Review derails. Off the Grid – 61 minutes.

Low budget films tend to begin on almost end where we usually see a dramatic scene in which a lead character gets in danger and then narration returns to what was some days ago. Off the Grid was more inventive by showing that Josh Duhamel kills a head villain and that deprives in reason to worry for him in further how an actor didn’t try to convince through demonstration of his state.

I didn’t pass there and I wanted to continue because a story was promising by it’s original conception and a scriptwriter Jim Agnew had a some credibility. That man was involved in impressed me Tokarev, which US distributor did a common simplification by releasing it as Rage, and… how to say… well, he was a solo writer of Kill’em All 2.

A plot kept to beautiful. Unusual for such production a complex screenplay in together with same elaboration of personages and dialogs. I couldn’t be furious that two men does usual talking but tension music plays with no point and it dampens conversation though it didn’t create a hurdle with listening. But awful was coming and somewhere things became simple. One bad guy shows his nasty essence by not paying for water in a shop. A terrible human being! Triviality of other villain was in demonstration of his knowledge in history in front of Duhamel’s love interest (by the way that line was wonderful), which he finishes it with gross end. He makes a psychological pressure in getting information from her but it has a one nuance which is that they are not alone and not in closed location – that man does this torture in presence of many witnesses. He doesn’t get “asking” because a stereotype comes here, which in entering of visitor who asks a lead lady about working TV.

Nonsense was before. If I see point in Duhamel’s reasons to act on his own but it accept with two other personages who get in danger that they don’t mind to call police but nobody cares. Furthermore, nobody cares in this little town on a group of men in armed suits and holding an assault weapon. And how a second villain recognized a guy which he didn’t meet before?

Nobody in filming crew know how to make action. Why these mercenaries should care on common lights, which were trap, of course, but they are not unusual. Activated explosions only changes face of one evil man, but it was sufficient for a first villain to shoot him in face. Nobody cares on that act. They approach to resident house and after some actions white smoke thing releases and kills two men instantly but two other survive with no point though they were on same place. It was lazy staged because that released gas comes and the next shot is these stayed alive people run away while unlucky couple just changed position – no showing how it affected on them.

I had some sympathy here, which was to script’s ideas, a protagonist’s personality and the love line.