Vigilante Diaries (2016)

Vigilante Diaries: Directed by Christian Sesma. With Paul Sloan, Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, Jason Mewes, Kevin L. Walker. After killing a lot of bad guys including Armenians, Vigilante is wanted by the Armenian mafia boss, who gets help – but so does Vigilante.

“I look at the blurb before the cast and writer and director but it didnu0026#39;t take more than a few minutes into this movie to suspect itu0026#39;s a writer/director effort! He really should have stuck to cooking! It comes with a second writer who also stars but thatu0026#39;s no great shakes of a recommendation.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s not a dire action movie, but it does come with the usual action flick clichés, improbabilities (impossibilities!), set pieces, contrivances and, yes, stupidities (when youu0026#39;ve got the guy where you want him, yeah, put the gun away and go hand-to-hand! Doh! Moron! (er, thatu0026#39;s the writer(s)!)! The bad guys speak English for most of the movie but 2/3rds of the way through they start speaking in their native language and weu0026#39;re treated to subtitles. Oh dear…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOh yes, the hip hop/rap music is crap, too!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut the movie mainly falls down in the explanation department. It could be me, but trying to follow whou0026#39;s who and whou0026#39;s done what to whom and why, got off to a bad start and didnu0026#39;t really get any easier. However, if you just go with the flow you can enjoy an action flick (with just a twinge of gratuitous torture) for what it is.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe performances are nothing to write home about but Michael Madsen does well (although he doesnu0026#39;t actually do much) but must have been looking for work.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s all sort of OK, but not brilliant and thereu0026#39;s the ever-present feeling that it should and could have been better.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf youu0026#39;ve nothing else to do on a weekday night, give it a whirl, but have a few beers with it, accept it for what it is and wonder why youu0026#39;re watching this when you could be watching a 7* movie.”