Wrong Side of Town

Plot synopsis:
Bobby Kalinowski (Rob Van Dam), is a former Navy Seal enjoys a peaceful life as a landscape architect in Louisiana with his family. After receiving an invitation from new neighbors Clay Freeman (Edrick Browne) and Elise Freeman (Ava Santana), they go out for a night on the town to a famous club. The evening soon takes a turn for the worse when Bobby gets into a conflict with one of the club owners, named Ethan Bordas (Ross Britz). In the middle of the conflict, Ethan accidentally falls and is stabbed by his own knife, while fighting with Bobby, who was defending his wife.
Seeking revenge, Ethan's father Seth Bordas (Jerry Katz), previously thought to be his older brother, puts a $100,000 bounty on Bobby's head. Also making matters difficult, Bobby is unable to receive help from the law, for Seth has Clay Freeman, and a corrupt police sergeant, working for him. Now Bobby must survive and escape Louisiana while being hunted by criminals, corrupt law, and many others in the city. To protect his family and neighbors, Bobby decides to separate himself from them and goes to his Navy Seal colleague Big Ronnie (David Bautista) (or known as B.R.) for help. B.R. initially refuses, deciding to take the bounty, but later changes his mind and helps Bobby. Seth targets Bobby’s family and kidnaps his 16-year-old daughter Brianna (Brooke Frost). However, Bobby ends up fighting and killing Seth and his henchmen with B.R.'s help, and rescues his daughter.

Tags: revenge

Review:
First off, I'm extremely embarrassed to say I actually took the time to watch this movie.
As I was watching this absolutely ridiculous and cliché drenched mess I kept saying to myself "surely a teenager made this movie!" There's no other possible answer for this horrific story, acting, everything, you name it!If I am able to save at least one poor soul out there the agony I've endured then I feel I've done my job here trying to help out mankind at least a bit.
It doesn't matter if it's free on cable, pirated, you're drunk, stoned, or all of the above, it's not worth it!!!If you absolutely must, then make sure someone pays you handsomely first.Bottom line, if you're in the mood for a decent action flick, see anything else, even if you've already seen it 100 times!.
but i thought the world should know this: the acting is one thing, but if the editing is bad - and i mean really 'bad' - how worse can it be?watch it yourself with an eye on the little details..
For who knows how long, Lionsgate has been giving the world the best (well, usually worst or most mediocre) in straight to DVD Horror, Action and general Exploitation.
David (the absolutely abysmal "Last House on the Left" rip off "Chaos") Defalco now gets into this market with "Wrong Side of Town", a really bad but at least laughable blend of Wrestlesploitation (B-Movie with a Professional Wrestler(s)) and Rapsploitation (B-Movie with a Rapper(s).) Bobby Kalinowsky (Rob Van Dam) is living a peaceful life with his wife and daughter, when they are invited to a night club run by a corrupt crime lord named Seth (Jerry Katz.) When his wife is nearly raped by Seth's coked up younger brother, Bobby comes in to save to day-and inadvertently kills the guy.
He knows he can't go at it alone though, so he turns to his old buddy Big Ronnie (Dave Bautista) for help.First thing's first: "Wrong Side of Town" is not anywhere near as bad as DeFalco's prior movie "Chaos", as it's nowhere near as downbeat or ugly as that film.
It's still an inept exercise though, with atrocious acting (more on that in the next paragraph), poorly choreographed action scenes, poor direction, heavily advertised actors not getting particularly huge roles (Ja Rule is barely in it, and probably wondering what the hell happened to his career in that he has ended up having a small role in a terrible Straight to DVD movie from the director of "Chaos", and Bautista, despite getting top billing, is barely in the thing), bad editing, and so much more.
Sure, you can throw in all the nudity (including a cameo from porn star Stormy Daniels) and action you can, but that doesn't make the movie good.And back to the acting.
