Strictly average movie

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Jack (Robert Seay) is an ex-Iraqi war vet, which we know from the movies all become hired killers. His latest request to murder a porn producer (Jeffrey Vincent Parise) who disfigured an eastern European woman brought to America to make adult film. There is a subplot which involves his ex-GF and former sister-in-law (same person, Kodi Kitchen) who shows up at his door one day needing a place to crash. Meanwhile there is a guy named Brill (Mark Rolston) who wants to recruit Jack.The action scenes are quick which allows the film to move slow. Jack doesn't really have any character and its stone faced the entire film. The subplots don't come together in a clever fashion as one would expect which leaves you wondering, "what's the point?" There are better indie action films out there. Poorly conceived and poorly executed.Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex talk, off screen sex, nude painting on wall.

A Glacial Pacing and some Very Awkward Scenes Taint this Tale of a Professional Assassin, a sort of a "Day in the Life". The Movie Looks Pretty Good and the Acting is Passable but the Writing is too Ambiguous and Underwrought.There are Two Intolerable Scenes, one Unbearably Long and Wordy, the other just Unbearable. The Porn Director's Endless Story Telling of a Youthful Sexual Encounter may have You Reaching for the Stop Button or Falling Asleep as it just goes on Forever and Tom Sizemore's One Scene is just Outrageously Bad.This Moody-Broody Movie is OK but Requires a High Patience Tolerance and the Ending is, Again, Very Ambiguous and the Long Trek to get there is Perhaps the Most Unrewarding Letdown of a Film that Aspires for Something Different and Maybe even High-Art, but it comes up a bit Short on Both.

At first, the movie seemed to be going nowhere and the acting appeared shaky. I decided to give it a chance, and I got slowly involved in this slow burn of a movie. It's a good movie to have on in the background while you're doing other things. Basically, I would summarize this movie as a "day in the life" of a hired assassin. It follows him through his regular life and it makes you feel like you are living in it. The cool thing is that he isn't driving BMWs and living in expensive places. He drives a really old beat-up car and lives in a normal-looking house. He yawns a lot on the train and falls asleep. At first it seemed kind of weird, but after a while you could see the director's style. It was like he wanted you to see how average an assassin can be. Not like this terminator with no weaknesses, but just a guy who gets tired like everyone else and falls asleep on the train.The music is also really well-done.

Believe it or not but I really wanted to like this movie. Waited for a DVD release, pre-ordered and then, when it finally arrived, I can't believe how the good storyline was wasted. On paper everything looks good but that's it. I have no idea why film drags for 2 hours when it should be maximum 80 minutes long and then, maybe there would be more tension in it. Because it is that long, it has to rely on acting and here comes the biggest failure. Leading actor Robert Seay is just beyond terrible. For the first few minutes I thought he will do just fine. Contract killer doesn't have to look tough after all. However, just after those few minutes I realized how big failure of an actor he is. Emotional scenes don't exist because this guy can't act. He's trying to look tough, talk tough and act tough but he's not tough, he's not smart and he just makes you laugh like hell when you see him trying. With a lead like that, your movie has to sink. Rest of the cast is pretty much horrible like that but it doesn't show that much because they usually appear on screen for a minute or less. There is however one man, doing his job right. It's Mark Rolston, fantastic actor who's trying to save this film. He can't do that because he's alone and his screen time is limited to few scenes. It's hard to say if he's a good guy or the bad guy after all but Mark does his job with charisma as usual. Tom Sizemore is top billed but to any fans out there(if he still have some fans that is) -he appears in one scene only. This scene however have to be seen to be believed. Not because he's doing great job but because he's high as hell. Yup, we all know Tom likes drugs and it doesn't bother me at all if he does them in his free time but being so high on the set is just...wrong. If you ever wondered why he's not in a big movies anymore - here is your answer. He has a monologue here and it could sound well if provided by other name actor but it wasn't. I hope his name helped to sell the film because his acting was just plain horrible. Kodi Kitchen is a leading lady and to be honest she does a fair job. She's not that much of an actress but around so many amateurs, she shines. 'Crosshairs' tries to be a thriller but there is no tension at all. There is action at all. If you expect any shootouts, fights or anything like that - forget it. All they do is talk. Leading guy fires his gun two or three times during the whole film, no one else tries to. I'm giving it 3 stars for Mark Rolston and because technically it looks good. If you want to skip any action and base your film on acting, you need to have a good actors. Otherwise it doesn't make sense.