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Backtrace

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Backtrace

R

Released Dec 14, 2018

1h 27m

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, MacDonald develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. Following his seventh year of incarceration, he is coerced by an inmate and a ward doctor to break out of prison, and he's injected with a serum that forces him to relive the life he's forgotten. MacDonald must now elude a local detective, a toughened FBI agent, and the drug's dangerous side effects to recover the stolen money.

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

A film so supernaturally boring that light bends when passing its dense outer mantle.

Rated: 1/5

Mar 6, 2021

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

The whole dreary thing looks as if it was put through an Instagram filter called Rotgut that makes everything look like it was soaked in weak coffee and bile.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 2, 2021

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Joe Leydon

Variety

Matthew Modine is outstanding as an amnesia-stricken bank robber in Brian A. Miller's VOD-centric thriller.

Dec 14, 2018

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Monique Jones

Common Sense Media

Backtrace is a bare-bones action movie. It follows the beat-by-beat expectations of movies in the genre, squandering the intriguing potential of a plot about an experimental drug.

Rated: 1/5

Jul 1, 2022

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Mabel Salinas

Cine Premiere

After the first act, Backtrace turns into a needlessly complicated story where the characters are like carton. [Full Review in Spanish]

Rated: .5/5

Mar 22, 2019

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Kevin L. Lee

Film Inquiry

It is no exaggeration to say that Backtrace was the cinematic equivalent of a headache. It's too ridiculous and underwritten to be a full-fledged crime thriller and too self-serious to be an enjoyable B-movie.

Jan 16, 2019

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Rich M

Hard to bear watching. Stallone was signed for name recognition but probably not paid much because he doesn’t get much screen time. Poorly scripted half psychological thriller half shoot em up. The gunplay is comical, way too many rounds for the weapons and just wholly unbelievable and unrealistic, with a cheesy and predictable and also unrealistic ending. I was cleaning a fish tank during it or would have stopped watching. Find something else.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/04/24

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Jane D

An exceptionally bad film in EVERY aspect. If you value your time and happiness at all please avoid this headache and anger inducing fecal matter on celluloid.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/06/24

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11/26/23

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Murray R

Ok it started out OK, but after watching each shooting scene with hundreds of shots fired, you would think at least hit something. These characters qualify as storm troopers. The script was to easy to follow. Stallone was not the main character of the movie. The shooting scenes became comical

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

11/18/23

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A P

This movie makes me wish I had amnesia

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/04/23

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John B

Fairly good story, but kind of clunky as we don't really get to know the characters or care much about them including Stallone.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/01/23

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After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, MacDonald develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. Following his seventh year of incarceration, he is coerced by an inmate and a ward doctor to break out of prison, and he's injected with a serum that forces him to relive the life he's forgotten. MacDonald must now elude a local detective, a toughened FBI agent, and the drug's dangerous side effects to recover the stolen money.

Director: Brian A. Miller
Producer: Randall Emmett, George Furla, Mark Stewart
Screenwriter: Michael Maples
Distributor: Lionsgate Premiere
Production Co: Happinet, Diamond Films, Grindstone Entertainment Group, Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films, Lionsgate, Dreamscape Productions
Rating: R (Violence and Some Language)
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 14, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 19, 2019
Runtime: 1h 27m

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