
Michael ‘Duffy’ Duffield (Frank Grillo, King of Killers, One Day as a Lion), a soldier turned drifter, struggles with PTSD throughout the movie. The film starts with Duffy alighting from a bus and he gets punched in the face to the guess of him being cheated at a card game less than five minutes after his debut in the footage. It’s pretty evident to the people watching how easily Duffy (Mekhi Phifer, Divergent, Truth Be Told) dispatches the other players to clip off their pre-planned cash.
Max has just gotten out of jail and needs some quick money. He spots Duffy’s impressive range of fighting styles and gets the bright idea to market underground fights through Fosco (Amaury Nolasco, Armored, A Good Day to Die Hard). Duffy also requires a little money, but that is not a problem to ensure.
When he was still free, Max had a considerable debt to a certain Sage which he was ready to repay with some interest. It’s never wise to get involved with a Sage and now he has some sleeping partners who are easily paid off cops, for instance, Detective Ridgway and her partner Detective Kincaid. Saddled Demi Moore reinvents herself in the role of Detective Kancaid, who is not above corruption and gets slapped alongside this fairytale sage. Duffy also actively pursued romance with Max’s sister, Rachael, and her then-partner put them on sage along with Ridgway’s bad side.
Christian Sesma, the director, and Chad Law, Garry Charles, and Brandon Burrows, the screenwriters of the film Lights Out, participated in the creation of movies such as that. So, it’s no surprise that Duffy returns with a vengeance. He secures Max’s pay wage with the elite fight club run by Sage. Sage brings Max the dues owed while Ridgway climbs the wall to reach Saturn then Kincaid transforms into a Californian and Duffy boards a storm and terrorises Rosie.
It’s interesting to consider that, in Light Out, rather than entrusting an unproven actor with such a role, they decided to provide reliable actors such as Mulroney, Grillo, and Phifer with notable screen time. However, unflattering comparisons can be drawn about Scott Adkins, who is listed in the cast of Seized and Re-Kill. Scott Adkins first gets to appear in Grillo’s dream and is only to be seen towards the end at a shootout against a crooked SWAT member.
The film’s highlights are its fighting scenes, which were also choreographed by Luke LaFontaine who was also responsible for other effective films such as The Sand and White Elephant. He was also given credit for the beer fights in the film, which were quite short but certainly powerful. Lights Out logically ends in a shootout which while being a flaw of the film was a win as well, Lights Out appeared underwhelming in this segment due to Adkin’s recourse of fighting style. He barely engages in any fighting, or precisely underground fighting, which is unfortunate.
The ‘Animated X-ray’ option of this game in a sense feels like a gimmick, where we watch moving images of bones break or organs burst. It is quite clear that it was a screenshot of the latest Mortal Kombat game so the impressions of it are rather average. After all, the likes of Sonny Chiba, Jet Li, Tony Jaa, and many other actors have impressed many years ago through Kung Fu cinema, so a silly representation is bound to hardly impress most fans.
Overall, Lights Out is a rather good movie, though a bit predictable The horror genre has always had terrible actors and meaningless lines, so being anywhere near decent actors reciting even remotely decent lines in between action makes watching the actors between the action scenes much more bearable. But that does change quite a bit more than what you would expect.
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