Film Review – Guns Up

A study of Edward Drake’s filmography almost qualifies as a horror experience. He’s been grinding out low-budget actioners for five years now (nine movies in total), and all of them involved the participation of Bruce Willis (who, as we understand now, was fighting a painful health decline due to a developing dementia diagnosis), involving himself in a particularly icky professional situation that provided him with something of a career. It’s amazing there hasn’t been a book written about the alleged exploitation of Willis, but until that day arrives, we still have to deal with Drake, who returns with a new lead actor in Kevin James for “Guns Up,” which is very much like every other feature he’s previously helmed. Also claiming a screenwriting credit, Drake delivers an extraordinarily generic offering of violence and cutesiness in “Guns Up,” supplying nothing new to viewers as the endeavor goes through a tiresome routine of shoot-outs and unwelcome broadness. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com