The Reckoning
2014
Crime / Mystery / Thriller

The Reckoning
2014
Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Plot summary
When a detective is called in to investigate the roadside execution of his partner, he discovers at the crime scene a data card from a video camera. The card contains footage shot by two runaway teenagers who are making a documentary about the drug related death of a sibling. The detective retraces the teen's journey and soon begins to uncover a trail of the dead that leads all the way back to police headquarters.
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Movie Reviews
Interesting thriller, which completeloy loses it way in absurdity
THOSE THAT DEAL IN DEATH SHALL TASTE ITS FRUIT
If you read the Amazon editorial review you get the whole movie, including the "twist" you had already figured out. If you watch the film for Luke Hemsworth, he gets killed in the second scene and only appears in flashbacks. When Detective Jason (Hemsworth) is shot and killed, Detective Robbie Green (Jonathan LaPaglia) and his partner Jane (Viva Bianca) are on the trail.
The film implies that Robbie and Jane were once an item to the dismay of his family. Robbie also likes his drink which he sips on all day while working. We know who the killers are in the film and why they are doing it. In fact they documented their deeds and made sure the cops got a thumb drive. Rachel (Hanna Mangan Lawrence) who has terminal cancer along with her mentally ill boyfriend AJ (Alex Williams) are on a killing spree, getting everyone who was involved in Rachel's sister hit and run death.
This is not the best vigilante film out there, nor is it exciting crime drama...yet at the same time it isn't bad. You knew where the film was headed and I was hoping they would come up with a different ending...something with a clever twist from some useless piece of information I missed...but they didn't.
The film uses Bible quotes in the killings, but not Samuel L. Jackson quality. In spite of what the film claims, Romans is in the New Testament, not Old. An okay rental if you're bored.
Parental Guide: Occasional F-bomb. Sex. No nudity.