Striking Range 2006 123movies

Watch: Striking Range 2006 123movies, Full Movie Online – When millionaire businessman Ted Billings (Glenn Morshower) double-crosses his partners in a weapons deal, he decides to hire some protection. Billings enlists Eugene “Vash” Vasher (Lou Diamond Phillips) a mercenary-for-hire and soon, Vash is fighting off assaults on his boss from all sides, but on top of that, he doesn’t even like Billings who has a hidden agenda. Among the shoot-outs and chases, Vash forms a bond with Emily (Yancy Butler) Billings’ chief-of-security and Vash’s former flame who’s not all that she appears to be..
Plot: When millionaire businessman Ted Billings (Glenn Morshower) double-crosses his partners in a weapons deal, he decides to hire some protection. Billings enlists Eugene “Vash” Vasher (Lou Diamond Phillips) a mercenary-for-hire and soon, Vash is fighting off assaults on his boss from all sides, but on top of that, he doesn’t even like Billings who has a hidden agenda. Among the shoot-outs and chases, Vash forms a bond with Emily (Yancy Butler) Billings’ chief-of-security and Vash’s former flame who’s not all that she appears to be.
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Reviews:

so close to being something good
great actors (Lou Diamond Philips, Glenn Morshower) and good actors (Yancy Butler), mixed with good action, a stolid if mediocre and predictable plot, and an obviously low budget = something kind of sad. While there are no major disappointments in this flick, and there are several glimmers of something beyond the typical B movie actioner… it just doesn’t quite manage to make it over the fence from B movie to A movie. Halfway through it you feel like you don’t need to see the rest ‘cuz you know exactly what’s going to happen, though the cast does a great job with the thin material they’ve been given. Lou Diamond Philips seems to be one of those great actors that’s terminally unable to distinguish good projects from bad, he just keeps cropping up in these roles (and movies) that are far below his talents.

mess
When his career began, Lou Diamond Phillips promised so much as an actor, that I have continued to see his films hoping that this promise would be fulfilled. But, while Phillips’ acting is as good as ever, he has just made one bad film after another, so, until he or his agent learn what to look for in a script, I’m afraid “Striking Range” is the last time I’ll be seeing Phillips for a while.

This is an action film, and the actions scenes are OK. But the script really reeks. line by line the dialog is OK, but the story is a real mess. The idea of tossing a psycho-killer into the mix of a conflict between two mercenary groups might have seemed good on paper, but it’s a bad strategy: psycho-killers have to be explained at some point in a film, because otherwise their motivations come off as silly. I know that sounds bizarre, but what I mean is that the explanation helps the audience suspend their disbelief in why anybody would want to kill people simply because they work at some office or attend some school or stopped at the wrong restaurant for dinner. This disbelief is essential to our sense of morality – it is why the violence of real psycho-killers, like the Columbine boys, is so horrifying and why we take such strong measures to counter it: we simply cannot believe anyone could be that vile.

Since the writer of this film has left himself little time to develop the psycho-killer aspect of the plot, he has to resort to cheap tricks, stereotypes, and cliché to make the whole thing work somehow. The psycho-killer comes across as a parody.

Meanwhile a plot twist seems to resolve the mercenary conflict – except that it doesn’t, it’s so wholly unprepared and obviously artificial. We want clues to this sort of thing, so we can look back on the film to say “I should have seen that coming,” but we can’t do this here, no one could have seen it coming, it doesn’t make sense.

And what is the thematic connection between the mercenary conflicts and the psycho-killer’s? Even Sigmund Freud couldn’t tell you; I don’t think there is any.

the writer here needs psychoanalysis for coming up with this hodgepodge, and Phillips needs it to try to figure out how he could throw away his mature career on such hooey.

Four stars for the action scenes, the rest gets – blah!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Thriller
Director Daniel Millican
Writer Daniel Millican
Actors Lou Diamond Phillips, Yancy Butler, Tom Wright
Country United States
Awards N/A
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Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
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Negative Format 35 mm
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