ThiefHott Too much of everything

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

suite92 Frank starts out with a strip joint in Los Angeles. Frank and Eddie branch out in the drug business. As they attempt to expand in the business, they steal drugs from Vincent Camastra, which was a bad idea.DEA agent Maxwell gets into the scene and takes over from the locals, including the surly Detective Jack Reiley. Jack has a cocaine habit, and he rousts minor dealers for money and cocaine.There's a separate, completely bungled thread about Eddie and his straight, non-criminal girlfriend Ashley. She believes his often ridiculous excuses about long absences, strange acquaintances, and odd injuries. Maxwell's on-the-job relationship with Beverly was not skillfully written either. That only served to show Maxwell had an extra motivator for the violent ending: Beverly goes undercover, and her life is at risk.Vincent convinces Frank and Eddie that he is upset, and demands some money in two days. Eddie tells Frank that he wants to back up to just doing his strip club after they do a job for Vincent. Jack researches Frank, then attempts to hold him up for money in his strip club. It's Frank's club, and he and his bouncers beat the nonsense out of him, take his gun, and shoot him through the hand.There is plenty of setup for lots of violence to bring resolution.Will Maxwell and his team get Vincent? Will Frank and Eddie square things up with Vincent? Will Jack get his revenge on Frank? Will Jack's boss at LAPD cut short his career, or will Internal Affairs get him first? ------Scores------Cinematography: 9/10 Nicely shot; only a little bit of shaky camera work.Sound: 9/10 Good.Acting: 2/10 Pretty bad, all around, no real exceptions. A better script would have helped a lot here.Screenplay: 4/10 Has a beginning, middle, and end. The plot threads progressed to more or less logical conclusions. However, a lot of the dialog is almost campy, and motivations were weak.

gpxdlr Dolph, Dolph, Dolph...why did you bother with this? No continuity, the scenes jumps from one locale to another. Your partner insults real DEA agents with his comedic efforts at being an agent. The last scene where the bad guy hot wire a car, can you still do that nowadays? What little we saw of you was okay except the fight scenes where you are noticeably slower now. The rest of the cast were really bad. Most of them couldn't act out of a paper bag. I was in agony throughout but kept watching expecting it to get better. My last film to watch with your name connected with it. just like any film with the Baldwin brothers or Eric Roberts, I know the film is going to s**k!

callanvass I like Dolph Lundgren. He'll never be considered a great actor, but I consider him to be a fun action hero when he has good material to work with. He makes a lot of STD junk these days, but unlike Segal, he at least tries. This one isn't quite as bad as the IMDb rating may indicate. It isn't anything more than mediocre, but considering that I was dreading it, it managed to exceed my expectations a bit with a solid effort. Ambushed's problem isn't a lack of effort, but major pacing issues and the lack of budget to do anything special with the plot. There were a few times in this film that I was actually on the edge of my seat, due to some suspenseful scenes, then it would take me out by becoming way too talky. The inconsistency really does kill it. It also delivers mixed messages. Our lead, Frank (Daniel Bonjour) tries to get the viewer to believe that drug dealing is a great way to make money and get excitement in your life. In the end, the message is "Crime doesn't pay" , which is indeed the correct message, but I felt it was rather arrogant on writer, Augustin's part. Speaking of Daniel Bonjour, his character Frank is a pretentious idiot. He was a smug know it all that I wanted to smack senseless. The fact that he lives to tell about his tale made me even angrier. Dolph Lundgren is NOT the lead. He has a small supporting role. He is relaxed and charismatic in his part, even if he felt a tad wasted in his role. Randy Couture is OK. His dirty cop role had the potential to be riveting, but I felt he handled it with too much angst and over the top anger. Gianni Capaldi is especially irritating as Eddie. His character is out of control, but not in an entertaining way. He got on my nerves too many times. Vinnie Jones seems to play the same part a lot these days. There is nothing here that you haven't witnessed from him before. He says "F*******er" in almost every scene he's in. I used to like Vinnie, but his loud and brash style has worn out its welcome. There is some action, though it is rather underwhelming. There was some shaky camera work that got a bit irritating. The finale is the best thing about the film. It is very intense with plenty of suspense and violence, but it was too little too late for me. Final Thoughts: I'm glad Dolph is beginning to branch out a bit. This movie does have some good things about it, especially that adroit finale, but there are far too many doldrums in between to really make it worth your while. 4/10

M MALIK a new era has started & there are filmmakers out there the audience blames them for bad films but some blame actors should get too like Steven sea-gal,jean Claude van Dame & last is Dolph Lundgren these three guys are my favorite action heroes but they are making bad films,they produce some or choose a bad movie only for money,if they want they can make a good script themselves & stop releasing movies for 2 years make a big budget good film.but no this direct to DVD cinema is ruining the art i say.the plot of this film there is no way i am telling you its written go read yourself,its same & done many times before some guy was doing good & some guy ripped someone off or cheated or kill or smuggle or all the dictionary of overused words you will find here or vise versa.critics like a movie OK who are critics let me tell you they are either journalists having a job or they are very rich people with a lot of money & time they buy a lot of discs & watch tons of movies in theaters a regular guy don't have this much money.the cast oh please forget it its only Dolph Lundgren appearing in c grade films after universal soldier series.last year the expendables 2 came out which was a pretty bad movie from Stallone who is the biggest action hero in the world,it was a grade embarrassment specially for Jcvd fans.these people are talking audience for granted otherwise people will boycott them if this continues.there is no rush in this film its just a hush better watch rush hour films then this senseless action flick.My Rating For Ambushed 2013 is 1/10 another awful film added into Dolph's Career.Skipp it