Review of Acceleration

Acceleration (2019)
2/10
Cheap John Wick wannabe
15 October 2020
This movie is like a "John Wick wannabe" with a female lead, but lacks any of John Wick's charm or polished quality and the result feels like a cheap knock-off. It seems more like a vanity project for Natalie Burn who plays the protagonist and is also the producer of this "marvel".

I've played video games that had more coherent storyline than this movie. It seems that somebody threw up on a piece of paper and called it a movie script. The movie never bothers explaining any backstory of the characters and the chaotic scene cuts don't help the story progression either. For its empty story, the movie has a surprisingly big cast. Granted, most of them are just mindless goons that are supposed to be unceremoniously killed off. For an action movie the fighting and shooting sequences are just laughable. So are the sound effects - they could just go: "pew-pew!".

The acting is awful across the board, but it's not like they had much to work with anyway. Sean Patrick Flanery just mumbles in incoherent sentences through the whole thing trying hard to be "the crazy bad guy" and Dolph Lundgren was relegated to sitting in a basement and looking at 3 computer screens for most of the movie. Unfortunately he is way past his prime like some other action movie stars from 80s and 90s.

It's not a completely amateur effort, so gets 2* for spending about 1/3 of the time driving around in Maserati, nice opening titles and some decent post-production effects.
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