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WHILE writer-director Reg Traviss’s violent low-budget, high action thriller is hardly groundbreaking, it is stuffed with enough four-letter words to guarantee a TV sale.
The opening legend — “Inspired by true events” — is followed by a fast and furious smash-and-grab raid on a shopping centre jewellery store by hoods on motorbikes.
The vivid staging and subsequent action scenes are easily the best part of a film whose emotional drama is driven by the confrontational relationship between two brothers.
Josh Myers leads the motorcycling thugs as Marcus while “sensitive” younger brother Dee — a flaccid performance by Gregg Sulkin — is a street artist hopefully limping along in the footsteps of self-promoting graffiti painters like Banksy.
The brothers’ mutating relationship, catalysed when Marcus lands in hospital after a heist goes wrong, occasionally convinces.
But convincing characterisation takes second place to slickly-staged action and a modicum of suspense when required.
