Set in the future where the economy has completely crumbled, leaving everyone broke and at the mercy of a gang of biker mobsters. A young boy's parents are brutally executed by said goons who leave him only injured and to be taken in by a farm couple for the next ten years. When the corrupt organization returns to dispose of his surrogate parents it's officially the last straw, so the now grown boy sets out for vengeance.
This is one amateurish pantload of a movie. The script, acting, camera-work... all sucks. Almost everything involved in the premise is just so poorly (or just NON) established that I found it virtually impossible to give one shred of a shit about what this main character is going through. The farmer who takes on the role of his father taught him how to chop wood and shoot cans off a fence post which, in turn, made him the ultimate badass (??) who continually breaks out into a pretty dead on Snake Plissken impression, to his credit. The revenge angle is very much underplayed and absolutely no intensity is felt (for me, at least) during any rare scene in which he's up against an adversary. In all, "Grim" contained numerous elements the writer/director had no doubt noted from other KNOWN revenge films, but just had no idea how to compile it all into a coherently structured or moderately engaging story.
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