"American Badger" began with an intriguing premise of a hit man befriending a woman he has been assigned to monitor and eventually kill. Unfortunately, the characters and relationships were not well developed, and the result was a cliché violent action film derivative of the John Wick series.
The American badger is Dean, an atheist and violent killer, who is engaged in jobs that he acquires on the internet. His newest target is "Velvet," a sex worker in the employ of a pimp-like thug named Vasily.
Dean offers Velvet "freedom," and she seizes the opportunity. But the film is highly repetitive with the video-game shooting sprees.
The film was overly dark and studio-bound with the hand-held camera in the interior scenes. The effect created outdoors was that of an Eastern European city at the height of the Cold War. But this was no John Le Carré spy saga. It was a depressing and overly violent descent into Dante's Inferno.
The American badger is Dean, an atheist and violent killer, who is engaged in jobs that he acquires on the internet. His newest target is "Velvet," a sex worker in the employ of a pimp-like thug named Vasily.
Dean offers Velvet "freedom," and she seizes the opportunity. But the film is highly repetitive with the video-game shooting sprees.
The film was overly dark and studio-bound with the hand-held camera in the interior scenes. The effect created outdoors was that of an Eastern European city at the height of the Cold War. But this was no John Le Carré spy saga. It was a depressing and overly violent descent into Dante's Inferno.