Did not want to dislike '6 Ways to Die'. It was again not a bad, if not new, premise and Vinnie Jones has given alright performances in the past. It had potential to work, and would have done with effort being obvious and like those in front of and behind the camera had their hearts in it.
Unlike most other films starring or featuring Jones recently, '6 Ways to Die' did show effort. It just did it badly. Have seen worse films, recently and ever, but that doesn't stop '6 Ways to Die' from being a very poor film with no redeeming traits and a lot of things done absolutely terribly. There is not much to add to what has been said very well already and the review is at the risk of repeating what has been said. Just for the record, '6 Ways to Die' was watched with an open mind and not without the intent or want to dislike, let alone hate, the film, quite the contrary.
'6 Ways to Die' has very little going for it, but it deserves some credit for actually trying and putting some effort in.
The setting is okay and the thing that comes off least badly.
Sadly, it is a case of that '6 Ways to Die' tries too hard. The story has too many strands and such and does nothing with any of them, making the storytelling come over as over-complicated and sometimes incomprehensible with no development to any of them whatsoever. The archetypal ciphers passing for characters are very difficult to care for or endear to, with no attempt at development and with too little personality or likeability. Some of them even are unnecessary.
Moreover, the script is verbose, awkward-sounding and very pompous. This self-indulgence is similarly seen from start to finish in the photography and editing, which also tend to be repetitive. The music is forgettable at best and the acting is not really worth mentioning with the all-round badly used (most under-utilised and some pointless, especially a completely wasted Vivica A. Fox) cast giving performances completely lacking in vigour or intensity. Jones is one of the biggest examples of this. Michael Rene Walton comes off best.
Overall, very bad. 2/10 Bethany Cox
6 Ways to Die
2015
Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
6 Ways to Die
2015
Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Keywords: drug cartel
Plot summary
Sonny "Sundown" Garcia is the top North American narcotics distributor for the Colombian cartels. He has created the most efficient and productive distribution pipeline since the era of the Cocaine Cowboys. John Doe is a man of mystery. His identity and history are unknown. All we know is that he wants Sundown dead and six feet under. But before he does so, he wants to make Sundown feel every thing that he felt, suffer every thing that he suffered and lose everything that he lost. To exact his revenge, John Doe hires 6 contractors from the criminal underworld with individual specialties, to execute his plan. John wants 6 things taken from Sundown: his freedom, his love, his reputation, his most valuable possession, his money and finally, his life. Sundown's life is quickly and efficiently turned to a living hell. His bank account is wiped clean. His wife disappears. His loyalties are put to the test. Systematically, Sundown's entire life is being wiped out, ending with his successful assassination. This is an enemy the type of which 'Sundown' has never experienced.
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No time to die
IT'S NOT BUSINESS. IT'S PERSONAL.
John Doe (Vinnie Jones) wants to kill Sonny 'Sundown' Garcia (Michael Rene Walton) for personal reasons. He appears to have unlimited resources after spending 20 years in a Mexican prison. Sonny gets killed early in the film and then the rest is told as flashbacks and flashbacks within flashbacks making the time line a bit confusing with all the "one week earlier" signs that introduce every new segment.
The plot weaves itself with flashbacks up until the twist ending which is narrated to us. There were too many action scenes that were boring. Vinnie Jones, our head liner, spends the entire action film sitting in the drivers seat of a car talking to people, hiring them to do specific jobs leading up to the twist which was anti-climatic because of the narration.
Guide: F-bomb. Brief sex. No nudity.
Go watch something else..
Mystery man John Doe wants 6 things taken from the top North American narcotics distributor Sunny "Sundown" Garcia: his freedom, his love, his reputation, his most valuable possession, his money and his life. 6 Ways to Die is your typical bad straight to DVD low budget action movie with some nice actors getting a paycheck and they literally killed Tom Sizemore in the first 3 goddamn minutes of the movie Vinnie Jones and Vivica A. Fox are also in this movie for some unknown reason and every time that someone gets shot there's no blood which is difficult for me and probably everyone else to understand how someone died and where they got shot. This is a movie straight to the garbage bin for sure!!