Frank Grillo as a badass with impossible hair. Even after he slept he woke up with perfect hair? Little details, make a difference.

I didn't watch much of the trailer and did not realize that's based on "fight club", cage brawling.

The characters had potential, particularly the main baddies , but it all goes down like a dud firecracker.

Some of the plot at first was not so cohesive, for example, wondering who that guy was who was rummaging through that ladies house, only to find out that was her boyfriend? Very unlikely looking pair.

At the end of it all what I wanted to see was more of Scott Adkins who was barely in it. This was a Frank Grillo movie.

I came to see Scott, but it's not what I got.

So so film that lacked originality, suspense and true gripping action.

Lights out goes through well worn action territory. Drifter Duffy (Frank Grillo) gets ripped off in a poker game at a bar in LA. After using his fists he comes to the attention of Max (Mekhi Phifer.)

He wants to manage Duffy for underground fight clubs. As an unknown quantity, Duffy is an ex army veteran with PTSD. Max who has recently been released from prison hopes to make money on the betting that takes place.

Only both men fall foul of corrupt cops who run the underground fights with gangster Sage (Dermot Mulroney.)

When Max's niece is injured by the baddies. Both go after them hard. Duffy also calls in ex army buddy 'The Reaper' Scott Adkins.

The action scenes are the best selling point for the movie. Not over the top. It helps that Grillo has the a acting chops for the quieter scenes. There is a strategic guest cameo from Adkins.

At first, when I looked at the cast of this film, I thought that I would see a good quality spectacle, however, this "thriller" left me with the opposite feeling. In the epicenter of the events is an ex-soldier Duffy, who participates in an underground fighting league for the sake of big money. It is an association similar to a fight club, but corrupt police officers play a major role in the organization and control of these fights. In fact, it is an illegal business office. Duffy is an anti-establishment man who knows the misery of war. Due to financial difficulties, Duffy decides to take part in these illegal fights, but in the end, the main character becomes persona non grata of the corrupt policemen. In my opinion, the content of the film is not refined. The dialogues are very superficial, lacking depth. The script is very flawed. The characters are not open. The character of the one and only Jamie King made an interesting impression on me. For Jamie, this was the first negative character he portrayed in his career. As for the director, Christian Sesma, he has a lot of works in this style, but all of them were evaluated very negatively.