Review of Bushwick

Bushwick (2017)
7/10
Good Conspiracy/Political Action Thriller
9 January 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Bushwick: Texas attempts to secede from the Union, Militia groups try to seize control of New York and other east coast cities. We follow events in Bushwick, Brooklyn where grad student Lucy (Brittany Snow) and an ex-marine, Stupe (Dave Bautista) make their way through the confusion, first to her grandmothers house and then to an evacuation point.

Chaos reigns and some looting ensues but the militias are confronted by locals who have more guns and backbone than those good old southern boys expected. Hasidic Jews armed with AR16s and Molotov Cocktails prove more than a match for the Master Race. I love the smell of burning ubermensch in the morning!

Black, White, Hispanic, Asian and Jew unite to fight back against the invaders. This is uplifting but it is a dark film which shows the reality of such Urban Warfare. Don't get too attached to characters as they are winnowed like wheat. Police are mostly absent and we only see US Military overhead in copters.

Good Conspiracy/Political Action Thriller left down a bit by shaky acting and Bautista mumbling his lines. 7/10. (On Netflix.)
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