Attention:
1) Possible spoilers.
2) This is the translation of a post that I've published the Saturday right here on Steemit. If you're a Spanish native speaker or a Spanish learner, you can click here to read the Spanish version.
What would happen if some states from the USA rebel again? The obvious answer is a civil war, but a civil war where the people is left by the government and with no more guns than sticks and some fire guns, offering fight against the "insurgents".
Actually, that's the premise of Cary Murnion and Jonathan Millott's film Bushwick. A premise that, at a glance, seems very interesting... But it evidences at the end that is poorly developed.
I mean, at the beginning of the film we see a girl named Lucy (Britanny Snow) leaving the subway with her boyfriend José; both looked pretty cute, very naive and so inlove, both going to her family's home in order to make official their relationship. Nevertheless, in two minutes happens a strong explosion which kills the poor José and leaves Lucy alone. The girls looks for help without a clue of what's going on; in the way she was about to be raped by two guys, but Stupe (Dave Bautista) came at her rescue. From that moment, both will join forces in order to reaches at their homes and get their loved ones out of the hurricane's eye.
During the way to them, Lucy and Stupe find chaos; both, in fact, are looking for an answer about what's the possible reason of the guys in black's killing every helpless citizen. The answer was finally given by one of them: Texas and other southern states want to separate from the USA.
And what a way to achieve it by taking New York city, killing defenseless people... Or not so helpless but willing to fight for their home.
As I mentioned above, the premise is interesting because it rethinks a historical fact that happened from 1861 to 1865, adapting it to the modern times with some motives not so modern (racism and separatism) and exposing a popular neighborhood as a battle ground. But it ends there.
I don't know if the low budget for the creation of the film or the laziness of the screenwriters of not polishing the script and the characters in a decent way had to do with, but I felt that the movie itself could be very better if they would have worked more on the script. I mean, there are low budget movies which scripts are jewels, so why this movie in particular couldn't do it having a very good idea like this one?
Should I recommend it? Honestly, I would but for pure entertainment on a weekend... Or just teasing the mother in law.
P.S: If I were Batista (former nickname of David Bautista in the WWE) or I fire my agent or I change of genre. I'm not saying that he's a bad actor, but I think that he most step aside of the "action heroe" figure and explore another genres.
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Consulted sources
- "American Civil War", on Wikipedia.
- "Bushwick", on FilmAffinity.
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