
Fortunately, his injuries are not serious enough to keep him entirely out of action. Genre fans and other B-movie aficionados likely will feel they got sufficient bang for their bucks after renting or streaming this throwback pastiche.ĭominic Purcell of TV’s “Prison Break” is suitably intimidating when it comes to dishing out swift kicks and snide remarks as David Hendrix, a veteran New York cop who’s temporarily sidelined from his post with a Strategic Response Team after being wounded in the course of duty. Fox, the focus is an intense heroes-under-siege situation.


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While the premise may be a hat-tip to “The Hard Way,” the seriocomic 1991 actioner that featured James Woods as a hardboiled cop forced into a ride-along partnership with movie star Michael J.

Infused with an all-inclusive affection for 1990s action films - not just multiplex spectacle, but the sort of direct-to-video fare that employed the likes of Michael Pare and Wings Hauser - “Gridlocked” is brutally and divertingly efficient as an old-school, high-body-count shoot-’em-up.
