Sam Firstenberg
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The whole thing rather reminded me of similar stripped-down thrillers from the ‘70s and ‘80s, films like John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 and Sam Firstenberg’s Avenging Force, and to my mind this is a giant positive.
The film’s Skizm villains feel like they’re right out of The Running Man or Avenging Force and that’s a good thing, trust me.
It’s while running an “American Ninja”-esque obstacle course shirtless to prove his lifeguarding chops that many of Efron’s talents take center stage.
But Barinholtz’s goofball shtick quickly becomes tiresome, Bateman is no more than eye candy for a girls’ night out, Jaenada might have stepped in from an old Cannon “American Ninja” movie, and Sykes does her usual tough-broad routine without much effect.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
Directed by Nia DaCosta
influenced by Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
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…or Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo…