Wrong Side of Town

2010 "Who Wants To Die First?"
3.8| 1h28m| R| en
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Ex-Navy Seal Bobby Kalinowski lives a quiet, peaceful life as a landscape architect in an LA suburb with his wife Dawn and 16 year old daughter Brianna. Tonight they are invited out for an evening on the town by new neighbors clay and Elise Freeman to a happening club downtown. Little did they know that this would be the start of a life or death ordeal for the group.

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Alicia I love this movie so much
Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Taylor95 You name it, the acting, the stunts, the story...all terrible. I really thought it was a late 70s or early 80s action movie...it was that cheesy...like the blacksploitation films Superfly or Cleopatra Jones, but with white folks and without any redeeming qualities. Wait...I spoke to soon...there was one redeeming quality...Stormy Daniels is in it. The porn star turned activist is probably the best actor in the movie. That tells you as much as you need to know. I gave it one star...because I had to, and because...well, Stormy...
zardoz-13 "Wrong Side of Town" looks like the kind of action-thriller that either Stallone or Seagal could have made in their respective primes. Indeed, this David DeFalco epic appears pretty threadbare, but it wears its basic budget well. This is a formulaic, fist-for-fist, bullet-for-bullet, tough-guy actioneer that doesn't try to be anything more than it is. This virtually plot less narrative possesses a sense of spontaneity sets it apart from most crime melodramas which involve a complicated heist, kidnapping or something else. Everything transpires throughout an evening so it is somewhat unified in terms of time, place, and setting. The action takes place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and this is a fresh break from the usual metropolitan city. The performances may not hoist any eyebrows, but nobody looks like they were reading their dialogue off a cue card off-camera. Rod Van Dam looks more like a wrestler than a Navy SEAL, but then this is a movie. Aside from Van Dam's incongruous casting, writer & director David DeFalco has rounded up some fairly realistic genre types that we haven't seen before that adds some distinction to this minor action piece. Believe it or not, "Wrong Side of Town" has a couple of surprises so that it is not entirely predictable.The plot opens with the villains killing one of their own who informed on them. This scene introduces the chief villain and his lieutenants and provides us some idea about how dangerous they are. Later, the chief villain reprimands his worthless younger brother about not doing anything stupid. The younger brother who never does anything that he is told is a stereotypical character just as the all-powerful crime boss. A stupid, coked-up, low-lifer tries to rape Dawn (Lara Grice of "Soul Men")the wife of war hero Bobby Kalinowski. Bobby (Rod Van Dam of "Bloodmoon") is a former Navy SEAL intervenes in the nick of time. The low-lifer charges him with a knife and the our hero deflects the attack. The low-lifer collides with a sofa and accidentally embeds the blade in himself. Naturally, the restaurant/crime boss Seth (Jerry Katz of "Black Russian") blows his fuse when he learns about this tragedy. He orders his army of goons to kill our hero and he puts a bounty of $100-thousand on our hero. David Bautista has an incredible scene with Ja Rule in the park when argue about the future of our hero. A nitty, gritty, somewhat bare bones thriller with a bare-knuckled sense of humor. Literally, our hero and his wife go to the wrong side of town and have to fight their way back."Wrong Side of Town" is a realistic movie in the terms that everything that happens could actually take place. Although some contrivance occurs in the story, most of what happens looks genuine.
thekyles99 Ya i know yall want to take turns kicking me but you know what? I call a spade a spade and i wasn't bored once through this film. OK if you are a wrestling fan as i am RVD is RVD he really never gets excited about anything even when he won both the world titles for the WWE and the Tna. And Dave Bautista on the other hand i sense acting skills if they were drawn out persay by and acting coach. Besides these guys are cooler then the other side of my pillow. When i first started to see the teaser trailers last year for Stallone's Expendables the hair used to rise on my arms. Then when it came to opening weekend bang we were there and let me tell you the disappointment of 2010. No script and RVD is 10 times the actor Dolph Lundgren will ever be. Every single fan of the expendables i have talked to all say who needs good acting and script they blow stuff up! OK but the same people bulk at this? Hmmmmm? Anyhow enjoy your slagging i take on all commers!
Dante This movie appeals mainly to macho meat head types, but is actually quite funny and entertaining in a B-movie way. If you're a B-move fan like me, you'll probably like it. Otherwise you probably won't. The dialog reminded me of an 80's or early 90's cheesy action movie. It felt like watching something along the lines of kick boxer 2. It's too bad Ja Rule wasn't in the movie longer, because he's actually a pretty talented actor. The fight scenes could have been better, but some of the stunts and the showdown on the bridge were pretty good. They throw some random jokes in here and there which are actually pretty funny and remind the viewer not to take the movie all that seriously. RVD's acting wasn't that great, but it was tolerable. Batista's acting was convincing, and i liked RVD's foxy daughter. overall, the movie is predictable and simple, but entertaining in it's own special way - plenty of cursing, fighting, cheesy action, girls, and boobs. Watch it with a group of friends, some munchies, and a case of beer.

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