David (Bobby Soto) inherited the tax collection business from his father. He takes 30% of all drug sales in LA. Creeper (Shia LaBeouf ) is his muscle. A cold-blooded godless killer whom people think he is a Satanist. As it turns out pops killed a man, but not his son who now wants the business and he has the guns.

I liked the Creeper character. There was a little too much religious dialogue. What started out good ended up in a shoot out mess, Where was the combat between Creeper and his female counterpart?

Guide: F-word. nudity.

I really wanted to like this even more, but it just feels so uneven. There are many things that I do like about this (outside of the over the top performance by Shia that is). But there are also many things that while I understand, they just don't work as well as the movie thinks they do - like the help towards the end of the movie. It is set up in a way during the movie, but it still feels ... detached from it.

The movie is quite hellbent on displaying violence. The really gruesome things are mostly not shown up close. There is one scene though that ... well some would say is in your face - pun very much intended.

Not sure how much you can connect with the main character (not Shia, he's the sidekick of sorts). Depending on that, will determine how invested you'll be. Not a bad movie by a long shot, just not as mad and good as I expected it to be.

Well, the 2020 movie "The Tax Collector" was what it was; essentially just another generic gang-related action crime movie, for better or worse. But there was something oddly entertaining about the movie though.

Sure, if you enjoy watching movies with street gangs and criminal activity, then I believe you will find "The Tax Collector" rather entertaining. However, this movie had a tendency to feel like just about every other movie based on the same formula.

The storyline told in "The Tax Collector" was pretty straight forward, although it was fairly generic, and with writer and director David Ayer leaving no room for surprises, the movie felt linear to the point of being overly predictable. There just simply were not surprised throughout the course of the movie.

I will say, though, that writer and director David Ayer did manage to concoct a movie where it felt like the audience was right there alongside David (played by Bobby Soto) and Creeper (played by Shia LaBeouf),and that definitely added an enjoyable level to the movie.

It was also nice to see the likes of George Lopez, Jimmy Smits and Noel Gugliemi show up in the movie.

While "The Tax Collector" was entertaining enough and enjoyable enough for what it turned out to be, it was ultimately just another run-of-the-mill-gangbanger-movie, truth be told. But some pretty convincing acting performances managed to bring the movie up a notch. Which reflects in my rating of the movie, which settles on a six out of ten stars.