Young hit man just out of prison can't seem to get by. Soon he finds himself back in the old life, but things are not quite as they were and he soon finds himself in way over his head with no way out.
Low budget gritty action film has a very real lived in quality. While in no way slick or flashy, this is a film that has a real edge to it. We know looking in that this is not going to end well, but we also know that things are stacked against our hero and this was a road chosen years before.
The action is quite good and jarring. The sequences are shot with a you are there feel and if you didn't know better you could almost swear some of it was real. At the same time the you are there framing of some of the sequences (the same shots are used in cars and elsewhere) makes the film feel slightly awkward. Nothing fatal, but it makes me wonder what director Cris Tapia Marchiori will do with a bigger budget.
Gunman is a small action gem and worth seeing when it plays again at Fantaspoa
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