Shrapnel (2023)
3/10
Totally unrealistic
10 October 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Some of the story passed the smell test, but the gunfights were laughable. There were about 18 cartel gunmen crammed into three SUVs, all of them armed with automatic weapons, attacking a house where our hero and two women lived. The hero had what looked like a .45/70 lever action rifle that would throw a man several yards when it hit him. The hero switched off to his AR15 for the rest of the fight once he had let them into the house with him.

The hero killed 12 of the gunmen, one after the other. The cartel gunmen didn't score a single hit on any of the three defenders while the hero made headshot after headshot under heavy fire from "the cartel that couldn't shoot straight". Only the bad guys ever had to change a magazine. The hero had a magical magazine in his AR15 that must have held 80 rounds.

To make it even worse, the sheriff shows up alone with a 12 gauge pump that held 20+ rounds, and managed to kill one bad guy who shot the sheriff's car up, managing to miss the sheriff completely. The sheriff was killed by the surviving bad guys before his shotgun ever ran out of rounds. It was funny up until then , but it got too ridiculous. Of course there was a car chase that was worse than the gunfight at the house.

Next, the hero teams up with his ex-military pal and they drive to the cartel boss's house....that's where I had to just turn it off. Three stars is very generous. It wasn't that funny, after all.
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