I don't want to trash this movie like the other reviews, but I genuinely think if someone gave it a shot at re-editing this movie it could fix a lot, here's how I'd do it:
It's little things like that that make this film seem amatuer and it could all be fixed quite easily, but it makes me wonder why it wasn't fixed before release, my guess is because of a low budget the director wasn't always able to shoot a lot of coverage of scenes and then was left to edit together scenes and sequences that don't quite flow or make sense.
Little nit pick: the two brothers are both shot in the stomach and die instantly but the girl shot in the centre of her chest lives.
I really really liked the homage to Buster Keaton with the falling wall stunt that Booboo pulled off. That was a great addition!
- Open with Booboo's flashback to show how he got in trouble, let us know he's the main character and why we should be rooting for him.
- Something is off with the audio during the scene in the creek at night, the cinematography in this scene looks great, but the broken audio is really distracting and needed either cleaning up or re-recording.
- The gun sounds don't sound great either, they could do with some meatiness adding to them, make them sound powerful and make them echo and reverb.
- The VFX isn't exactly up to 2018 standards, I know VFX is expensive but there's definitely better stuff to use for more convincing explosions (main point being the helicopter crashing into the turbine).
- It would've been nice for the terrorists to have dialogue, rather than just being silent, faceless, unmotivated goons. If Nils Allen Stewart (his name misspelled in the credits by the way) was their leader it would have been nice to see and hear him giving orders to his men and adding tension and drama to the climax.
- There's lots of teleporting going on. Booboo is with Chombo at the farm and then they're suddenly helping the girl out of the river without showing how they got there or why the other kids didn't try and save her. The girl initially falling into the river was a little unclear, same as when she and Mack were suddenly wading through a creek looking for the blonde girl, this could be fixed with editing providing there's footage to insert.
It's little things like that that make this film seem amatuer and it could all be fixed quite easily, but it makes me wonder why it wasn't fixed before release, my guess is because of a low budget the director wasn't always able to shoot a lot of coverage of scenes and then was left to edit together scenes and sequences that don't quite flow or make sense.
Little nit pick: the two brothers are both shot in the stomach and die instantly but the girl shot in the centre of her chest lives.
I really really liked the homage to Buster Keaton with the falling wall stunt that Booboo pulled off. That was a great addition!