
Year: 2019
Rated NR
Rating: * * * Stars
Cast: Stephen Lang, Fred Williamson, William Sadler
2019's VFW is my latest review. It has a cast of comfortable shoe, character actors from the past (William Sadler, David Patrick Kelly, Martin Kove, George Wendt). These actors dons Glocks, fists, shotguns, and machetes for some ghastly, gory amusement. If only the lighting was just a little better I could see the corollary of their carnage. Oh well. You can't go wrong with VFW's background music (by Steve Moore) which feels like something a modern-day John Carpenter would have concocted.

VFW's running time is right on the money for 92 minutes. Most of these minutes involve grisly killings, lots of alcohol consumption, and kooky, tough guy dialogue. If you like grindhouse suture with plenty of red corn syrup splattered on the screen, then VFW will give you your horror action fix. And if you like a John Carpenter version of Assault on Precinct 13 with old-timer drinking buddies instead of cops and inmates, then VFW will update your longing for all things 1976 (or 2005 if you dug the remake).

Written by Jesse Burleson
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