Muzzle: City of Wolves

Much like the first movie there is so much wasted potential here. The first half started out pretty good with decent writing and I thought
it might be an improvement and the director is getting better. Unfortunately the second half throws it out the window and takes a nosedive. The story is basic and the acting is all over the place, some of it is pretty good while others are embarrassingly bad. I don't really know if
I would call it woke or not, there is a lot of diversity casting but it all sort of makes sense within the location and story. The exception might
be the female poc detective casting and her bad acting. The action scenes are decent if uninspired and nothing you haven't seen before. The villain is one of the weakest most ineffectual threats you will see in an action movie and the writing in the second half in particular is abysmal. Spoilers follow.....The dialog and interaction at the hospital is laughably bad and this is another major hospital with no other staff or security other than the 3 characters in the story. There is absolutely zero reason or point in killing the nurse, it makes no sense. If you know the Mexican cartel is after you do you go to the shadiest back alley Mexican restaurant you can find for a meeting? The slow flashbacks of him and his wife talking to each other serves no purpose other
than to pad out the already short runtime and slow the movie down to a crawl. There is an accurate representation of the typical lying propaganda media calling him a white supremacist racist who's randomly killing minorities and they conveniently have the actual camera footage shot that was used in the actual movie of a truck exploding. Couldn't even be bothered to shoot a separate angle and call it cell phone footage. Let's talk about the ridiculous villain who's
supposed to be this cartel crime boss that everyone is afraid of and so terrifying. Except he's not, at all. He spends the entire movie sitting in a dark room in front of a wall of computer screens without a shirt on threatening people on cell phones with a cheap Walmart voice changer and they all do whatever he says and are scared of him. Let's forget that he never actually follows through on any of his threats, or really does anything for that matter. My 4lb Chihuahua is more threatening
than this clown. He finally crawls out of his parents basement at the end of the movie and perfectly snipes a handgun on the ground spinning it into a drain grate in 1 shot but than can't hit 2 people out in the open with over a dozen rounds. He then just blind fires like an idiot into a house while they hide behind a cheap Chinese dresser that rifle could of shredded through like confetti. He than comes bumbling into the house only to get instantly disarmed by a snow globe (that hurts just writing that sentence) and then dispatched without a fight. This is another one of those movies you watch only if your bored or as background noise. Like the first one it's somewhat watchable I guess as I made it all the way through but just barely.