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Pro God - Pro Gun
USA 2022
produced by Joseph Camilleri for Rebellion Flix
directed by Rene Perez
starring Chase Bloomquist, Ana Isabel Rosso, Joseph Camilleri, Chelsea Evered, Michael Jarrod, Tony Jackson, Olivia Brown, Keely Dervin, Kenneth W. Roberson, Andrew Harris, Tom Hart
story by Rene Perez, screenplay by Rene Perez, Leia Perez, music by The Darkest Machine (= Rene Perez), visual effects by Pratik Singh
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's 1974, and Vietnam veteran Colton visits the home of one of his
fallen comrades, a pastor and his lovely daughter Alma, to return a locket
to the girl. They welcome him with open arms, but soon after, the local
Sheriff drops by on the look-out for a quartet of bankrobbers. Routinely
checking Colton's credentials, he's soon sure Colton's not one of them but
tells him he's not welcome in his town for being dishonourably discharged
from service (for refusing to kill unarmed prisoners, but that's not
revealed until later). Colton leaves, but when Alma opens the locket and
finds a note from her brother inside, she goes after him and pretty much
forces him to have a nice picnic with her. When they return to her home
afterwards, they find the four bankrobbers have taken over the house with
a hostage in tow, have knocked out the pastor, and they're also quick to
overcome Colton and Alma. Now using a ruse, Colton can eventually overcome
one of his captors and get his hands on a weapon, but he's still
outgunned, and the pastor, his daughter and the other hostage are still in
harm's way, and his code of honour won't let him abandon them ... Now
the film's provocative and reactionary title doesn't do it much justice
(and comes across as ironic as in the finale the tide is turned not by a
gun but a harmless BB gun), nor does the tacked on but already outdated
Covid-denial propaganda at the very end, as the film itself is actually a
pretty solid old school B movie, consisting of some nastiness and
well-executed action aplenty carrying a straight-forward storyline, done
in a retro-look that might be a bit overstrained but that does fit the
film's approach as grindhouse hommage very well.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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