Incoherent plot with an unbearable screenplay; visually despicable, annoyingly disjointed, unintelligible, headach-inducing, nauseating, nonsensically insulting and barely tolerable for about 20 minutes max, at which point had to terminate it with prejudice to preserve self respect.
Headlock
2019
Action / Thriller
Headlock
2019
Action / Thriller
Plot summary
After new CIA recruit, Kelley Chandler (Polish) is seriously injured during a mission, surviving only on life support, his wife Tess (Agron),a former CIA operative, becomes determined to find out what happened to her husband. As the details of Kelley's last mission unravel, showing that his accident was an inside job, Tess puts everything on the line to keep Kelley out of harm's way, even if that comes with dangerous consequences.
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Aghast a Crock
Visually confusing
This film will give you a headache by the time you finished watching it, the frequent crosscutting scenes depicting Kelly's state of mind was irritating and makes it visually confusing. We get it he is in a coma, stuck with an intelligence in this head, we get itttt! There is no need to spend almost the entire runtime on those scenes.
The cinematography of this film ranges from good to bad, one scene is smooth with tinted blue filter, another one is greasy with yellow filter, the next one is normal, with pristine color. And the unsteady camera work and the repetitiveness of Kelly's visions makes it hard to watch even though most of the sceneries like the forest, beach, desert, and the night skylines are beautiful.
The futuristic sets/ props are good. The acting is ok, the editing is atrocious, with good editing this movie would have been tolerable 'cause the plotline seemed a bit refreshing. I definitely won't be this headache-inducing film ever again.
You're beginning to rot
This is another film where someone is conditioned to have a great memory and put together all the data inside their brain and there are no false memories. A CIA agent, Kelly Chandler (Mark Polish) is to gather intelligence on a massive terrorist attack which will be 12 cities across the world. And then the coma...
Both the CIA and his wife try to extract the data from his brain and they work both against and with each other. Now the film is mostly the interactions that are mixed with the confused thoughts of Kelly in a coma which are disjointed and repetitive. They are also meaningless to the viewer. It was overdone and a poor way to show his confused mind. The script needed editing, to say the least. The distorted man and the distorted voice was a low budget waste.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.