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Shrapnel

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When Sean's (Jason Patric) daughter goes missing on the Mexican border, he teams up with his former Marine partner (Cam Gigandet) to face off against the cartel who kidnapped her.
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Michael Clark Epoch Times 08/12/2023
1/5
Employing every known genre cliché while inventing some new ones, the blunt and to-the-point titled “Shrapnel” makes numerous unforced errors right out of the gate. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 08/08/2023
C
A dull vengeance thriller. Go to Full Review
Jeffrey M. Anderson Common Sense Media 08/05/2023
1/5
With a complete lack of interest in suspense or character, this dull action thriller consists almost entirely of shoot-outs between grim-faced heroes and utterly generic villains. Go to Full Review
Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue 07/28/2023
Brutally violent confrontations add some visceral intensity to this vigilante thriller, which otherwise is overwhelmed by narrative cliches. Go to Full Review
Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com 07/25/2023
C
Buoyed by Patric, who pushes to bring passably authentic emotions to an otherwise generic siege tale, giving as good a performance as one can possibly expect from a B-movie with limited storytelling goals. Go to Full Review
Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 07/25/2023
A tedious, lethargic and forgettable bore. Go to Full Review
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Jo and Co 02/13/2024 Jo and I liked very little. The plot of a father who is an ex Command and the like and has a kidnapped daughter, and goes in search of her has been covered so many times it becomes very boring. This movie has absolutely nothing new. The location is on the border of Mexico and USA. All the Mexican cops are corrupt. There is virtually non stop violence after about twenty mins of the movie. We have our hero, his wife and his daughter (he has two - one is kidnapped along with her friend and being sold for sex) fighting of around ten Mexicans who have machine guns, grenades , ammunition, ey al, being besieged with only a USA cop in a car who does nothing because nothing works except a small hand gun. He disappears quickly whist our hero fights off all these villains, one even wears a hideous mask. With his hysterical wife and daughter he manages to kill most of these ferocious villains and escapes without a scratch with them. He meets up with his friend, the father of the other girl and they go to the super home of the head criminal with his army of thugs. Our now two heroes kills all these thugs and beats the hell out of the boss who reveals where the two young girls are. They rescue them amongst more mayhem, still without a scratch or hair out of place and thankfully the movie ends. The extra star we gave was because it had. happy ending and the movie ended, too. See more Dirk N. @Dirkstradamus Dec 5 If I could choose zero stars, I would. In the first five minutes, I could tell how bad the writing was and everything from there just went downhill. 90 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. See more Mark D Jul 20 This may very well be the worst action movie I have viewed. The pacing, storyline, acting are all just terrible. Nothing wrong with the core idea, but the execution was just not worth the 90ish minutes of film wasted on this rotten tomato. An example of the ridiculous plot line, the hero walks into the office of the primary antagonist boss. Having never seen the man, he asks “do you remember me?” This assumes that somehow, a local broadcast of an interview with the Texas based family was seen by the cartel boss in Mexico. I didn’t not mind unrealistic odds of success by the good guys, but this was just chaos. Wouldn’t watch this one again if I was offered. See more Brend E Dec 23 Thank god people are still making movies to entertain. This movie was fantastic, quite entertaining. You wouldn't even know it existed, as it's a movie that is normal. The "critics" hate it for good reason. It's a normal movie you can just kick your feet up to and be entertained. It breaks the globalist cabal rules, you're not allowed to put eyeballs on the borders at the moment. I'm guessing that's why this movie was so hard to even find. Literally just found it coming into 2025, it's been out for ages, I was screaming for something like this to watch over the agenda driven garbage there is on offer lately. A breath of fresh air. See more Islam M 09/08/2024 There is no effort put in this film. Very cliche and very boring. See more Austin B 07/23/2024 I applaud this movie’s actions scenes and gun play. The producers did a good job with the gun handling and tactical sequences. Not sure why other reviewers are saying the gun play is unrealistic, this movie does a good job with their true to life gun manipulation and shoot outs. A lot better than the hollywoodesque unrealistic shootouts we see in movies like John Wick. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis When Sean's (Jason Patric) daughter goes missing on the Mexican border, he teams up with his former Marine partner (Cam Gigandet) to face off against the cartel who kidnapped her.
Director
William Kaufman
Producer
Elias Axume, Al Bravo, Robert Eagar
Screenwriter
Chad Law, Johnny Martin Walters
Distributor
Saban Films
Production Co
E1 Entertainment, BondIt Media Capital, Premiere Entertainment Group
Rating
R (Violence Throughout|Language|Brief Sexuality)
Genre
Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 28, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 28, 2023
Runtime
1h 29m
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