Blackout

Blackout

A man wakes in a hospital with no memory, and quickly finds himself on the run in a locked down hospital with the Cartel on his tail.

  • Released: 2022-10-12
  • Runtime: 91 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Thrillers
  • Stars: Josh Duhamel, Abbie Cornish, Omar Chaparro, Nick Nolte, Lou Ferrigno Jr., Bárbara de Regil, Robert Dobson, Pedro López, Edison Ruiz, Jero Medina
  • Director: Sam Macaroni
 Comments
  • tearitdownner - 13 January 2024
    Aweful and mundane
    Any movie Abbey Cornish is in his crap and Nick Nolte. He should've stayed in bed. He looks like he just got out of bed to do the part and then he went back to bed. Probably guy is toast I mean he's finished like why would you resurrect the dead, unless he changes his name to Lazarus, but even that won't help us acting career anymore, no prem is stupid I could've been a good show with the right actors but the bad guys I liked better than any of the other people in the show as I said Nolte is washed up. I mean literally he looks like a homeless dude they picked off the street an angry homeless guy.
  • kosmasp - 11 January 2023
    John Amnesia-Wick
    No pun intended - also you can't really compare Duhamel with Reeves. Neither the actors themselves nor the characters. That being said, the movie is action packed - and while the trailer did give away many funny and other scenes, it still has enough to keep you at the edge of your seat.

    Nick Nolte is not what he once was .. he still has quite the gravitas. He really is good - and he really is able to convey the gray areas of his character(s). Now that doesn't mean that you won't be able to figure out who is who ... and that may make you wonder if our main character has more problems than memory loss ... just try to suspend your disbelief and watch this open minded.

    Not really great, but not really that bad either. And Duhamel is able to fill in the action role - he is believable!
  • bowlcoach-11358 - 9 November 2022
    OMG - terrible
    The only really good scene was the mohawk guy in the hospital kitchen. A typical but lengthy fight scene. The early part, being drugged up, yet still able to fight - what a joke. Good thing I didn't have to pay to see this movie. And Nick Nolte! I thought he was dead. He has passed his acting days. Low budget movie about the drug cartel and nothing more. "Who am I"? DEA or not? And how about the Australian actress in her fight scene? Really her or a stunt double? I did manage to stick with the entire movie but it was difficult. Didn't really require much in the way of finding locations from which to shoot either. How dull!!
  • cmconnexion - 25 October 2022
    "Discount Josh Brolin" Doing His Best Frank Grillo Impersonation
    After the first four minutes, I was so hoping this movie would get better. It didn't. Not long later, there was a hospital hallway shootout between our "hero" and two henchmen. All were brandishing automatic weapons. At least ten metres apart and around a hundred rounds shot off, it was as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, yet not one person was hit. It's as if these characters were failed and were dishonourably discharged from the "Stormtrooper Academy of Sh!tty Shooting." This bonehead shootout was undercut by the sniper shootout on the roof, and taking the top spot for "hitting everything but your target."

    A poorly structured film with flashbacks at the most inopportune moments further stilted an already fractured narrative. It was almost as if the shooting script was the first draft. There was seldomly an action scene without gratuitous slow-motion shots- as if the director was trying to squeeze his money's worth from the slow-motion camera rental.

    There is no reason a low budget film should be of such low quality, even though there was some decent production value in this movie. Practical effects were decent even though the rubber tips on discharged cartridges were clearly visible thanks to the slow-motion camera. The CGI bullet hits were as horrendous as the free software from "Sony Vegas."

    I so wanted this movie to be better. Unfortunately, it was a Bollywood quality Jason Bourne flick with a Pulp Fiction briefcase MacGuffin stolen by a "discount Josh Brolin" doing his best Frank Grillo impersonation. Nick Nolte wheezed through his lines as if he was one cigarette away from keeling over and dying of emphysema. A lot of cliché, two dimensional villains used to fill in the gaps, pad the run time, and give the director a few more opportunities to use that "slow-mo" camera.

    Lucky for me, it only went for around ninety minutes, though unfortunately for me, it's ninety minutes of my life I will never get back.
  • jaffleoz - 20 October 2022
    The only thing good about this is that it is short
    But still painful! Wow - just horrible acting, overdone music, stupid, stupid plot apart from some minor parts that were interesting...

    Is Abbie Cornish really that hard up that she has to do this work?

    And Nick Nolte - speaking so slowly the other actors literally had to stand there motionless for FOREVER to wait for his lines to come out - ridiculous to think an 80yo would still be working in the DEA LOL.

    Not bad if you like mindless violence and a lead that is sort of indestructible in the John Wick kinda way, but not as cool...

    Not sure why I have invested so much time in writing this - the movie really wasn't worth it lol.