Gage is an interesting character, made so my Carano, yet she’s hampered by a derivative screenplay and a film with zero pulse, running empty on all the same beats we’ve seen time and time again. The problems starts with Jackson, who is simply not at all villainous enough, with the film corralling him into obvious bad guy tropes, including a fascination with a Venezuelan military and political leader, a penchant for smarmy dialogue, a gaggle of brawny henchmen, and well, you get the picture. Certainly Howitt, working off a screenplay by Kevin Leeson and Bobby Mort can’t be blamed for following the formula, however, the filmmakers miss the opportunity to do anything even slightly imaginative. So it is for Gage, who befriends the battered Melena ( Stephanie Bennett), Jackson’s abused girlfriend, a young woman who reminds her of someone very important as she gets closer to the mark. There’s always a nasty guy like Jackson in charge who somehow did something awful bad to our hero, and it’s just a matter of time and hurdles until the big confrontation finds them mano a mano. The trouble with movies like this is that they tend to fall into the same rut, revenge the motivation. Disguised as a criminal she recently took down, she infiltrates the town and saddles up to Jackson, with a lot more than just collecting bounty on her mind. One day, she learns of a village stuffed with seedy types and run by a baddie named Thomas Jackson ( Ryan Robbins), he with a big bounty on his head. Everyone else rides horses (wearing masks). In all this is Gage (Carano), a bounty hunter tracking down ‘belchers’, people who still drive what’s left of gas-powered vehicles, causing further damage to the environment. They trade in pills that make water potable and silver powder used in breathing masks. Pockets of humanity cling to life, territories re-establishing a sense of civilization akin to the old American west. It’s the near future and most of the population has been wiped out by a damaged atmosphere, flooding and general climate-related mayhem. With a loose set up, our modern day catch-all villain – global warming – up and decides to reset the world. Knowing (2009): A Closer Look at Learning The Numbers
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