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Les (Brant McCrea), a vigilante also known as The Ghoul, has
spent the last ten years in prison for killing a cop (Matthew W. Miles) -
true, it was a very violent cop of the torture-your-suspects variety, but
a cop still ... but now he's out, and everyone seems after him to kill
him, from the deceased cop's partner Dave (Dave Cartwright) to the hitmen
of Elion (Jonez Jones), the very man who has killed his family and in the
process "taken his soul" - or so Les thinks. Les, it has to be
said here, is an almost unstoppable killing machine, and he has no
problems killing Elion's henchmen while he somehow drags Dave onto his
side, and there's only one human who means something to him, Alex (Shira
Barber), who wants him to give everything up, skip town and for the two of
them to lead a normal life. But Les is a man on a mission, and he doesn't
waver - even if he leaves this level of reality for the netherworld in the
process ... Chicago Rot is a rather unique experience to
be sure. While it starts as a rather violent serialkiller movie with a
predilection for skinnings, and with elements of gangster and cop and even
superhero movies thrown into the mix, it by the by leaves the world as we
know it (from experiences, film and TV) behind for another plane of
existence, and thus becomes more and more over-the-top in a comicbook sort
of way in the process, but without any irony - which makes this movie so
fascinating. Plus, one just has to love the cast of characters of this
movie that refuse to be black or white and are all the more interesting
for it, and are portrayed by a very able ensemble. Well worth a look!
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