Black Site

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Black Site

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Released May 3, 2022

1h 39m

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Mystery & Thriller

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CIA Agent Abby Trent (Michelle Monaghan) manages an underground black site facility that imprisons dangerous and high-risk detainees. Days before Abby's reassignment to a new post, Special Ops bring in a high-value target at the top of every Most Wanted list -- codename: Hatchet (Jason Clarke). Hatchet is notorious for killing his enemies in a gruesome manner, and for Abby, his capture is personal. Determined to avenge her husband's death at the hands of Hatchet, Abby's plan is soon thrown into chaos once Hatchet escapes and begins a bloody game of murdering the site officers --one-by-one. While Abby and the team hunt him down, she quickly discovers that there are moles within the ranks compromising the mission. With time running out, Abby doubts everyone around her, begging the question who can she really trust?

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

Perhaps the most depressing thing about Sophia Banks’s “Black Site” — a dreary, underwritten thriller — is an ending that suggests a sequel might already be in the works.

May 3, 2022

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Monique Jones

Common Sense Media

While the film succeeds in its action elements, it fails when it comes to portraying characters of color. Every character of color is treated as fodder and killed off...

Rated: 3/5

Jun 2, 2022

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Daniel Gorman

In Review Online

[Black Site is] a pretty okay movie that mostly succeeds in spite of some obvious limitations.

May 20, 2022

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

While downplaying the sociopolitical complexities that form its backdrop, the film squanders a promising start with dwindling narrative urgency in the second half.

May 4, 2022

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Johnny Loftus

Decider

Driven by a strong lead performance from Michelle Monaghan, Black Site features some bloody action movie thrills as its titular subterranean facility is torn apart by Jason Clarke’s one man terrorist army.

May 4, 2022

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Peter Gray

Cinefied

Black Site ends up a black hole of stereotypical nonsense that cant even muster emotional investment or intentionally humorous additives to keep its audience on hand

Apr 27, 2022

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JP B

I waited until the Director's Cut came out and I'm grateful I did. I loved the performances and stunts, the action was cool and Jason as "Hatchet" had me wondering who was going to end up alive by the end. Great for a Friday night.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/12/23

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Punk4evr !

Its like amature hour at the cia recruitment center! For a "Black Site", all the persons stationed there, seem to have had about a 1 hour course at best! They are the worst of the worst for military persons, all looking out for themselves, and showing zero coherence in organized manuvers. You would expect only the best at such a installation, but instead only examples of the worst. An alarm at such a place should send all personnel into hyperactive vigilance! its not the daycare! But now... all the "fortified" act like its a joke, and over sensationalized. Sure, black sites have "situations every day, i'm sure". There is no sembelance of any coordinated efforts at all, at doing what's right. No one is acting in national interests, and as others have mentioned, it seems its all for one, and no one for all. Its so hard to watch and try to understand any rational thinking at all. It's just basically nonsensical mess; everyone is acting of their own accord and fallback contingencies don't exist. Clearly, whoever made up this story just went with what they have seen on other tv shows to base how professional the characters should be and dispensed with what should have been intensely trained professionals all together. Probably best just not to watch, but if you want a good example of how to ruin something that had potential? This is a fine example of what not to do.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/18/23

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Jelisije J

A action movie with an interesting plot, but the execution of said plot was just terrible.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

06/26/23

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Sonny A

Horrible! Save yourself the time and disappointment of watching this mess. The screenplay, the director and production are just awful and the whole thing is boring. Good actors trying to make a terrible movie work but sadly it still fails on all fronts. I couldn't even get to the end of it because I lost interest 10 mins in and I have sat through a lot of bad movies having invested time into them, it was that bad I couldn't bear through it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/25/23

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Roger L

No actors and a story without sense and logic.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/20/23

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Morten J

All rationel thinking is gone… So many good actors, yet a shitty production.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/23/23

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CIA Agent Abby Trent (Michelle Monaghan) manages an underground black site facility that imprisons dangerous and high-risk detainees. Days before Abby's reassignment to a new post, Special Ops bring in a high-value target at the top of every Most Wanted list -- codename: Hatchet (Jason Clarke). Hatchet is notorious for killing his enemies in a gruesome manner, and for Abby, his capture is personal. Determined to avenge her husband's death at the hands of Hatchet, Abby's plan is soon thrown into chaos once Hatchet escapes and begins a bloody game of murdering the site officers --one-by-one. While Abby and the team hunt him down, she quickly discovers that there are moles within the ranks compromising the mission. With time running out, Abby doubts everyone around her, begging the question who can she really trust?

Director: Sophia Banks
Producer: Todd Fellman, Jonathan Fuhrman, Mike Gabrawy, Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, Craig McMahon, Jason Clarke
Screenwriter: John Collee, Jinder Ho
Distributor: Vertical Entertainment
Production Co: MEP Capital, Asbury Park Productions, Elevate Production Finance, Story Bridge Films
Rating: R (Strong/Bloody Violence|Language Throughout)
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 3, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 1h 39m

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