SILENCER is another cheap action B-movie, serviceable enough but completely forgettable around an hour after you've watched it. The wooden Johnny Messner - one of the most lackluste leading men in action cinema - plays a former sniper who gets drawn down a dark pathway when a local crime lord's daughter is killed. What follows is a bunch of staple action moments that ladle on the violence and prove mildly satisfactory, although there's absolutely nothing here that hasn't been done many times before. Still, Danny Trejo and Robert LaSardo are long-time reliable villains and do entertain somewhat.

Frank (Johnny Messner) screwed up in Iraq as a sniper and doesn't talk much. He has bad dreams and works as a mechanic having spent time in prison. When someone accidentally kills the daughter of Leonard (Danny Trejo) his former boss, Leonard has a job for Frank, one where Frank freezes. Leonard takes it home and makes it personal.

This is your typical special ops revenge film without Liam Neeson or Jason Statham. Nothing new.

Guide: F-word, clothed sex. no nudity.

I had a feeling before coming to the IMDb to write my comments on this movie that many other viewers before me would have savaged this movie, and I was correct. Not that these people are wrong in giving the movie a big thumbs down, though having seen thousands of movies in my lifetime, I can say safely that this particular movie does not deserve the lowest rating. I have seen MANY movies that are far worse than this effort. For what was obviously a painfully low budget, the movie looks okay (though I admit that a higher budget would have helped.) And it's always fun to see Danny Trejo, even though he does seem to be going on autopilot for this particular project.

But yeah, the movie all the same is not good at all. I summed up why the movie is bad in the subject line of this review. The script provides absolutely nothing new - if you've seen your share of action movies, every plot turn and every character will be extremely familiar. Though you've probably never seen these elements unfold in the painfully slow fashion this movie choses to do so. Making matters even worse is that the movie is painfully weak when it comes to action. The first hour of the movie has almost no action; the filmmakers have to throw in a totally gratuitous bar fight to keep the audience awake. And what little action there is in the first hour or the last half hour isn't executed in a particularly exciting or engaging manner; it is strictly by the numbers.

As I said, the movie isn't the WORST, but it is definitely BAD, even if you have a hankering for B movies as I often do.