Chris_Mac_25 As an actor Rob Van Dam makes a great wrestlerAs an action movie this makes a great comedy His enthusiasm in his delivery of the most basic of dialogue is hilarious. Bautista, in his first acting gig, looks embarrassed like he can tell how bad the end product is going to look. Van Dam plows on with the unbridled enthusiasm of a child as the movie lurches from bad to worse. Watch for the laughs Take a shot every time Van Dam shakes his head in confusion

zardoz-13 "Wrong Side of Town" looks like the kind of action-thriller that either Stallone or Seagal could have made in their respective primes. Indeed, this David DeFalco epic appears pretty threadbare, but it wears its basic budget well. This is a formulaic, fist-for-fist, bullet-for-bullet, tough-guy actioneer that doesn't try to be anything more than it is. This virtually plot less narrative possesses a sense of spontaneity sets it apart from most crime melodramas which involve a complicated heist, kidnapping or something else. Everything transpires throughout an evening so it is somewhat unified in terms of time, place, and setting. The action takes place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and this is a fresh break from the usual metropolitan city. The performances may not hoist any eyebrows, but nobody looks like they were reading their dialogue off a cue card off-camera. Rod Van Dam looks more like a wrestler than a Navy SEAL, but then this is a movie. Aside from Van Dam's incongruous casting, writer & director David DeFalco has rounded up some fairly realistic genre types that we haven't seen before that adds some distinction to this minor action piece. Believe it or not, "Wrong Side of Town" has a couple of surprises so that it is not entirely predictable.The plot opens with the villains killing one of their own who informed on them. This scene introduces the chief villain and his lieutenants and provides us some idea about how dangerous they are. Later, the chief villain reprimands his worthless younger brother about not doing anything stupid. The younger brother who never does anything that he is told is a stereotypical character just as the all-powerful crime boss. A stupid, coked-up, low-lifer tries to rape Dawn (Lara Grice of "Soul Men")the wife of war hero Bobby Kalinowski. Bobby (Rod Van Dam of "Bloodmoon") is a former Navy SEAL intervenes in the nick of time. The low-lifer charges him with a knife and the our hero deflects the attack. The low-lifer collides with a sofa and accidentally embeds the blade in himself. Naturally, the restaurant/crime boss Seth (Jerry Katz of "Black Russian") blows his fuse when he learns about this tragedy. He orders his army of goons to kill our hero and he puts a bounty of $100-thousand on our hero. David Bautista has an incredible scene with Ja Rule in the park when argue about the future of our hero. A nitty, gritty, somewhat bare bones thriller with a bare-knuckled sense of humor. Literally, our hero and his wife go to the wrong side of town and have to fight their way back."Wrong Side of Town" is a realistic movie in the terms that everything that happens could actually take place. Although some contrivance occurs in the story, most of what happens looks genuine.

matthewmercy In Wrong Side of Town (a film that deserves some kind of award for having the most bogus and misleading DVD artwork in recent memory) ex-WWE wrestler Rob Van Dam plays a family man who gets in hot water with a vengeful crime boss, and has to battle his way out of it. Luckily, Van Dam's character happens to be an former Navy SEAL... Look, this film is terrible. I mean, truly awful. For a start, the DVD cover features prominently WWE big gun David 'Batista' Bautista, but as Van Dam's old Navy buddy, he only turns up in a couple of scenes, and majestically unconvincing ones they are at that. Mind you, even Bautista has more screen presence and charisma that the woeful RVD, who, in terms of acting ability, makes his nearly-namesake Jean-Claude Van Damme (Van Dam originally adopted the ring name because he vaguely resembles the 'Muscles from Brussels') look like Robert Mitchum by comparison. Featuring a shockingly amateurish script, softly-softly fight scenes that just don't cut it, and lots of appalling acting (even from the non-wrestlers), this film sucks on every level. It's the kind of film in which a man can get shot in the leg, only for the police to send him home in a taxi rather than ordering him to hospital. It's the kind of film in which the leading man arms himself with lots of guns and knives, and dresses in black for the final showdown with the villains, and slips on his sunglasses...even though it's the middle of the night. It's the kind of film in which, after beating up a load of street trash, one ex-military tough guy says to another 'Just like old times...' It's also full of odd gambits that left me scratching my head, like the bizarre James Bond-inspired opening credits, a lingering shot of topless adult film star Stormy Daniels, and rapper Ja Rule turning up in a cameo part that should have led him to fire his agent; any day-player could have took the small role of the generic dirtbag 'gangsta' he plays here. Even in the largely worthless pantheon of dodgy genre pics that attempt to showcase wrestling stars in the lead roles, Wrong Side of Town hits a new low. Avoid, and then some.

csanctis This is one of those crap movies with poor actors. Rob Van Dam doesn't have a clue about interpreting, or what so ever! They managed to make every single fight into a "please guys, don't make me hurt you" scene. You already know exactly what is about to happen, since the first scene. Don't bother spending one and a half hour watching this! I will regret it forever! Bobby (Rob Van Dam) gets really hurt since the beginning and he is always OK during the fights. When they are trying to hide in the car park with the mercedez, Clay (Edrick Browne) parked the car with the lights on!!!! Then the bikes pass, the car is shown with the lights on, and in the next scene the car has the lights off! Completely bad produced and directed!