It’s the event you’ve all been waiting for, the Bruce Willis movie of the month! This month we proudly present Deadlock, directed by Jared Cohen (Swim, Devil’s Revenge) and co-written by Cohen and Cam Cannon (USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, A Haunting at Silver Falls). Sounds like we’re in for a real treat this time. I mean doesn’t that poster look like it represents a great film its studio is proud of?
After a drug bust turns violent and leads to the death of one of the Whitlock boys and the arrest of the other, their father Ron (Bruce Willis, Apex, Survive the Game) loses his shit and kills the first two cops he sees.
Meanwhile, Mack (Patrick Muldoon, American Satan, Vanquish), former Ranger and current bitter alcoholic has dragged himself into work at the hydroelectric plant after an epic night at the bar. He better sober up fast because Ron, some militia buddies and some mercenaries, aided by Boon (Matthew Marsden, Savage Dog, Resident Evil: Extinction) and a couple of others inside the plant, are taking over. They’re planning to open the floodgates and drown thousands of innocent people if they don’t get what they want.
Because the fates of everyone living downstream from the dam aren’t enough, Cohen and Cannon spice Deadlock’s plot up with a pregnant plant employee (Kelcey Rose) and have a busload of school kids touring the plant as well.
Having stacked the hostage list with clichés, Deadlock then proceeds to reintroduce Mack who was off welding away from the main building. It also gives him a partner, Tommy (Douglas S. Matthews, Isle of the Dead, Enter the Dangerous Mind), a security guard hiding in the bathroom because he wasn’t going to fight these guys over “a white man’s dam”.