![]() Motivated by the revenge after Sergio, Mario's younger brother who was one of the Antonio's drug pushers and an addict who died 25 years ago by overdose, Mario cares Antonio by day, but makes him sick by night as retribution. In the residence Antonio meets Mario, nursery chief and his personal assistant who expects his first baby with his six months pregnant wife Julia. Aging, weak and ill, Antonio goes freely into a seniors residence instead to go his home with two sons, older and more cerebral Toño and younger and more aggressive Kiko, despising them openly in the belief that they two will ruin the family business. Legendary Gallician drug dealer Antonio Padín is pardoned from the jail due to humanitarian reasons, after to have a terminal disease. Cambados, Pontevedra (Galicia northwest to Spain). With most of us staying home for the foreseeable, you may as well give this a go and see what you think.2018. However, if you want some mindless action and an easy to follow plotline to keep you entertained, this might keep you occupied for a little while. ![]() We’ve seen Travolta and Freeman in some masterpieces, but sadly this wasn’t one of them. The performances were fine, but these actors definitely have the capacity to be better than what Eye for an Eye showed. There are definitely worse thrillers out there, and the big name cast list might be appealing to some. It’s not as engaging as the genre has the capacity to be, which was disappointing. This is the kind of thriller you could watch while aimlessly scrolling through your phone, and still manage to follow what’s going on. It’s also quite predictable, and there’s a chance you’ll be able to figure out how it ends way before said ending arrives. This plotline actually ends up being dragged out more than the initial case Carson was assigned to, and it’s as if the film got a bit lost halfway through. There’s a secondary plot involving Jayne’s new husband Happy Chander, who is the star quarterback and untouchable for some reason, as if this is some kind of high school drama. ![]() Twenty years had passed since Carson had last seen them – surely we as an audience could’ve had a little more context? There’s not a lot of substance to it and I wish the characters had been fleshed out a bit more, as there was a potential to give the audience a bit more background for people like Doc and even Jayne. Mitchell might not be telling the whole truth.Įye for an Eye is the kind of film we’ve all seen before, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. He’s a doctor at the mental facility Carson was instructed to investigate, and looks almost unrecognisable in this role compared to some of his other well known performances. Miles Mitchell, who is arguably the best character in the film in terms of performance. We also learn that he has a daughter named Becky (played by Travolta’s real life daughter Ella Bleu Travolta). including Doc (Morgan Freeman), Chief Walsh (Robert Patrick), and his ex Jayne (Famke Janssen). Once there, it’s inevitable that he starts to run into people from his past. But he eventually accepts the case and heads back to Texas. Naturally he’s apprehensive about taking the case on, as he left behind Galveston twenty years ago and doesn’t really want to return. Mrs Johnson wants Carson to track down her wealthy aunt who was last seen in an asylum in Galveston, Texas, which happens to be Carson’s hometown. He’s also originally from Texas but lives in Los Angeles, and is approached by a woman named Mrs Johnson (Julie Lott) who brings him an interesting case. Carson likes to smoke, drink and gamble, much like other hard-boiled cops we’re used to seeing on screen. Set in the 1970s, the film definitely follows a well-known formula. Inspired by film noir, Francesco Cinquemani and George Gallo’s thriller Eye for An Eye (also known as The Poison Rose) follows Carson Phillips (John Travolta), an ex-football star turned PI who takes on a missing person’s case.
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