Taglines: Some people are hard to kill.
In 9 Bullets, Gypsy (Lena Headey) is leaving behind her days as a burlesque dancer to focus on her new career as an author. But on the night of her final performance, her neighbors are assassinated by her ex-boyfriend, the local crime lord (Sam Worthington). When the murdered couple’s son, Sam (Dean Scott Vazquez), comes to her for help, Gypsy reluctantly puts her new life on hold to try to get the boy to safety.
9 Bullets is an American crime thriller film directed by Gigi Gaston and starring Lena Headey, Dean Scott Vazquez, Sam Worthington, Cam Gigandet, Barbara Hershey, Martin Sensmeier, Stephanie Arcila, Marlene Forte, La La Anthony and Cornelia Guest, Claire Liz Phillips. The screenplay was written by Gigi Gaston. The film was reeased on April 22, 2022 by Screen Media Films.
Film Review for 9 Bullets
There’s irony in the fact that a film that’s ostensibly about redemption has no redeeming value. One thing that’s (sort of) original? Gypsy is a stripper who has to find her heart of gold. She’s initially inhumanly selfish. When she discovers Sam hiding in her house after watching his family get slaughtered in front of his eyes, covered in blood, she lets him know that the killers are after him, too, and then tries to stick him on a bus with no supervision. It’s heartless and makes no sense, nor do any of the choices made by any of the characters.
The script is incomprehensibly bad, but what’s most disturbing is that it’s not just poorly constructed, it’s poorly intended. Every skeevy, repugnant idea that you don’t want to see on the screen is here — and just when you think the imagery can’t get worse, it does. Like a gun put to the head of a small dog. Or a baby dying on-screen. Or Gypsy having sex with a despicable killer to save the lives of those in her care, and then being shown to really, really enjoy it.
And then there’s the fact that the locations on Gypsy and Sam’s journey don’t match a logical route from Los Angeles to North Dakota. Or the idea that Gypsy went to Princeton, but when we see her manuscript, she writes about the pain of “loosing a child.” Looking at the big-name talent involved with the production (Barbara Hershey! Sam Worthington! Diane Warren!) of 9 Bullets indicates that someone involved with the project is good at writing … writing checks, that is.
9 Bullets (2022)
Directed by: Gigi Gaston
Starring: Lena Headey, Dean Scott Vazquez, Sam Worthington, Cam Gigandet, Barbara Hershey, Martin Sensmeier, Stephanie Arcila, Marlene Forte, La La Anthony, Cornelia Guest, Claire Liz Phillips
Screenplay by: Gigi Gaston
Production Design by: Réka Vivien Szabó
Cinematography by: Byron Werner
Film Editing by: Eve Doherty, Halima K. Gilliam
Costume Design by: Lisa Norcia
Music by: Hugo de Chaire
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Screen Media Films
Release Date: April 22, 2022
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