Lights Out (2024)

• Year: 2024
• Released: 16 Feb 2024
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16368898/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lights_out
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 1080p
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Thriller
• Runtime: 90 min
• Writer: Chad Law, Garry Charles, Brandon Burrows
• Director: Christian Sesma
• Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Scott Adkins, Jaime King
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4.8/10

Lights Out Storyline

A homeless veteran, Michael “Duffy” Duffield (Grillo), is always on the move, until he meets a talkative Ex-Con, Max Bomer (Phifer). Max notices Duffy’s skills after he gets into a bar fight and offers him a well-paying job. Duffy agrees and discovers that the “job” is competing in underground fight clubs. The pair make a ton of money on the first fight and decide to travel to LA so Duffy can atone for his past and Max can pay back a crime boss, Sage Parker (Mulroney). They stay with Rachel, Max’s sister, and Duffy quickly forms a connection with her. Duffy enters Sage’s fight club and eventually wins, but it leads to unwanted attention. Duffy gets tied up in the crime world and offered jobs he can’t refuse, including one with Sage’s partner and Police officer, Ellen Ridgway. The deeper he goes in this world, the more deadly it gets. Duffy is a skilled fighter, but will he and Max make it out alive?—The Exchange company

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Lights Out Movie Reviews

A master class on how not to make a film

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.

Decades later, they still have not learned…

Did you ever wonder who green-lights these scripts? The answer is, you wouldn’t want to know who, or even how, because it would make you weep for the lost opportunity to make a proper film. Decades later, and the industry still has not grasped precisely what makes these films exciting, fun to watch, and profitable — ie, the gradual escalation, growing anticipation, of the fights entirely for their own sake. Trying to complicate the story with hard drama or useless plot arcs is the fast track to … nowhere. To see this done right, check out Charles Bronson in HARD TIMES 1975 (still works well a full half-century later!); or the surprise hit WARRIOR 2011, which coincidentally leads my IMDb list of best films. Frank Grillo at age 58 can still command the screen. But he deserves so much better than this. ((Designated “IMDb Top Reviewer.” Please check out my list “167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))

A fun B Movie

“I thought I was going to change the world, until the world changed me.”

Lights Out is directed by Christian Sesma and stars Frank Grillo, Mekhi Phifer, Jamie King, Dermot Mulroney and Scott Adkins.

Follows Michael “Duffy” Duffield (Frank Grillo) a homeless ex soldier who is riddled with PTSD and who also happens to be a great fighter. He ends up attracting the attention of Ex-Con Max Bomer (Mekhi Phifer) who encourages him to start underground fighting to “let his anger out”. Duffy quickly strikes up a relationship with Max’s sister, Rachel (Erica Peeples) and her young daughter. It’s also revealed that Max owes money to local LA crime boss Sage Parker (Dermot Mulroney) and things go from bad to worse once dirty cops (one of them played by Jamie King) start messing with Rachel.

For a B movie I thought this was above par and better than I expected. Frank Grillo is an underrated actor and if he wasn’t the lead of this I don’t think this film would have worked as well. The chemistry that him and Mekhi Phifer have together is probably the best part of this movie, they make for good co leads. It’s rare to see DTV directors improve but between this and 2022’s Section 8 I think it’s pretty obvious that director Christian Sesma improved here or maybe working with Grillo and Adkins forced him to up his game. If you’re watching this for Scott Adkins he has a very small role and only two scenes with Grillo here really. Also Dermot Mulroney seems to be in everything as of late but I thought he did a good job with his role here.

Where this movie falls apart is the whole dirty cop angle it becomes way too convoluted and I think that whole storyline could’ve been cut out of this movie entirely and Dermont Mulroney’s character could’ve just been the main threat. Also Jamie King who plays one of the dirty cops wasn’t really convincing in the role and never came across like a real threat. Overall though this is a fun, action filled B movie and if you just want to see Frank Grillo kicking ass you’ll likely enjoy this. Also in my opinion this was a more enjoyable watch than both Madame Web and Argylle which are in theaters now so that has to count for something.