![]() Yet even with these grounded stakes, in which whoever has the gun has the power, the script tediously see-saws between moments in which Rich and his family are free and fighting, or whether they’re tied up again, the operation resuming. This is where the movie's false marketing is especially tedious-there are no AK-47s and masked men here as on the poster, but just two freaked out, grungy brothers armed with handguns, desperate for a solution, but who can’t even pump gas without killing someone. ![]() Jamie forces Rich at gunpoint to perform a makeshift surgery on Mathias while Rich's own family is tied up (including scowling, mostly silent Frank). ![]() Then the brothers show up, having trailed Rich back from a hospital gig. Murray invests in this macho soap opera a bit, but the scene has the same takeaway as a later scene where Willis suddenly has a private, tearful self-reckoning-it feels completely phony. ![]() Slumped onto a rocking chair, Willis takes some angsty sips of iced tea and then barks at Rich for being a loser, because it’s Rich’s error during an emergency operation that lead to Rich being sued and having to move his wife and daughter in with Frank and his wife. But before this, Matt Eskandari's “Survive the Night” feigns the drama of a bond between tough-love Frank (Willis) and his medical professional son Rich ( Chad Michael Murray). ![]()
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