‘Backtrace’ Trailer: Sylvester Stallone Chases A Bank Robber With Amnesia
Sylvester Stallonewill appear in the highly-anticipatedCreed IIthis month, and then next month, he’ll be seen the much-less-anticipatedBacktrace. This low-rent thriller finds Stallone playing a cop trying to solve a mystery surrounding a bank robbery gone wrong. The only suspect he has is a man with amnesia (played byMatthew Modine). Complicating matters is a doctor and a patient who want to exploit Modine to find his missing money. Watch theBacktracetrailer below.
Backtrace Trailer
I never thought I’d see the day where Sylvester Stallone would be second-billed behindThe Boy Next DooractorRyan Guzman, but here we are. Guzman is the lead of this thriller (I guess?), but the focus of this trailer is primarily on Stallone and Matthew Modine. Modine plays a suspect who suffers a brain injury during a heist. The injury leaves him with amnesia and lands him in a prison psychiatric ward, which inspires a fellow psychiatric ward inmate (Guzman) and a doctor (Meadow Williams) to bust him out with the hopes of tracking down the missing loot. Hot on their trail is a cop (Stallone) and an FBI agent (Christopher McDonald).
This trailer makesBacktracelook like a cross between theHeatknock-offDen of Thievesand the mostly forgotten 2007 Scott Frank thrillerThe Lookout. Stallone is still capable of turning in a good performance (Creed IIproves that), and it’s always nice to see Modine pop-up from time to time. Still, I’m not so sure about this. It looks like a Z-grade movie that got lucky by landing a few recognizable names. But maybe it’ll turn out to be a fun surprise. For all of its derivativeness, I enjoyed the trashy mayhem of the aforementionedDen of Thieves. IfBacktracecan capture some of that, it could be worth watching.
Backtraceopens in theaters and on demand by Lionsgate Premiere onDecember 14, 2018.
