SYNCHRONIC Review: A Slow Time In New Orleans
The Big Easy has long been a natural backdrop for thrillers and dramas, but with Synchronic, New Orleans gets a different kind of party. Paramedics and age-old best friends Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) begin to find themselves at the scenes of unusual overdoses, murders, and deaths. Nothing adds up until Steve realizes the common thread among all deaths is a synthetic party drug called Synchronic. He gets pushed to his limit when Dennis’ daughter Brianna (Ally Ioannides) goes missing from a party where she herself has taken the drug. Tormented by memories of loss, Steve buys out what he hopes are the last remaining doses of the drug in order to destroy them. But a chance meeting with the drug’s creator tempts him into trying the drug itself. Dr. Kermani (Ramiz Monsef) follows Steve home, even breaking into his house to try to find these last doses. […]
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