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Mel Gibson, Famke Janssen, Kevin Durand, Tyrese Gibson, and Scott Eastwood in Dangerous (2021)

A reformed sociopath journeys to a remote island to investigate the mystery behind his brother's demise, but soon ends up facing off with more than he bargained for. A reformed sociopath journeys to a remote island to investigate the mystery behind his brother's demise, but soon ends up facing off with more than he bargained for. A reformed sociopath journeys to a remote island to investigate the mystery behind his brother's demise, but soon ends up facing off with more than he bargained for.

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Scott Eastwood plays a killer whose attempts to change his ways hit a speed bump in David Hackl’s siege pic.

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A fearsome mercenary is forced to use the skills he’s trying to forget in David Hackl’s Dangerous , a cheapo bit of action product that has nearly as little personality as its title. Star Scott Eastwood has milked the resemblance he bears to his old man before, but here he augments the tough-guy squints with a confused, furrowed brow — it’s what his, uh, neurally atypical character does to show confusion when confronted with human emotion. (Viewers who share his affliction won’t be required to interpret many human emotions here.)

Right-leaning moviegoers who gravitate to a pic starring a junior Eastwood and a novelty-cast Mel Gibson will be rewarded with a story where lack of empathy for the less powerful isn’t just subtext, but central to the plot. But having done their counter-cancellation duty by clicking “rent” on this lifeless siege picture, some will likely decide they’re not obligated to watch through to the end credits.

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Release date: Friday, Nov. 5

Cast: Scott Eastwood, Kevin Durand, Mel Gibson, Famke Janssen, Tyrese Gibson

Director: David Hackl

Screenwriter: Christopher Borrelli

After a well-deserved stretch in prison for murder, Eastwood’s Dylan Forrester hopes to change his flawed nature via meds and the “behavioral modification techniques” he learns from Gibson’s Dr. Alderwood. But Dylan (known as D) is so far down the antisocial spectrum that he doesn’t know how to act at his own brother’s funeral: He has to consult index cards that prompt him to say “I’m so sorry for your loss” and to “give hug.” When faced with his mother’s grief-fueled anger, he doesn’t get why she’s upset: After all, it’s been days since her son died.

(That mom, with her continuous protests that this living son is worthless and her dead one’s a saint, is the shakiest of many one-note characters fleshing out the supporting cast.)

D was still on parole when he learned of his brother Sean’s death, and broke the terms of his release to travel to the private island Sean was turning into a vacation resort when he died. He did a little more than break parole, actually, and as a result the FBI is hunting him. That pursuit never leads to anything, though, and the storyline may exist solely so Famke Janssen (as D’s pursuer) can round out a testosterone-heavy cast. (Playing a Black sheriff surrounded by white people, Tyrese Gibson has a similarly thankless job — building to one absurd sequence in which, with D cuffed and behind bars, Gibson still treats him like a major threat.)

All of Sean’s loved ones are gearing up for an uncomfortable reunion when a boat full of heavily armed goons lands on the island. Their leader, Cole (grinning menace Kevin Durand, identified in dialogue as “that guy with the big teeth”), used to be D’s boss, but he didn’t know D would be on the island; he’s actually there because of a deeply, deeply implausible connection to the deceased. Regardless, Cole and company start hunting for something hidden on the island and being a general threat to everyone who stands in their way. Good thing the building Sean was turning into an inn is a former Navy facility, complete with steel shutters on all the windows!

In the ensuing standoff, we all know D will eventually have to embrace the killer inside him. But boy, is he reluctant. He makes several phone calls, some during gunfights, to an increasingly intoxicated Dr. Alderwood, asking for advice on how to handle things. Viewers who’ve seen John Cusack make similar calls to Alan Arkin in Grosse Pointe Blank may start to cringe, worrying that screenwriter Christopher Borrelli is trying to make us laugh. But any lines that might be meant as comedy thud to the ground here, more lifeless than the bad guys D knocks out but refuses to kill.

At least all the gunfire and cat-and-mouse stuff distracts us from the film’s and Eastwood’s very shaky embodiment of D’s mental condition. The question of what Cole is looking for on this island also provides some welcome distraction. Unlike the FBI plotline, this one does eventually lead to something. While that something may not be satisfying, at least it’s not small.

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Distributor: Lionsgate Production companies: Minds Eye Entertainment, Falconer Pictures Cast: Scott Eastwood, Kevin Durand, Mel Gibson, Famke Janssen, Tyrese Gibson Director: David Hackl Screenwriter: Christopher Borrelli Producers: Kevin Dewalt, Douglas Falconer, Benjamin Dewalt Director of photography: Mark Dobrescu Production designer: Kathy McCoy Costume designer: Maxyne Baker Editor: Jackie Dzuba Composer: Todd Bryanton Casting director: Deb Green

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‘Dangerous’ Review: Scott Eastwood as a Psychopathic Killer — Part Clint, Part Bourne — in a Slovenly Action Film

The actor is convincing as a killer insane enough to have Mel Gibson as his shrink, the movie less so.

