The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
DVD & BluRay
CULT KILLER Altitude; On Digital from
Feb 12
This violent thriller is heavy on shock value. but could have people cheering on star Alice Eve (pictured) when she sets out to bring down a paedophile ring.
Alice plays Cassie Holt, a beautiful but drunk young woman, who’s trying to find the meaning of her life at the bottom of a bottle. This gets Cassie into trouble with a group of men in a Dublin bar, but they find out the hard way she’s capable of looking after herself.
Cassie gets a helping hand from bar customer Mikhail (Antonio Banderas), a private eye who takes Cassie under his wing and teaches her martial arts and shooting skills. These well-honed talents come in handy after Mikhail is murdered by Jamie (Shelley Hennig) by mistake, because she thought Mikhail was working for the wealthy paedophile ring that once held her captive.
The two women bond over lives that were ruined by the trauma of childhood abuse, and vow to bring down the evil group.
Jamie has already begun her quest by killing anyone she identifies as a member if the sick group. But, somehow you can’t imagine that even wiping them all out will bring any peace of mind to Cassie and Jamie in a film that would like to be more than just another vigilante revenge thriller. However, the performances by Alice and Shelley will do their careers no harm, but it’s a touch sad to see Banderas starting down the road trodden by Bruce Willis and Nicolas Cage, as former Hollywood headliners who get top billing in low-budget movies, but are actually just supporting acts.