Stop, drop and roll works. Synopsis James' mother blackmails Stupe and Lucy into going to the local church where evacuees are hiding and convince the parish priest to meet up at a local laundromat to arm everyone to fight back as they head to the DMZ. Tweet. (Side note: I know that screaming-man-on-fire is a favorite shock effect of hack filmmakers the world over, but “stop drop and roll” is a real-life thing, unlike “shooting zombies in the head is the only way to kill them,” which is only a movie thing. Yikes. However, they did not expect the armed resistance from the neighbourhood. The obnoxious, opportunistic premise is a menace-from-within scenario that’s laughable even in the wake of certain current events. [11] Chuck Bowen of Slant Magazine called it a "a genre film with a refreshing sense of political infrastructure". Lucy then tells everyone to meet up at the laundromat to get guns to fight with. Lucy, whose grandmother must be really very strict, goes to the sidewalk anyway, to see an overturned flaming Mr. Softee truck, and varied parties shooting and blowing stuff up. The movie’s main feature is a group of long-take, moving-camera action scenes that I guess might have been more engaging had the characters on the run and in battle been figures you wanted to spend any time with. Interrupting this unsavory bit of race-baiting is Dave Bautista, an ex-Marine named “Stupe,” who owns the basement in which the rape is considered. | Additionally, they seem to have written their dialogue by typing out “We gotta get the f**k out of here!” into their Final Draft document, copying that, and then pasting it onto each page, two or three times. Jane Levy was attached to play the female lead role of Lucy. Together they decide to cross the treacherous five blocks of Bushwick - littered with looters, local militias and the invading forces, in order to get home and be reunited with Lucy's grandmother. Along the way, they encounter James and his mother in their building. No sooner does milquetoast boyfriend get to the sidewalk than he too is incinerated. I once set my entire forearm on fire in a lighter fluid mishap, and I stopped, dropped and rolled instinctually, and it worked! Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here. As for the thing that will have New Yorkers checking out: When Lucy comes out of the subway station, she is indeed in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn; she runs past Jefferson Avenue’s fabled Owl Juice Pub and other landmarks. Together they decide to cross the treacherous five blocks of Bushwick - littered with looters, local militias and the invading forces, in order to get home and be reunited with Lucy's grandmother. [3] On November 4, 2015, Brittany Snow was cast in the film replacing Levy to play her role Lucy. Stupe, a combat veteran, leaves his home to try to reach his family in Hoboken, Lucy joins him as she tries to get to her grandmother's house. The site's critical consensus reads, "Bushwick's sociopolitical subtext gives it more heft than the average action thriller, but those ideas are given short shrift in what amounts to a disappointing shoot-'em-up. Belinda gets shot in the leg and Lucy runs over to her. These set pieces are either getting much easier to do, or they are the sole talent of co-directors Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott, because the filmmakers distinguish themselves in precisely zero other ways. He’s an ex-Marine who’s supposed to have Rambo-esque skills (and of course somebody makes a point of mentioning the Stallone character, for “verisimilitude,” I guess), but when he deigns to teach Lucy how to use a gun, he never shows her where the safety is. This movie will lose the goodwill of any longtime New Yorker watching it within the first ten minutes. Their reverie is interrupted by a screaming man, his body entirely on fire, running down from the subway’s street level stairs. Directed by Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion. They find her in a house but the men are killed by Stupe, the owner of the house. The final shot of smoke shows that the rest of New York City has been under attack as well. The film is about a former US NAVY Hospital Corpsmen (Dave Bautista) and a young graduate student (Brittany Snow) who form an unlikely alliance during the invasion of their city by a mysterious, heavily-armed militia. When a U.S. based military force invades their Brooklyn neighborhood, 20-year-old Lucy and war veteran Stupe must depend on each other to survive. This movie will lose the goodwill of any longtime New Yorker watching it within the first ten minutes. Drugged up, Belinda does not realize what is going on until a mercenary breaks into the home. When a U.S. based military force invades their Brooklyn neighborhood, 20-year-old Lucy and war veteran Stupe must depend on each other to survive. The numbskull faux nihilism of the ending is possibly intended as a homage to a recently departed horror movie director, but it’s more like a callow insult. Parents Guide. Miles Morales Swings Players into the Future of Gaming, Lasting Fright: The Staying Power of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Mr. As Stupe and Lucy wait for James to arrive with Belinda, they briefly talk about their lives before the war, with Stupe revealing his family had actually died during the September 11 attacks, and had told Lucy he was going to Hoboken just to try to get rid of her, but is glad she stayed with him. "[9], Simon Crook for Empire praised the film calling it a brilliant B-movie with a political punch and called for a sequel. Principal photography on the film began early December 2015 in Brooklyn, New York City. Lucy is an entitled, petulant dolt whose most interesting trait is that she doesn’t go into shock despite conditions that would put her there multiple times. Synopsis. After both are injured during the fighting, they have to work together to rescue family members and escape to the US army's extraction point for civilians. Church Avenue, service by the G and F lines, as the visible signage shows.
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