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“Dangerous” is a bits-and-pieces action thriller with a fluky premise and a lead actor good enough to embody it. Made in the slipshod, overlit style of a straight-to-streaming potboiler, it’s not a rip-off so much as a film built out of spare parts from other movies, to the point that it never fully becomes itself. The central character, Dylan Forrester, known as D, is played by Scott Eastwood , and he’s presented as a flat-out psychopath. D is a former Navy SEAL with an underworld past, and he’s an empathy-free killing machine — not because he was programmed, but because that’s just the way he is.

But now he’s in recovery. Each day, he takes an anti-psychotic depressant prescribed by his psychiatrist, who is played as an affable drunk by Mel Gibson. Throughout the movie, D calls the shrink for advice (he’ll do it even in the midst of a gun battle), and while Gibson hasn’t lost his ability to steal a scene, it’s safe to say that when Mel Gibson is playing your benefactor of mental health, you’re probably dealing with some major issues. Eastwood, beneath a grizzly-man beard, plays D as a hunk of Jason Bourne meets a splash of Hannibal Lecter sprinkled with a dash of the actor’s own father — that is, he unabashedly echoes ’70s Clint’s playfully terse sadism. Under siege by his former criminal cronies, D stabs one of them through the leg until he collapses with a river of blood gushing out. “Femoral artery,” says D with deadpan Eastwoodian cheer. “You’re going to want to put some pressure on that. [pause] Too late.”

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Eastwood has the requisite stylish coldness to play a killer the movie itself characterizes as “insane,” and to get you to root for him. But “Dangerous,” as directed by David Hackl, is still a shambles of a movie, with a plot so contrived yet abstract that you spend each scene asking yourself how it’s all supposed to add up. It’s kicked off when D learns that his brother, a former history professor who opened a bed and breakfast on Guardian Island off the coast of Washington, has died, the victim of a scaffolding accident. When D shows up for the wake and funeral, we learn that his mother (Brenda Bazinet) hates him, and that he himself seems to hate more or less everyone. Maybe there’s supposed to be some sort of integrity to the bad feeling, but all I could think is that “Dangerous” is a thriller with no human connection. I don’t mean that the connections are thinly drawn or unconvincing — I mean there’s no pretense that any two characters have anything approaching a simpatico bond.

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D’s old cronies show up, led by Cole (Kevin Durand), who’s a bit of a psycho himself — a cackling tall stooge out of the Vince Vaughn school — and after D shuts the armored windows on the bed-and-breakfast (which lets you know that his brother was up to something more than running an inn), the movie turns into an ambush thriller that’s slapped together enough to make your average “Purge” film look like “Straw Dogs.” Guardian Island turns out to be an abandoned Naval base, with a wartime secret we don’t learn about until the end. And D, to defeat his enemies, must give into the psychopath he’s been trying to quell with drugs and therapy. Somehow, the movie ends up portraying him as a good guy. It may be to Eastwood’s credit as an actor that I was never remotely convinced.

Reviewed online, Nov. 3, 2021. MPAA rating: R. Running time: 99 MIN.

  • Production: A Lionsgate release of a Benaroya Pictures, Minds Eye Entertainment, Falconer Pictures production, in association with Invico Capital Corporation. Producers: Benjamin DeWalt, Kevin DeWalt, Douglas Falconer. Executive producers: David Hackl, Scott Eastwood, Eric Gozlan, Charles Saikaley, Allison Taylor, Jason Brooks, Megan Martin, Chris Wutzke, Danielle Masters, Ben Sachs, James Holt, Michael Benaroya.
  • Crew: Director: David Hackl. Screenplay: Chris Borrelli. Camera: Mark Dobrescu. Editor: Jackie Dzuba. Music: Todd Bryanton.
  • With: Scott Eastwood, Kevin Durand, Mel Gibson, Famke Janssen, Tyrese Gibson, Brenda Bazinet, Ryan Robbins, Brendan Fletcher, Leanne Lapp, Chad Rook, Brock Morgan.

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It takes an appealing cast and gives them unappealing characters, leaving them with the unenviable task of moving the audience to actually care about what we’re seeing. Sadly, we never do.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 16, 2022

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… Surpasses its B-movie classification and delivers entertaining action that strikes the right chord at the right time. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | May 23, 2022

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There isn't an awful lot about David Hackl's Dangerous that feels remotely original, least of all its stale, generic title that can't help but feel tragically ironic when the finish product is one that plays things entirely safe

Full Review | Jan 5, 2022

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It is worth the price of admission just to see how much Scott Eastwood is like his old man.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 24, 2021

[Dangerous is] a silly film that seems made only to purposefully disappear from, not even the cultural memory, but the cultural periphery.

