Film Review – Gunpowder Milkshake

In 2013, director Navot Papushado made a strong impression with the excellent revenge thriller, “Big Bad Wolves,” co-helming the effort with Aharon Keshales. The feature was a violent endeavor, loaded with intensity, and now Papushado is trying to make a go of it in Hollywood alone, taking control of “Gunpowder Milkshake,” co-scripting the picture with Ehud Lavski. Returning to an aggressive attitude when it comes to screen horror, Papushado presents a more stylish offering this time around, taking advantage of a bigger budget and CGI tools to create another slice of vengeance, this time exploring a graphic novel-like playground of super-assassins and the secretive and surprising world they inhabit. It’s all very “John Wick”-ian, but “Gunpowder Milkshake” has its own highlights and bursts of insanity, with the production gifting interested audiences an enormous amount of cinematic hostility, sold well by Papushado, who bathes the film in blood while the writing aims to rethink a universe (and genre) controlled by male power. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com