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A raunchy, gory story weighed down by bland dialogue and washed-out scenery.
Should You Watch It?
No. Here's the deal. This poorly written and poorly acted action-comedy contains no comedy. The fight scenes are chaotic and move too fast for the viewer to track what's happening. The story begins well but shifts dramatically with excessive violence and profanity.
A conflict exists between different faith beliefs. One bad guy turns his life around for Jesus and becomes a preacher. Meanwhile, the sheriff, a young Indigenous game warden, encourages the poacher to perform a ritual to alleviate his guilt over losing his wife.
The movie also contains strong, questionable content. Shootings, stabbings, severed fingers, male nudity, mentions of drug overdose, and extensive profanity appear throughout. The movie includes one true highlight. Repentance to God leads to redemption, but that moment almost disappears amid the focus on Native American rituals.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESA former military poacher gets caught between a ruthless gang and a determined game warden after he discovers $20 million in stolen cash. A group of assassins robs a rival gang and flies the money across Montana, but lightning strikes the aircraft and sends the cash into a frozen lake. When poacher Harlan discovers the money, a game warden arrests him for poaching while the assassins close in to recover their fortune. Harlan must team up with the game warden and lead one final mission he never wanted.
Is It Any Good?
Two stars fits this movie because it falls short in almost every department, and honestly it's hard to know where to start. Beside the dialogue, which drags for most of the runtime, the fake backgrounds don't help either. The chase scenes aim for a snowy, foggy look but turn blurry instead, and it happens too often to ignore.
The storyline and script fall short too, which is a shame given how the movie opens. The story starts with hope, then pits God as the one true God against Native American rituals as the source of healing, and never really settles the tension it creates. The plot never grabs you, and you'll likely check the clock more than once before it finally ends.
The Worldview
A pagan worldview runs through this movie's core conflict, since it treats God and Native American rituals as equally valid paths to the same redemption instead of choosing one.
Behind all the shootouts, knife fights, blood, and profanity, the story tries to resolve man's guilt, but it never settles who or what actually removes that guilt: repentance to God, or ritual?
That refusal to choose marks where the movie gets it wrong. Scripture points to only one Redeemer, and a story that treats him as interchangeable with ritual healing doesn't just hedge; it misrepresents what redemption actually requires.
A script soaked in profanity, graphic violence, and nudity compounds the problem. All that excess numbs the audience before the faith thread can land, so the one true element the movie offers carries no real weight by the time it arrives. The movie reaches for a message about guilt and healing, but muddled theology and that same excess bury it before it ever gets there.
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong Christian worldview where true repentance can only be found in God. Pagan worldview of Native American rituals being the one thing that can heal. A character turns his life around for Jesus and becomes a preacher. Meanwhile, the sheriff, a young Indigenous game warden, encourages the poacher to perform a ritual to alleviate his guilt over losing his wife
Foul Language
Strong foul language with 84 profanities, 65 "f" words, 15 were the "sh" words, multiple obscenities with the Jesus's name taken in vein
Violence
Strong violence includes graphic gun shots to the head, shootings, stabbings, killing someone by breaking their neck, blood, and a plane crash
Sex
One mention of masturbation
Nudity
Male backside and pubic hair when a man jumps into a lake nude, not in a sexual manner
Alcohol Use
Mention of the main character being constanly drunk to cope with losing his daughter
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
Characters steal drugs, and the main characters wife overdoses on drugs,leading to her death;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Lying, deceit, stealing, revenge, greed, envy, and slander.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
One of the film's "bad guys" finds Jesus and becomes a preacher. What does real repentance look like, and how is it different from just feeling sorry? Acts 3:19
The game warden offers the poacher a ritual to ease his guilt over his wife's death. Where does true forgiveness of guilt actually come from? 1 John 1:9
The movie sets two paths to healing side-by-side, Christ and ritual, without ever resolving the tension. Why does it matter which one we put our hope in? John 14:6
The characters chase $20 million that brings them nothing but violence. What does Scripture say about where lasting treasure actually comes from? Matthew 6:21
The Final Word
At its core, this movie tells the story of one man who carries a guilt he can't shake on his own. The plot squanders that premise on several half-finished action scenes and a script that can't decide whether Jesus or a Native American ritual heals a broken heart. The seed of repentance that leads to redemption rings true, but profanity, violence, blood, and a pile of other immorality smother it until the audience loses track of it entirely.
