on 03/23/2016
"Well, well, well. That man knows his guns. So do I."
As I said in my review about the film "Weaponized" : "I have a weak spot for low-budget, straight to DVD, B-movies" and occasionally I discover "a piddling, unknown and unloved movie, which surpasses some blockbusters in terms of content and design". "Standoff" is such a movie. An unpretentious film with a straight forward script. The makers don't waste too much time and introduce practically immediately a deadly, accurate assassin (Laurence Fishburne), who turns a modest funeral into a bloody massacre without batting an eye. His appearance reminded me a little of "The Terminator". But this time with a jet-black balaclava.
The only thing this professional, routinized killer didn't take into account, is Bird (Ella Ballentine). A …
