5lbs of Pressure

2024

Action / Crime / Romance / Thriller

29
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 68% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 1932 1.9K

ex-con

Plot summary

Fresh out of prison after serving time for murder, Adam returns to his old stomping grounds to seek out a son who doesn't know him. Eli, the brother of the man he killed is looking for revenge. Mike, is trying to escape a life of crime living under the thumb of his gangster Uncle.

Director

Phil Allocco Photo
Phil Allocco

Top cast

Savannah Steyn Photo
Savannah Steyn as Lori
Luke Evans Photo
Luke Evans as Adam
Rory Culkin Photo
Rory Culkin as Mike
Fahim Fazli Photo
Fahim Fazli as Jabar
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1 hr 50 min
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1012.82 MB
1280*534
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by xermanu 5 / 10

Slow mess getting nowhere

Initially looking like another redemption story, and other secondary characters crossing paths. Possibly even hinting some upcoming action scene Unfortunately nothing happened. Almost 2 hours of characters struggling to tell their stories and how they want to get far from their demons, but as time passes by you start feeling it's goin to be a fraud. And it's exactly that. Could have skipped majority of the 2nd hour and just leave the last 5 minutes and would have been the same. Or even better as you would get one hour back. Acting is sort of ok but it's a shame they could not be used in a better way.
Reviewed by DilioD 5 / 10

Don't Bother Watching

Poor acting. I would say everyone in this film does some pretty bad acting except Luke Evans, but even his character had the stereotypical Brooklyn accent and solemn tone. Some cliché scenes like the AA meeting where someone speaks to the group, then guess who speaks next - Luke Evans. The son looks like he's 30 but plays a character that I think is supposed to be around 17. (His mom says he's "impressionable", so that makes me think teens.) In one scene Adam (Luke Evans) says to his son that he was his age when he committed a murder. We know he was in jail for 16 years, so that would put Adam at around 33 years old, however Luke Adams is 44, and to me he looks like he's in his 50s in this film.The drug dealer uncle, sitting at his desk in an auto repair shop with a safe on the desk is pretty lame. All the dim lighting is cliché of the seedy drug underworld. The Jamaican accent of the female drug dealer isn't very good, not a genuine accent. I can never understand why casting can't cast actors with genuine accents, especially for accents that so many of us are familiar with.The film takes a long time to get to the real story, it was probably in the last quarter of the film that I realized where it was going. I prefer to know in the first quarter what the film is about and let it unfold from there. I wanted to stop watching it many times but was too invested to stop so I let it play, probably skipped ahead a couple times.
Reviewed by Prismark10 4 / 10

5lbs of Pressure

Based on director Phil Allocco's own short movie from 2005, The Mirror.5lbs of Pressure sinks under its own weight of unoriginality and a banal script.Adam (Luke Evans) is out on parole after serving time for killing a youth. He has returned to his own neighbourhood to connect with his estranged wife and teenage son.His parole officer is not happy about this especially as Adam has also got a job as a bartender at the Mirror Bar. It's a recipe for disaster and Adam will violate his parole conditions.Eli is the brother of the youth that Adam killed 16 years earlier. When he learns that Adam is back, hr wrestles with his conscience as to whether to seek revenge.Mike (Rory Culkin) is a dim young man living under the shadow of his drug dealing uncle Leff (Alex Pettyfer.) He has looked out for Mike since his mum died.Now Mike wants to break out on his own and score a solo drug deal. Not realising that he is too naive and idiotic.Mike also recognised Adam as a killer. He also has an idea to rob the Mirror Bar and pin the blame on Adam.You just know these characters will collide one night. Cheaply made with the city of Manchester standing in for New York. It's not gritty or even that interesting.This kind of film has been done scores of time before and mostly better.
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