This film feels like it should've been made in the 80's. Not sure it would've been any better but it would've fit the genre at the time. The story is a bit dated.
The film does suffer in a few respects, namely the characters. No one is very likeable, not even Maggie Q's main character. The main characters are a bunch of friends who are having a bachelorette party but the film falls into the troupe that all the women are catty to each other and don't get along. The antagonists which are a group of men are just as unlikeable due to their 1-dimensional bad guyness.
The story has issues. The film is punctuated with time stamps which don't help because all I keep thinking is what has this character been doing for the last hour? The bad guy's plan to wait the women out made no sense. They should've just rushed the house and wiped everyone in the first minute when they had the upper hand. Maggie Q's character's military tactics don't make a lot of sense and she doesn't save anyone in the end. One of the characters disappears and doesn't show up until the end. The showdown between Maggie Q and the main villain is very lackluster.
The epilogue is the real topper. The stuff with the sheriff is bizarre and the story Maggie Q has told the cops is weird. The odd interaction with the survivors needed explaining. It felt like a story thread was cut or the epilogue was tacked on to get the runtime up to 90 minutes because it was unnecessary/confusing.
Overall another low-budget subpar action flick.
The film does suffer in a few respects, namely the characters. No one is very likeable, not even Maggie Q's main character. The main characters are a bunch of friends who are having a bachelorette party but the film falls into the troupe that all the women are catty to each other and don't get along. The antagonists which are a group of men are just as unlikeable due to their 1-dimensional bad guyness.
The story has issues. The film is punctuated with time stamps which don't help because all I keep thinking is what has this character been doing for the last hour? The bad guy's plan to wait the women out made no sense. They should've just rushed the house and wiped everyone in the first minute when they had the upper hand. Maggie Q's character's military tactics don't make a lot of sense and she doesn't save anyone in the end. One of the characters disappears and doesn't show up until the end. The showdown between Maggie Q and the main villain is very lackluster.
The epilogue is the real topper. The stuff with the sheriff is bizarre and the story Maggie Q has told the cops is weird. The odd interaction with the survivors needed explaining. It felt like a story thread was cut or the epilogue was tacked on to get the runtime up to 90 minutes because it was unnecessary/confusing.
Overall another low-budget subpar action flick.