ASSAULT ON VA-33 Review: In Yet Another Generic, Formulaic, Pedestrian ‘Die Hard’ Facsimile, Sean Patrick Flanery Powers Through
With Christopher Olen Ray’s new movie, Assault On VA-33, you can pretty much stack this one as another thriller in line with the rest of all the other potboiler ‘Die Hard’ carbon copies you’ve probably seen by now, if you’re an avid viewer of action films and you live for the kind of star power that films like this one headline. The film isn’t without its redeeming qualities, though apart from the admiration of watching action genre faves like Mark Dacascos and Michael Jai White, really, the plusses here all mainly boil down to the overall performances, led by Sean Patrick Flanery, who I can’t shut up enough about after seeing him in recent films such as American Fighter and Born A Champion. Flanery plays Jake Hill, a PTSD survivor whose wife, Jennifer (Gina Holden), counsels at the local VA hospital in upstate New York where he’s beginning to attend. […]