"A crack unit believe themselves to be in pursuit of poachers who kill protected animals for profit, but these baddies turn out to be all that and more: they kidnap children, burying them underground in coffins with a wifi connection so that they can broadcast live footage of the kids to their parents when they demand ransom money."
"Elite fighter Jessica handily wrecks their operation and now, more than a decade later, they're after revenge. The revenge takes the form of hunting this resourceful single mother, whom they have finally located despite a change of identity, through the bushland of South Africa, with a motley crew of villains all loosely connected to the enterprise she took down back in the day."
"The biggest problem with Outgunned though is that it seems to have fallen prey to one of the stupidest of modern issues in cinema: a luxuriously padded run time. This is not to gripe about long films per se, but in an era where streamers count not tickets sold but minutes watched, film-makers are incentivised to encourage longer films as a way to boost those figures."
Outgunned follows Jessica, an elite fighter who destroyed a criminal operation in Angola in 2013 that kidnapped children for ransom. Over a decade later, the surviving members of that organization, led by the sadistic Lazar, track her down in South Africa under her new identity. Jessica must survive their pursuit through the bushland as a resourceful single mother. While the film features intense action sequences and Richard Lukunku delivers an effective performance as the relentless villain, the narrative suffers from excessive padding, stretching what could be a compelling 90-minute thriller into a 134-minute runtime, likely inflated to boost streaming metrics.
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