Nobody in this movie can act worth a damn-especially star Rob Van Dam, who acts stiff and boring to the point that you wonder if he's an inanimate object and not a living being.
In fact, the terrible acting ends up becoming the sole saving grace of this movie, as it becomes hilarious.
It's almost worth cherishing in that respect.Apart from it's casting, there is no real distinguishing "Wrong Side of Town" from any other bad Straight to DVD action movie from Lionsgate.
That out of the way, if sh!%%y Straight to DVD action movies are your thing, and if you want a good laugh out of cinematic ineptitude, then by all means watch this..
It's too bad Ja Rule wasn't in the movie longer, because he's actually a pretty talented actor.
Batista's acting was convincing, and i liked RVD's foxy daughter.
overall, the movie is predictable and simple, but entertaining in it's own special way - plenty of cursing, fighting, cheesy action, girls, and boobs.
In Wrong Side of Town (a film that deserves some kind of award for having the most bogus and misleading DVD artwork in recent memory) ex-WWE wrestler Rob Van Dam plays a family man who gets in hot water with a vengeful crime boss, and has to battle his way out of it.
For a start, the DVD cover features prominently WWE big gun David 'Batista' Bautista, but as Van Dam's old Navy buddy, he only turns up in a couple of scenes, and majestically unconvincing ones they are at that.
Mind you, even Bautista has more screen presence and charisma that the woeful RVD, who, in terms of acting ability, makes his nearly-namesake Jean-Claude Van Damme (Van Dam originally adopted the ring name because he vaguely resembles the 'Muscles from Brussels') look like Robert Mitchum by comparison.
Featuring a shockingly amateurish script, softly-softly fight scenes that just don't cut it, and lots of appalling acting (even from the non-wrestlers), this film sucks on every level.
It's the kind of film in which, after beating up a load of street trash, one ex-military tough guy says to another 'Just like old times...' It's also full of odd gambits that left me scratching my head, like the bizarre James Bond-inspired opening credits, a lingering shot of topless adult film star Stormy Daniels, and rapper Ja Rule turning up in a cameo part that should have led him to fire his agent; any day-player could have took the small role of the generic dirtbag 'gangsta' he plays here.
If you like Terminator, Avatar or Back to the future, don't even watch this movie, because the production is very basic and you will be VERY upset.
This movie is recommended for:1- Wrestling Fans (RVD, Batista and Viscera are on the movie!) 2- B Movie Lovers If you liked Be kind Rewind, The wrestler or the maid, this movie is for you!
Poor acting all the way throughout, mediocre action sequences, and to much of an original plot.If you find yourself extremely bored and with absolutely nothing to do then watch this.Too many wrestlers who want to be actors nowadays and this film does nothing for the acting of Rob Van Dam or Dave Bautista.Less than thrilling in it's sequence of movement.
Guessing Bruce Willis turned this script down, in favor of Death Wish, but,, Van Dam is a likable guy~!~!.
I really thought it was a late 70s or early 80s action movie...it was that cheesy...like the blacksploitation films Superfly or Cleopatra Jones, but with white folks and without any redeeming qualities.
The porn star turned activist is probably the best actor in the movie.
As an actor Rob Van Dam makes a great wrestlerAs an action movie this makes a great comedy His enthusiasm in his delivery of the most basic of dialogue is hilarious.
Bautista, in his first acting gig, looks embarrassed like he can tell how bad the end product is going to look.
Van Dam plows on with the unbridled enthusiasm of a child as the movie lurches from bad to worse.
Watch for the laughs Take a shot every time Van Dam shakes his head in confusion.
You will be disappointed if you watch it for any other reason than if you are doing an essay on bad films.
RVD wearing sun glass in the night time, he was shot and fighting like nothing happen, his bullet was right up the top and he took himself out, and he dint even fell that, then he is on his way to fight the bad guys..(he look pathetic ) the most funny part, look for those 2 big guys bikers with goatee, the director could has get some one who is more fit in that role.
