Synopsis
A troubled veteran gets a chance at redemption by protecting a girl from an assassin after she witnesses a murder. Holding a shotgun with a single shell, he engages in physical and psychological warfare in a desperate fight for the girl's life.
Votre Filmothèque
Cast
- Thomas JaneCarter
- Laurence FishburneSade
- Jim WatsonOfficer Baker
- Ella BallentineBird
- Joanna DouglasMara
- Ted AthertonThe Priest (as Tim Atherton)
- Laura de CarteretWoman
- John TenchRoger
- Darcy RoyBodyguard
- J.J. DimicheleSam
Recommandations
- 60
Village Voice
Standoff holds up as a welcome alternative to its more strident brethren. - 50
Slant Magazine
Standoff isn’t quite inspired, but it coasts on unexpected modesty of professionalism. - 38
Movie Nation
Writer-director Adam Alleca is better at the keyboard, cooking up chewy tough talk, than behind the camera. The shootout stuff is only passably staged, and the blood-bursts (not his fault…entirely) look digitally added, in some places. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Unfortunately in the hands of writer-director Adam Alecca, this overly talky, slackly executed game of cat-and-mouse comes off as cheesy rather than chilling. - 25
RogerEbert.com
It is all very terribly tiresome.
