For a B grade low budget film, it's not bad, I've seen a lot worse. The directing and cinematography was decent, and surprisingly for a B film, the score and soundtrack worked well, especially the finger-snapping music. Casting and performances were convincing, especially the Jane father-daughter duo as father and daughter, but I feel Liana Liberato needed better cast direction. The story was a good concept for the genre, but the screenplay by the newb writers, the Ablakhads, in their first ever writing credit, certainly needed some fine tuning. Even in the normally comfortable 90 min runtime and decent pacing, the film felt much longer from the lack of any real narrative. The entire first act wasn't fitting (or really needed) with the rest of the story, and there were many repetitive plot and technical issues. The dialogue was very cheesy and not enough was happening to hold the viewers attention. This film would've worked better as a short film, and/or most of the dialogue reworked with more actual drama instead of fluff, as well as more narrative in the story itself. More action and less words would've worked great on this film. But as their first writing credit, the Ablakhads did good, rookie mistakes and all. It's a generous 6/10 from me for this one-time watchable "if there's nothing else to watch" film.

Signature scenes the rubber mallet, that about says it all. Between my eyes, over and over again, the whole time. Thinly veiled macguffins, reasons for the characters having investment, motivation, plot devices, whatever. Pretty much that way throughout; by the time the thugs are holding the heroes captive, more of the same, more rubber mallet blows to the viewer's face. Get it over with already. How many more characters do I really need to describe just how much of a lame duck this one really was. So many were the plot devices, motivations, etc, was it really that interesting, no, not really. I am finally done.

I saw Dig, starring Thomas Jane-The Expanse_tv, Hung_tv; Liana Liberato-A Million Little Things_tv, Sons of Anarchy_tv; Harlow Jane-I Love Us, Texas Rising_tv and Emile Hirsch-The Comeback Trail, Lone Survivor.

Thomas plays a man with a temper. He and his wife have to drag his teenaged daughter out of a drinking party and on the way home, he gets into a situation involving road rage where his wife is killed and his daughter looses her hearing. Harlow plays his daughter. Both feel responsible for the death; if Thomas had controlled his temper or if Harlow hadn't caused her parents to come looking for her in the first place, her mother-his wife-might still be alive. Emile shows up and hires Thomas to do a job. Liana is Emile's girlfriend. Emile wants Thomas to dig up a patio on a house that is scheduled to be demolished-he tells Thomas that he is doing it for a friend that is going through a divorce and needs something. Of course, there is a different reason that puts Thomas and Harlow in danger.

It's rated R for language, violence, drug use and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 30 minutes.

It's not a bad movie but it is pretty much by the book, so nothing surprising. It's not one that I would buy on DVD. It would be alright as a rental, though.