PREVIEW: Blackout (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Josh Duhamel (Transformers), Abbie Cornish (Sucker Punch), Nick Nolte (Tropic Thunder), Lou Ferringo Jr. (Urban Myths), Omar Chaparro (How to Be a Latin Lover), Pedro Lopez (Looking for Lions)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Sam Macaroni (Guest House), director; Van B. Nguyen (film debut), writer; Michael Mendelsohn (Wild Horses) and Jim Steele (The Substitute), producers; Brandon Campbell (Funny Story), composer; Mateo Londono (The Valet), cinematographer; Laurence Cohen (Undercurrent), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A man named Cain (Duhamel) wakes up in a Mexican hospital with no memory of how he got there, or even who he is. He quickly finds himself fighting back against a cartel who have locked down the hospital, and scrambles to piece together his true identity as well as why the cartel seems to be targeting him…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Josh Duhamel goes full Jason Bourne – including the inconvenient amnesia – in this contained action-thriller, set almost entirely in a Mexican hospital.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 14TH OCTOBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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