Verdict
Summary
A fairly standard crime thriller with a slightly better than average cast, White Rush doesn’t really add much to the genre and very much feels like a junky “B” movie, despite having the pretty solid pedigree of having filmmaker Mark Lester (Class of 1984, Commando, Firestarter) at the helm, and featuring a script by genre stalwart C. Courtney Joyner.
Plot:
A stash of drugs comes into the possession of some friends camping, leading to an odyssey of crime and murder.
Review:
Some friends camping in the woods – several of them in law enforcement, including cocky detective Chick (Louis Mandylor) – are enjoying hanging out when a drug deal in the area goes horribly wrong. One of them – a nurse (played by Tricia Helfer) – runs off and runs smack into the last man standing after the drug deal goes bad, an undercover cop named Brian (Judd Nelson), who is wounded. Brian takes the nurse hostage and forces her to nurse him back to health, while Chick and his friends (including a wiseass, played by future creator of Yellowstone and Sicario Taylor Sheridan) end up with the drugs. Chick convinces his friends to let him keep the drugs so that he can sell it all piecemeal on the street and cut everyone in for a slice, but what no one realizes is that the drug lord who lost his product has hired on a sexy sicario (played by Sandra Vidal) to hunt down the thieves and get his drugs back, no matter what. The sicario makes short order of the offenders, slitting throats, assassinating by guns, or seducing Chick’s friends, narrowing down her search until a final showdown at an abandoned factory is where all debts will be paid.
A fairly standard crime thriller with a slightly better than average cast, White Rush doesn’t really add much to the genre and very much feels like a junky “B” movie, despite having the pretty solid pedigree of having filmmaker Mark Lester (Class of 1984, Commando, Firestarter) at the helm, and featuring a script by genre stalwart C. Courtney Joyner. The movie is foul, generally loud and frantic with a bunch of unappealing characters, and when it ends it leaves virtually no impression. Having Helfer in the cast helps, as she became a star on Battlestar Galactica the same year this was released, and seeing Sheridan as a punk deuchebag is kind of amusing. Other than that, this one is strictly for fans of its cast members, and no one else.
Dark Force Releasing recently released a nice looking Blu-ray in a 2K master that looks better than the movie likely deserves, and several new interviews with Lester and Joyner.
