Headlock (2019)

• Year: 2019
• Released: 31 Jan 2019
• Country: United States, United Arab Emirates
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3813094/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/against_the_clock
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• Genre: Thriller
• Runtime: 102 min
• Writer: Mark Polish
• Director: Mark Polish
• Cast: Dianna Agron, Andy Garcia, Bar Paly
• Keywords: conspiracy, cia, missing person, mission, accident,

	2.4/10
	25% – Audience

Headlock Storyline

After new CIA recruit, Kelley Chandler (Polish) is seriously injured during a mission, surviving only on life support, his wife Tess (Agron), a former CIA operative, becomes determined to find out what happened to her husband. As the details of Kelley’s last mission unravel, showing that his accident was an inside job, Tess puts everything on the line to keep Kelley out of harm’s way, even if that comes with dangerous consequences.

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Aghast a Crock

Incoherent plot with an unbearable screenplay; visually despicable, annoyingly disjointed, unintelligible, headach-inducing, nauseating, nonsensically insulting and barely tolerable for about 20 minutes max, at which point had to terminate it with prejudice to preserve self respect.

You’re beginning to rot

This is another film where someone is conditioned to have a great memory and put together all the data inside their brain and there are no false memories. A CIA agent, Kelly Chandler (Mark Polish) is to gather intelligence on a massive terrorist attack which will be 12 cities across the world. And then the coma…

Both the CIA and his wife try to extract the data from his brain and they work both against and with each other. Now the film is mostly the interactions that are mixed with the confused thoughts of Kelly in a coma which are disjointed and repetitive. They are also meaningless to the viewer. It was overdone and a poor way to show his confused mind. The script needed editing, to say the least. The distorted man and the distorted voice was a low budget waste.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

VIEWS ON FILM review of Against the Clock

“All signs point to the loss of brain function”. So says Justin Bartha’s character in 2019’s Against the Clock (my latest review). Is he secretly talking about the raucous movie he’s in? Possibly. Is he talking about the inapt sensory overload in the movie he’s in? Definitely.

Anyway, “Clock’s” scenario goes like this: A Central Intelligence Agent named Kelley Chandler gets injured during a mission and winds up comatose. His wife (Tess Chandler) goes to great lengths to try and save him from a vegetative death. Mark Polish plays Chandler with stuntman overkill, unintentional physical comedy, and almost no dialogue. Every sequence involves him basically running and falling and running and falling and running (lather rinse repeat). Polish also directed Against the Clock while writing the laddish script as well. All I gotta say is “C-list” ego trip alert! Natch.

Only released in the U. S., saddled without an MPAA rating, and harboring the feel of something made by a film school graduate who couldn’t wait to show off his mad skills, “Clock” is abundant style over minimal substance. This flick is loud, seizure-d, and jittery, with a visual palate equivalent to a stoner’s nightmare and editing that looks as though it was done by a couple of simians on Foxy Methoxy. While watching the massively cross-cutting Against the Clock, I was reminded of the late Tony Scott and some of his stuff from the mid-2000’s (Domino, Man on Fire). Too bad Scott is Orson Welles compared to the headache-inducing and morbidly chi-chi Mark Polish.

“Clock”, with its alternate title being Headlock, stars the likes of Andy Garcia and Justin Bartha (mentioned earlier). They are known actors who play “Clock’s” dodgy CIA directors (Gerald Hotchkiss and Peter Hobbs). Bartha and Garcia unknowingly damage their reputations in this vehicle. They are decent but it doesn’t help that every other supporting performance around them feels as wooden as Pinocchio’s forehead. Bottom line: Against the Clock is the classic case of a Hollywood studio letting their director do whatever the heck he wants, when he wants. When “Clock’s” story finally comes together after numerous scenes being discombobulated to the nth degree, “time has run out” on the viewer’s patience. Rating: 1 and a half stars.