Hackman manages to bring the laughs as the Colin Farrell-esque actor completely out of his depth, whilst adopted Aussie Purcell has been doing these kinds of films for so long that he can play a character like Hendrix whilst comatose. Gridlocked wants to be a big hunk of old fashioned solid entertainment, and it doesn’t pretend to be anything else.
And yes, he does utter that line about how his age happens to hinder his ability to do stuff. Also dropping in to say hello is Danny Glover as the close-to-retirement security guard who first alerts Purcell to danger. Faceless except for Vinnie Jones, who pops up for a cameo as the right hand man to Lang. Trish is a member of a SWAT team that take on a team of mercenaries who have seized the compound in. Similar to Olympus Has Fallen, Purcell runs around the SRT camp breaking the necks of faceless intruders. The fact that the almost absurd scene is played entirely straight without a single wink at the camera gives you an idea of the kind of film that you’re in for. Hendrix is a former strategic response team member, and when the two men go to visit his old training camp, they find themselves caught in a hostage situation when armed men, led by Stephen Lang, turn up looking for a McGuffin held in the SRT camp’s basement.ĭuring a key scene in Gridlocked, a character must be water boarded with urine in order to save his life. In this Canadian action film from Allan Unger, Dominic Purcell plays David Hendrix, an uncompromising cop forced to let spoilt actor, Brody Walker (Cody Hackman), ride along with him in lieu of the latter’s recent drink-driving misdemeanours.
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