Rotten
It's often difficult to tell what's bad on purpose or just badly handled. The cargo shorts and fanny pack? Purposely funny. The slack pacing? Probably not.
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
Bad Ass
They messed with the wrong senior citizen.
2012 · 1h 31m · R
Action, Drama
Directed by
Craig Moss
Overview
Decorated Vietnam hero, Frank Vega returns home only to get shunned by society leaving him without a job or his high school sweetheart. It's not until forty years later when an incident on a commuter bus makes him a local hero where he's suddenly celebrated once again. But his good fortune suddenly turns for the worse when his best friend is murdered and the police aren't doing anything about it.
Director and cast
- Craig Moss Director
- Danny Trejo as Frank Vega
- Charles S. Dutton as Panther
- Ron Perlman as Mayor Williams
- Patrick Fabian as Officer Malark
- Joyful Drake as Amber Lamps
- John Duffy as Martin
- Harrison Page as Klondike Washington
- Richard Riehle as Father Miller
- Winter Ave Zoli as Tatiana
- Shalim Ortiz as Frank Vega (17-25 yrs)
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