I would love to write more but I just don't want to waist my time, I already did one half hour on movie and 30 min comments and making my account.
His not rob van dam is the main character but Batista is made to look more powerful which didn't work for me.
Van Damme's younger brother (in name only) is a bonafied action star, and I hope he continues to make movies.
Fellow wrestler Rob Van Dam is actually the hero and the fact that the distributors had such a lack of faith in his pulling power does not bode well.
When I saw that Dave Batista & Rob van Dam are actors in this movie I could already say what's going to happen.
Making films like this makes no sense at all to me, as the movie wasn't good action either.
I mean, the story is simple, there are like no real effects, the actors are just few wrestlers, and it is just some stupid boring action, who the hell would ever want to watch that, huh???.
Going into this movie I expected the worst, but what I got out of "The Wrong Side of Town" was a surprisingly "ok" Action film, I would like to have other words to describe it but "ok" is the best for it.Pros.The script and story was good, and had me invested for its full running time.Direction and some Acting was good, especially Dave Bautista, he and his character were surprisingly funny and likable.Cons.The Editing was horrendous, with wrong angles being chosen, repetitious shots being used and just generally cutting at the wrong times.
Some of this could be blamed on the script or direction but really it was nothing that editing couldn't fix or handle.Rob Van Dam's character was mediocre and although I didn't much the cliché' ex-military person character, his delivery of his dialogue and acting ability was passable.Although editing can fix it up, the continuity in this film was quite bad otherwise thats all the cons.I recommend this film for the bored Action lovers who don't care about mediocre action.
I would of liked to give this film more all up but its technical aspects were just really bad.1/5 for Technical 3/5 for Artistic For the Total of 4/10.
The plot is predictable and the acting is grade school but honestly what do you expect from a straight to DVD staring RVD?
RVD's acting is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be and Batista's character is freakin awesome.
The main bad guy seriously looks like he is being played by Howie Mandel's brother.
One thing that I did like about this movie is that is stays fairly realistic.
This movie is what is it; a low budget action flick but at least its watchable.
Like the other reviews say, if you are looking for a comedy then look no further, this is beyond bad in every way imaginable.
Much has been written about Rob Van Dam's wooden acting but give him some credit, every single person involved in this film could have been recruited from the crowd at a UFC or Nascar event.The plot is hilarious, the entire thing is set up within what feels like seconds of the start of the film: 'oh hi you're our new neighbours don't even unpack just come to this club with us, oh no within minutes you have accidentally killed the generic crime lord's brother, a 19 year old played by a 40 year old who later confusingly turns out to be the crime lord's son after all'.
It would be nice to think whoever casted this giant turd was trying to defy the Hollywood convention of beauty over substance by choosing a gristly middle aged woman to play RVD's wife, but by the end of the film you can literally smell the regret at casting Lara Grice (presumably a budget-saving measure), and she is gleefully replaced as the love interest by RVD's on screen daughter who is much easier on the eye and the worst actor out of the lot.
Rob Van Dam moves like a wheel chair ridden, diabetic man who weighs half a ton.
The production is shoddier than almost anything I've ever seen; there are youtube videos directed better than this stinker, there are twelve year olds with a mobile phone camera and a movie editing package who display more technical proficiency and vision than David DeFalco.This is literally one of the worst things I've ever seen.
Lackluster screenplay enormously overused plot line(A former military man turned family man {Rob Van Damm} accidentally kills bad guys brother,or his son as you find out, and ends up fighting a bunch of brainless thugs who are offered 100 grand to bring him to said bad guy, daughter gets kidnapped....) you know where this is going.
You can really tell which wrestlers can actually act because the Don't wrestle anymore (i.e. Dwayne Johnson and Steve Austin) So please in the future save yourself the embarrassment and our time and the money of these production companies and step aside and let the REAL actors do their job and do the REAL entertainment..
