Standoff (2016)
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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.
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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
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
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.
