Corrective Measures

This movie was shot and made before we knew Bruce Willis had cognitive issues. If you like graphic novels and such! Then this movie is right up your alley. Give it a shot.....

I watched this movie on the same day I watched Ambulance and The Northman, this one turned out to be the most entertaining regardless of the fact it's budget was a small fraction of the other two. It had an interesting story with a blurred line between heroes and villains' and didn't try to pretend to be something it isn't. It was just a basic action movie with criminals having special superpowers and a nice little twist at the end. What I enjoyed the most was seeing Michael Rooker getting a decent role and carrying the movie.

Based on the comic book Corrective Measures by Grant Chastain, this movie was directed and written by Sean O'Reilly, who is the owner and operator of the comic book company Arcana Studio. The majority of filming took place in Vancouver, Canada.- except for a day of shooting in Atlanta, GA with Bruce Willis, who plays the not-in-general population criminal Julius "The Lobe" Loeb. San Tiburon is a super prison - literally, for supervillains - created in the wake of an accident caused by a company that now, ever so conveniently, runs the prison. Diego Diaz (Brennan Mejia) is the new inmate who gets in over his head when he protects Loeb from the vigilante Payback (Dan Payne, who was Dollar Bill in Watchmen) and earns the ire of Overseer Devlin (Michael Rooker, chewing scenery and not caring in between convention appearances). Tom Cavanagh, from Ed and the Reverse Flash from the TV show, is the best part of this movie, playing The Conductor, an inmate who shows the empathic Diego how to survive. Daniel Cudmore, who was Colossus in the Brya Singer-era X-Men movies is in this as Diamond Jim, while Kat Ruston, Kevin Zegers and Hayley Sales make up the support staff of the not-unlike Belle Reve prison. I really wanted to like this. I understand that Willis was limited and therefore, his performance comes off as weary instead of Hannibal Lecter, guiding the riot from solitary confinement. This movie also pulls a The Astrologer by having its wildest idea - a Phantom Zone that takes the Christian idea of Limbo and applies it to solitary confinement - be dashed off and forgotten just like the window to the galaxy that Craig Marcus Alexander shows off to his accountant. It does, however, have the best way to handle Willis. When taken off into solitary at the end, wearing a power negating helmet that looks like Xorn from the X-Men, they cover his face - it's probably not even him and the body double used in some shots - they just ADR his voice over a mouth that doesn't move. The Italian exploitation industry would be proud.

I've watched this movie a few times!! Seeing something different each time. Bruce as a Hannibal lecter...was good. I think there might be a shift change before the ending. Love it!!

These excellent actors tried with a terrible script- and a storyline right from junior high writing class- to make this work but, despite a pro production, this plot couldn't work. I had to fast forward through a lot of minutes of conversations that dragged on without purpose. Nothing worth the time imo.

The movie lacked severely in the category of focus...... I mean really... one of the guys gets his powers back that can electrocute a city block but he gets beat to death by a jailer? How? I mean rally how? No depth in scenery with regards to prison staff..... and can we take a second and agree the TV crew idea was an abysmal execution. The ending was a fabulous surprise. And the holy executioner was cool. For these 2 items they get 4 points. Director sucks though.