Rob Van Dam has all the acting skills often seen in a high school play.What a waste of time..
Yeah i watched the movie to see DAVE BAUTISA i DIDN'T SEE THE GUY AND IM 50 MINUTE'S INTO THIS FILM.YES THE BROTHER THAT WAS KILLED NEW THE LOOK THAT SHE HAD IN HER EYE'S.
SHE WANTED SETH SHE WANTED SETH BAD.TO BAD THE HUSBAND CAME IN AND STOPPED HER FUN.Sure she played hard to get when he asked her did she want coke Her eyes lit up like the new years ball on January 31 in time square.
That's what makes this flick so bad not the writing not the acting not the plot...whats makes it bad is they want us to believe that SETH the dead brother was not the hottest thing in the club hell sit down BRAD PITT.
Bobby (Rob Van Dam) gets really hurt since the beginning and he is always OK during the fights.
So the WWE creates a separate production company to use it's superstars to make low end action movies right?
This of course becomes very much apparent in "The Wrong Side of Town"; a film so bad it's brilliant.Where do you start with this?
Well first off Rob Van Dam is so wooden he makes Hayden Christensen look like a thespian when he played Anakin Skywalker or Manakin Skywalker as was so beautifully put in Clerks 2.*spoiler alert*It supposed to star Batista right?
well what kind of Actor gets top billing in a movie they are in for only 5 minutes?
He's in it for less!*spoiler over*What must have happened is that Rob Van Dam fell out of favour with the WWE (which is probably why he's now at TNA) during the making or post production and got pushed back to third billing or that Batista is a more likely name that'll sell this bucket of horse sick.
Either way it wouldn't have helped this movie make any dent in the sales chart (unless it did in which case there is no God).To be honest I could go on about how terrible this film is and about the lame plot, lame acting and lame "twist" (it's not a very good one), but instead I'm just going to say that You have to watch this movie.
When I say that Steven Segal films are Oscar worthy compared to this tripe (that looks to have been edited by a guy who got drunk and head butted the keyboard) you'd think I was joking but trust me I'm not.Have fun with it.
You will most likely laugh your ass off on just the ridiculous WTF moments and cheesy lines..Rob Van Dam is not a very good actor at all, his voice isn't that great for movies either..
The fight scenes were pretty awful too..For the best actor of the movie, that would have to go to Batista.
To the worst acting would have to be Seth, his two bodyguards, and the worst goes to RVD's daughter.It could of been much better if they would of had a decent actor playing seth and a new director.
For example RVD character never escalates the situation, he only reacts or the gang leaders infuriating rage after the death of his son, very funny and enjoyable to watch, almost like a theatre play.
Wrong side of town is a well balanced film for its budget..
"Wrong Side of Town" looks like the kind of action-thriller that either Stallone or Seagal could have made in their respective primes.
Rod Van Dam looks more like a wrestler than a Navy SEAL, but then this is a movie.
Literally, our hero and his wife go to the wrong side of town and have to fight their way back."Wrong Side of Town" is a realistic movie in the terms that everything that happens could actually take place.
great start for 2 well known wrestlers, but very bad script and direction.
Ill be honest I didn't think it was going to be good, ie I thought it was going to be a really low budget start off film .
You had van dam holding a gun which seemed out of place because his head was tilter as if he was looking through the aim point at the end of the gun, yet his head was no where near it, yet with a back shot of rvd it was obvious it was a stand in due to the body and then because the gun was in the correct position of the body, then you came back to the front view and same botch job.
How ever saying all these bad points, I can safely say that for their first film that I know of rvd and bautista , they did a sterling job, you can see that they still need to learn there craft and adjust with how they body language is, but overall it was a nice pleasant experience watching these two act.
but as a straight to DVD, you would only be happy about it if you paid say £5 and then found how bad David DeFalco had directed this film they would still feel ripped off, but eased the pain knowing they saw some pretty decent acting by the 2.