Backfire

Overly ambitious novice writer, director, producer and actor Dave Patten wore many hats in his basically first full length feature film, and although it had many flaws, I have to commend his efforts.

This is a B-grade independent film with C & B list actors. The main leads acted very well, but the mobsters were overboard and cliched. The score was decent in certain parts, but terrible in others. The editing was bad. The directing was primarily decent, but the shaky camera shots were dizzying and annoying. The writing was actually fairly decent, but still had its plot and pacing issues.

I couldn't love this film, but I couldn't hate it either in knowing its a novice low budget indie production, as I've seen much worse bigger productions.

I'm the 6th review and 4/5 (10's) are clearly fake - sad to see the producers feel the need to do that, and the other 1/10 review is undeserving. The current rating of 5.9 is about right, nothing higher and not below a 5/10. I'm giving this a 5/10 that may have been a 6/10 had I not been annoyed by the fake 10/10 reviews.