Shackled
Two Criminals. One Chance. No Way Out.
In a dystopian future where the parole system has been replaced with R.A.P.P. - the Recidivism Accountability Partnership Program - a white collar ex-con must take drastic measures to ensure his survival when he's paired with a sociopathic gangster with terminal cancer. One wrong move by either of them could mean the summary execution of them both, via the explosive charges surgically implanted in their hearts as a condition of their release.
Wokeness: 20%
Overall Score: 40%
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Feels a lot like those direct to video movies that used come out all the time in the 90's. It even has the same weird out of place music
soundtrack and the bad acting. The only reason I made it all the way to the end is the story and idea is actually interesting and enough to
keep me watching. The writing isn't too bad other than the glaring plot hole of how Max ever got into the program with his condition. It's
clearly listed in his file so he should of never been eligible. It makes no sense and is never explained. While listed as Sci-Fi it's really
not. Set in the near future you would never know it's not present day. The opening scene is also rather pointless and serves only to waste
precious budget on an opening action scene. The characters don't matter and are never mentioned again, the scene itself clearly has no budget with terrible CG blood, bullet impacts and smoke FX. It should of been cut and the money spent better elsewhere. The only woke is maybe a little DEI casting thrown around but that's it. Not a terrible watch if you take the bad acting and don't mind slower paced thrillers over action.
Created: 10-05-2026
