Where to start, where to start.
- The fight scenes are atrocious Bad enough that you wont mind about the horrible foley during those scenes.
- The movie begins a bit like someone telling a half-remembered story in a hurry. Feels disjointed and rushed.
- Jumpcut flashback scenes at random moments feel like this is an arthouse movie by a fledgeling director.
- The headliner of the movie who is so prominently displayed on the poster is on screen far less than you'd expect and mostly to recite exposition.
- Not only does the main character look (vaguely) like Steven Seagal, he acts like him too. To be fair: Most other actors in this waste of digital media do too.
- Pivotal scenes (kidnappings, autopsies and ritual killings) are too often told, not shown. Thereby defeating the purpose of filming the thing in the first place.
- Some glaring continuity errors.
- The ending is as the beginning: A disjointed mess, rushed and unneeded. The final scene is just stupid.
All told, this is a sad low budget cash-grab and I cannot imagine or fathom why Freeman lent his name and likeness to this dross. No redeeming qualities at all. Took all my self control to finish the thing.
This was a ridiculous attempt at something exciting, and I don't know what the director was trying to achieve. Weak storyline, and the ending was mostly... well.
Don't waste your time. 3/10.
Wow. What a waste of 90 minutes. Totally spoilt by the last 10 seconds. Poor ending. Morgan Freeman must be really struggling.
As a detective Cole Hauser makes a great cowboy. This was 4/10. Don’t bother.
Not exactly the worst serial killer type movie...definitely not the best, though. I will say Morgan Freeman carried this. Without him, I'd probably not have watched this.
Wasted potential is probably of the worst things, so much of this could have been better. If you haven't watched Se7en, then watch that instead.
I guess the budget was basically gone when they had Freeman and Stormare connected to the project. Then there was no money left for a proper scenarist and some decent writers, so they had to hire a bunch of high school students.
Director George Gallow once provided the screenplay for Midnight Run. That movie is a classic but The Ritual Killer? Garbage - on a par with Gallo's last disappointment, Vanquish.
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This was slightly better than I expected. Except for the ending. The ending felt wrong and was completely unexpected.
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