![]() ![]() When director Darren Lynn Bousman walked away from the franchise in 2007 after helming “II,” “III,” and “IV,” he was 28. I can handle most gore but if it gets too crazy, I’m looking away. Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead.” 40 years later, I’m about a 7. I would freezeframe and rewind the goriest scenes in George A. It becomes evident that a serial killer is on the loose whose method recalls long-dead serial killer John Kramer aka Jigsaw (the main antagonist of the horror franchise) after more crooked cops are targeted and killed in the same ghastly manner as the film’s first victim Boz. Most of the father-son scenes are restrained unless there’s a traumatic event taking place as in the flashback where Marcus arrives at a crime scene to find his son with a bullet wound after no one showed up when the “officer needs assistance” call went out. There are only a handful of times that Jackson shares the screen with Rock, those moments are golden, and it’s surprising how the two animated actors cancel each other out. Jackson portrays Zeke’s father, retired Police Chief Marcus Bank, whose legacy casts a shadow over his son’s career. Even though the officer was dirty, the squad feels betrayed, and this caused Zeke to get shot when no one responded to his plea for backup while on a case. “Spiral” is being shown in select IMAX theaters, so, depending on your GTL (Gore Tolerance Level)- 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest - it’s either a “Yikes!” or a “Yes!” To figure out your GTL level, count how many seconds it takes you to look away.īoz was a friend of Detective Zeke (Rock), maybe his only one, at a precinct where most of the police officers have turned against the Serpico-like investigator who once turned in a crooked cop. Minutes later we witness the first grisly death involving a train and the tongue-tied officer who’s held captive in a “SAW”-like contraption. ![]() The film opens on the Fourth of July as off-duty Detective “Boz” Bozwick (Daniel Petronijevic) is in hot pursuit of a purse snatcher at a local carnival who leads him down a shaft to the subway tunnels. ![]()
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