Blackbear (I) (2019)
4/10
messy writing
15 June 2022
Bear and Cowboy are Marines. They escape ISIS torture and make it all the way back home. Dr. Rev is taking care of Cowboy who is dying from an ISIS injection. He's told that he has three months to live. Bear tries to reconnect with his ex Skyler. Unable to find work, he goes back to mixed martial arts but Coach Bronx (Eric Roberts) refuses to train him.

This is a low budget indie. It's a struggle to find a focus for this film. The leads are not great actors. The movie is split into two stories that don't really connect until the end. It's a bunch of movie ideas being jammed together. I get the idea of sacrifice . It's better to concentrate the story solely on Bear. It may be better for him to be the sole survivor dealing with survivor guilt. Scott Pryor probably piece together this film while writing in the gym. Maybe he should get a scrawny nerdy writer to clean up this film. The fights are fine but I get the sense that it's where most of the effort went into. This wants to be Rocky but the secret of that film is that Sly is actually a good writer.
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