Where bullets never hit unless the plot decides they should.
Wildcat
This action film follows ex-spec ops Ada (played by Kate Beckinsale), who calls on her old comrades and buffoon of a brother to pull off a heist to save her young daughter. Why didn't they just go rescue the daughter directly and why does the already small team split up to do their individual side-quests? To fill/pad out the runtime! One of those said side-quests could have been cut out all together and it would have improved the film. Also Kate's no longer the action-vixen she was in the Underworld movies (now she's just a vixen :P), and her melee skills now detract to the whole thing. There's also friendly fire incident is also pretty bad as is the way the film tries to handle Ada's brother's character who definitely should have been left at home as he just puts everyone in danger all the time. Not recommended.
Terror on the Praire
This Western has Gina Carano starring as a normal wife trying to eke out a living on the inhospitable frontier, and that's before a band of bad dudes shows up at her door! While the boiled down main story of this is ok, they sure put a lot of filler scenes to the point I think the movie runtime could be cut in half and still be able to tell its story. Also while I do like that our protagonist really is not very bright and definitely terrible at shooting, that just makes it harder to fathom why the bad guys have such low morale in shootouts, continually being pushed back after what seem to be decent enough tactics to close ground. You outnumber your cornered and unskilled prey. WTF guys. Not recommended.
Deep Cover
When a trio of stand up comedians are recruited by law enforcement to act as undercover operatives it puts their improvisational skills to the test as they quickly find themselves getting into deeper and deeper trouble as what's supposed to be a superficial job somehow gets them deep into layers of organized crime. There are some decent laughs to be had in this comedy, but to make it work it is filled with silly bad guys and plot armor saves like you wouldn't believe. All up an OK flick if you have nothing else to watch.
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