Bonus post for the holiday weekend!
Four superheroes, Charge (Jason Trost), Cutthroat (Lucas Till), Shadow (Sophie Merkley), and The Wall (Lee Valmassy) wake up in an unfamiliar town. Their powers are gone and they've clearly had their ass kicked. It's discovered that their old nemesis Rickshaw (James Remar) has kidnapped them and rigged the town full of innocent civilians to blow if they don't participate in his little games, designed to murder them one by one. The four not-so-super-anymore heroes have to save the townspeople while also dealing with their own baggage about working together again.
Jason Trost wrote, directed, and starred in this film and whoo boy is that obvious from the first minute. His is the only superhero that has a fight scene, a love scene, a confrontation with the villain, and any semblance of competence. Lucas Till is the name and/or face you'll recognize who clearly was trying to help his buddy out. The budget was estimated around $20,000 so James Remar is probably in this pro bono. The low-fi aspects of it aren't terrible and in the right hands, this could have been the next Chronicle. But Trost cannot write a single character other than himself and it lets the entire film down. I ended up fast forwarding in ten second chunks just to get through the last half hour. Avoid.
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