4Got10 (2015)

Brian Barnes (Johnny Messner) wakes up in the desert wounded and with no memory and no idea why he's surrounded by eight bodies, a van with four million in cash and a van full of cocaine. Brian is pursued by not only notorious drug lord Danny Perez (Danny Trejo) who desperately want his money back, and DEA Agent Rooker (Dolph Lundgren), but also a by the corrupt Sheriff Olson (Michael Pare) who will stop at nothing to get his hand on the new found fortune. On the run, Brian discovers the more he remembers the less he wants to know about who he really is. 4Got10 is an obvious cash grab that tries to be a smart thriller but the twist makes the movie even worse, the acting is bad, the characters are boring and the entire film could only just be 10 minutes instead of 84 minutes. They even try the whole western routine with slow motion gun fights and one of them involves Michael Paré and Danny Trejo and i died laughing it reminded me more of a Police Academy rip/off than an actual action film, also the ending is an abomination against humanity and i'm seriously disappointed that Lundgren said yes to star in this travesty. (Ultimate 0/10)

"Decommissioned" director Timothy Woodward Jr. and scenarist Sean Ryan have scored another winner with "4Got10," a contemporary crime thriller involving the DEA, the Mexican Cartel, and a corrupt county sheriff. Woodward Jr. and Ryan field a greater than usual number of characters and explore them in vignettes that eventually end up tied neatly together. Typically, too many characters can slow down a movie as well as clutter up an action opus. Instead, the surplus of characters in this movie keeps you guessing about who they really are and what they will accomplish. "4Got10" surpasses the usual B-movie, and the cast is superb. This multi-faceted story unfolds with a scene straight out of "No Country for Old Men" with some variations. We have a mystery man, Brian Barnes (Johnny Messner of "Decommissioned"), who awakens to find himself at the scene of a bloody massacre at a rendezvous among drug-traffickers. We have corrupt Sheriff Olsen (Michael Pare of "Streets of Fire") who decides to shoot his faithful partner, Samuel Perez (Michael John Long of "Weaponized," but who turns out to be the son of notorious drug czar Mateo Perez (Danny Trejo of "Heat") who wants his money back. Imagine Mateo's surprise when he discovers that his son was a cop hiding under an alias! Basically, everybody that you think is dirty turns out to be clean. Woodward Jr. stages some skillful shoots and deploy optical effects to make the guns appear more intimidating. The final shootout between Mateo and Olsen is something to see. The two guys are essentially sitting down and shooting at each other from no more than five feet away. Pare makes a great villain, and Dolph Lundgren's DEA Agent is somebody to see in action. Dolph sports glasses and appears very bureaucratic. "4Got10" isn't to be missed if you like fast action and provocative reversals.

A shoot'em up bang bang bore.OMG this flick is a real attention tester. I just lost interest and forced myself to try to watch this dusty hot mess because Danny Trejo is in it and I think his camera time was maybe ten minutes. Dialog bad, actors bad, story boring.And Dolph Lundgren really looks bad and old. Well I guess he is old but his acting talents haven't improved with age. And Danny (who is usually fun to watch) is just a pointless character that could have been played by an unknown actor. It doesn't matter here in this flick anyway.Bad is bad and 4Got10 is text book bad. A bore!

Another day and another low budget, straight to Pay TV, sub Tarantino action thriller with B movie actors.Johnny Messner is Brian Barnes who comes around suffering a bullet wound, surrounded by dead bodies and dynamic titles telling you who all the main characters are.Brian is a bad boy who has managed to get out alive but he needs to piece back his life together because he really had forgotten who he is and how he got into this mess.Dolph Lundgren is the smart law agent who is investigating the killings. Micheal Pare is the crooked sheriff who has found a case full of money and is tempted to take it all. Danny Trejo is the ruthless crime lord who has lost a shed load of money and is looking to get it. Worse still his son bizarrely ran away to become a policeman and he was also killed in the incident. Trejo wants his son's death avenged.Conveniently the various plot strands come together for contrived shoot outs as the bad guys drop one by one. Brian gets his memories back piecemeal and completes the jigsaw and Lundgren tries to stay one step ahead. The audience will have got a better grasp of where it's all heading in this poorly written film.The film wants to be a hip smart thriller but the plotting is just too convenient. Having Vivicia Fox along with Trejo just reminds us too much of better Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez films.