Full Review | Nov 24, 2021

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Dangerous is a perfect storm of bad writing, bad acting, and bad directing. And it's a total celebration of violence.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 9, 2021

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There's clearly a limited budget here, where little depth is given outside the main character, and still Dangerous makes for a thrilling enough escape of entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2021

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Even though it's formulaic, it is hard to get a handle on the plot. It is ridiculous, but also takes itself serious. Good idea in theory, if not practice.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2021

Dangerous is an action movie with a unique premise, but its poor writing, stiff acting, and lack of charm make the 2021 movie borderline unwatchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 6, 2021

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Save for that one confounding scene with Janssen, for the rest of the movie Gibson is alone, taking periodic phone calls from D and handing out absolutely horrible, uninformed, dangerous and irresponsible advice...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 6, 2021

It does its job: a fun action film.

It takes some chutzpah to name your siege thriller Dangerous, and unfortunately, there's not enough of it in the Scott Eastwood actioner of that name.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 5, 2021

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A painfully dull, preposterous and asinine B-movie that sorely lacks thrills, suspense and even a shred of plausibility.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.452433/10 | Nov 5, 2021

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[D]irector David Hackl is unaware of the obvious comedy in this material or is simply incapable of communicating a joke...

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A shambles of a movie, with a plot so contrived yet abstract that you spend each scene asking yourself how it's all supposed to add up.

Full Review | Nov 4, 2021

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Limps to the finish line, steadfastly refusing to offer anything more than the bare minimum for the one-man-army subgenre.

Full Review | Original Score: D- | Nov 3, 2021

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It's strange to say in 2021 that Mel Gibson is the only good part of a movie, but such is the case with Dangerous

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2021

A cheapo bit of action product that has nearly as little personality as its title.

Full Review | Nov 3, 2021

Dangerous betrays the promise of its title by playing things extremely safe.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 3, 2021

The script by Christopher Borrelli hides some quirky twists and turns of phrase in its nasty, bloody mechanics. Director David Hackl's biggest credit is "Saw V," and he remains adept at gross torture and keeping a mystery moving.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 2021

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Summary A reformed sociopath journeys to a remote island to investigate the mystery behind his brother's demise, but soon ends up facing off with more than he bargained for.

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Written By : Christopher Borrelli

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  • November 5, 2021
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Scott Eastwood channels the quiet angst of his father in Dangerous , a new action-thriller from director David Hackl ( Saw V ) that follows in the well-worn tracks of Die Hard . But while Clint’s detached, laconic stranger became a Hollywood hero in the 1960s and 70s, the same archetype has become a volatile psychopath in 2021.

Still, the young Eastwood gives one of his most impressive performances to date as a former Navy SEAL and convicted murderer who turns unlikely hero when a gang of criminals crash his brother’s wake. His character exhibits a genuine lack of empathy for everyone else in the Dangerous , which adds some offbeat appeal to what is otherwise a by-the-numbers, direct-to-streaming action movie.

Eastwood plays Dylan “D” Forrester, a recent parolee who served an 8-year murder sentence and now regulates his violent impulses through regular use of depressants. But when he’s attacked by a mystery man in his apartment, D hacks off his ankle bracelet and takes it on the lam to Guardian Island, off the coast of Seattle, to attend his brother’s funeral.

D soon discovers that he isn’t wanted on his brother’s secret island alongside a small cast of characters gathered for the wake. But before mom Linda ( Brenda Bazinet ) and the local sheriff ( Tyrese Gibson ) can throw him back to the mainland, a group of goons led by D’s old SEAL boss Cole ( Kevin Durand ) show up and start shooting up the place.

The stage is set for familiar Die Hard action territory, with Eastwood’s D going into hiding to take out the bad guys and save his late brother’s friends and family. But the nature of his psychopathic personality – he impulsively slices open an innocent woman’s hand to elicit a scream to distract the baddies – add just a little flair to the proceedings.

Mel Gibson , too, livens things up and injects the sluggish Dangerous with some much-needed energy during brief asides as D’s off-kilter shrink, who he phones up in the midst of the action for advice on culling his murderous impulses. Gibson likely shot his scenes in a day or two at what may as well have been his own home, but displays some real charisma in scenes that could have been quite literally phoned in.

Famke Janssen also shows up as the FBI agent on D’s trail, and shares a single scene with Gibson’s psychiatrist; otherwise, the two are completely isolated during the entire runtime of Dangerous , with Janssen’s agent waiting around in a car on the mainland while the action takes place on the island.

Dangerous is a bit rough around the edges for a film of this caliber – stars like Eastwood and Gibson are involved in the blockbuster Fast & Furious universe, and Gibson and Janssen still have a lot to offer – and while the practical effects work during shootings and stabbings is just fine, sub-par CGI and frenetic editing detract from the action scenes.

But Eastwood’s fun performance goes a long way, and director Hackl generally keeps things moving fast enough to maintain at least mild interest. Dangerous lands with real thud by its perfunctory and sloppily thrown-together ending, but for most of the ride it’s acceptable-if-disposable entertainment.

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