(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="255" align="left"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img border="0" src="../stills/handler-poster.jpg" width="250" height="361"></td> </tr> </table> <p>Ryker (Chris Levine), an ex-marine turned hitman for the mob, wants out. Thing is, his boss Vinnie (Michael Pashan) won't have any of this - but he doesn't just want him dead, he wants to punish him before dying, and since he knows Ryker has risked his life getting a certain bag, he sends out his footsoldiers to try to get that bag - even if he doesn't even know what's in it. So Ryker hides out in a mansion he has equipped for defense, armed to the teeth with weapons provided by his sister (Carhy Baron) and best friend (Tim Banks), and waits for Vinnie's people, who seem to come at all hours of the day and night, sometimes on their own but more often in groups, and they try to take out Ryker - but to little avail, as Ryker has used his experience in the battlefield to be prepared for almost all eventualities - and thus Vinnie runs out of personnel over time, fighters and gunmen and -women whose bodies Ryker burns in his backyard. But Vinnie has other ways to get to Ryker, through his wife (Rachel Alig) or his army buddy (Adam Carbone) ... <p> <p>If you're into brutal action flicks, you're bound to like this one, as it has plenty of fights and shoot-outs, and the bodycount is well into the double digits (28 according to the IMDb, which sounds about right). However, <b>The Handler</b> is more than just a shoot-em-up, as it has a certain existentialist note to it, also represented in the bag that everyone's after, and hints at certain plot elements that are never spelt out suggest a much bigger and deeper picture than just a bunch of guys and girls fighting it out. But despite all the extra layers, this is a movie where the tension stays high throughout, and the fight scenes are all well-choreographed and executed, making this one pretty cool piece of genre entertainment. <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2021"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>