Title: Bullet
Director: Nick Lyon
Starring: Danny Trejo, Jonathan Banks, Torsten Voges, Eve Mauro
Cert: 15
Length: 87 minutes
This Time They Messed with the Wrong Guy
Despite being harshly reviewed elsewhere this film starring Danny Trejo is actually a decent flick. As a leading man in this sort of action film Trejo is more convincing (these days) than his contemporaries such as Schwarzenegger and Stallone. They may have been the two biggest action stars in the world, but sadly as they have aged and taken time away from movies they have become less convincing actors, in less than impressive films. Trejo on the other hand still looks like he could do some damage in a fight, not a lot perhaps but he looks like he’d still fight dirty and get the job done.
In Bullet, Trejo stars as Frank 'Bullet' Marasco, a tough cop who breaks the rules to track down and bring to justice a criminal who has taken Marasco’s young grandson hostage in an attempt to save his own son (jailed years earlier by Marasco) from execution on death row.
The rest of the cast are not too well known and to be fair they are just there to make Trejo looks good in a film that is clearly a one man show - this is a vehicle for Trejo. Trejo, best known in recent years for his Machete films is a man who says he never expected to get out of jail, in real life. But since doing so he has created himself a genuine film career playing bad guys and good guys alike with a certain panache.
The story is one dimensional and so are most of the characters but the direction is slick and the pace is quick. There is significantly less violence than in the Machete films, but this will still appeal to action fans. At 87 minutes it isn’t overlong and it held my attention from start to finish. It’s a short, not-so-sweet, revenger that still holds more interest for me than a movie that has Liam Neeson running around trying to find and kill people who’ve wronged him.
It only takes one Bullet
