Film Review – Ruthless (2023)

Art Camacho has been involved in the world of movie stunts for decades, also chipping away at a directorial career, specializing in B-movies for the rental market. He’s been working in the film business for so long, it’s somewhat shocking to see how amateurish his latest endeavor, “Ruthless,” is, with the feature struggling on such a basic dramatic level of engagement, it almost registers as a big goof. There’s a simple set of ingredients here, with actor Dermot Mulroney handed a Liam Neeson-style thriller, tasked with selling a grim one-man-army offering of violent encounters and plenty of intimidation games. Camacho fumbles most of “Ruthless,” keeping the picture stiff and unconvincing when it comes to situations of aggression, pushing the effort to self-parody as overacting takes control of the viewing experience, while brutality is in limited supply here. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com