Review of Assault on Wall Street (2013) by Delilah K — 17 Apr 2014

Yes, I did make a huge time investment and decided to take a risk with the "straight-to-DVD/Streaming" flick "Assault on Wall Street"; but you know, it wasn't bad. Writer-Director Owe Boll's ballistic movie is about an everyday man who goes on a vengeful rampage against the banks, CEO's, and stock brokers who cheated him, took his earnings, and left him for broke. The man is Jim Baxford played by Dominic Purcell. All goes haywire when Jim loses all his money due to the greed & corruption of the aforementioned. Jim's wife Rosie is sick and cannot work. When things don't get rosie for Jim and ends up rock bottom, he decides to get on "Falling Down" mode and stock up on his rifle machinery to seek revenge. His main target being Bank CEO Jeremy Stancroft (played by John Heard), who better had not stayed Home or Work Alone; a little Heard pun reference there since Heard was in the "Home Alone" flicks. Anyways, Boll does energize the film with some pretty good scenes, but at the same time, you could see a few times why it was in the "straight to DVD" caliber. His bold Boll screenplay was also not verbally challenging, but it did have its good verbal fires. Purcell was a bit too monotone for me in his starring role as Jim, but at the same time he Purcelled, I mean persuaded me enough to believe in his character. I cannot terminate this movie review without noting that Edward Furlong shows up in this flick as John Conner who helps Jim terminate the bankers. OK, Furlong did not play John Conner, but he was in the movie as Jim's co-worker Sean. So go ahead and charge me with way too many pun assaults in my review of "Assault on Wall Street", but I won't hold it against you. To cap things off, "Assault on Wall Street' is no "Wolf of Wall Street", but it will not hurt you to give this assault a shot.

****Good.