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Swelter (2014/Well Go USA Blu-ray)


Picture: B Sound: B+ Extras: C- Film: C



Swelter (which wants to be Reservoir Dogs so bad that it can taste it) is a brutal crime drama starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Josh Henderson and Alfred Molina. The story centers on a gang that steals more than $100 million from the Luxor Casino in Las Vegas. Shortly after, all but one of the five gang members are captured and jailed. Ten years later, after blasting their way out of a maximum security prison, the convicts go on the trail of their former accomplice and the remaining $10 million in stolen cash.


Bishop (Lennie James) is a small-town sheriff, making an honest living with no memory of his criminal past, but when the old crew rolls into town looking for the buried cash, the perfect getaway threatens to turn into a nightmare of greed, revenge and retribution. The film has some cool action moments but all in all feels like previously treaded territory.


On an interesting side note, Swelter is the first completed movie financed by Exchange Peaks Film Capital, a fund created as a full-service specialty film fund financed by Grand Peaks and run by The Exchange. This is also the first time that it has been released in the USA and sold out all of its international markets following the American Film Market. Not half bad!


The sound and picture on the disc are pretty solid with a 1080p high definition transfer in 2.35 X 1 widescreen and a powerful DTS HD MA 5.1 sound mix that's great for all those explosions and gunfire. There is also a French dubbed track and closed captioning for the hearing impaired. Total runtime for the film clocks in around 110 minutes.


Extras on the disc are simply interviews and a trailer.



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