The Gateway

Cast View all

	Shea Whigham	Parker
	Olivia Munn	Dahlia
	Zach Avery	Mike
	Bruce Dern	Marcus
	Frank Grillo	Duke
	Alexander Wraith	Louis
	Taegen Burns	Ashley
	Jackson James	Tommy
	Shannon Adawn	Detective King
	Nick Daly	Detective Bachman
	Mark Boone Junior	Gary
	Taryn Manning	Corey
	Mike O'Connell	Stu
	Michele Hicks	Sharon
	Brandon Williams	Jamal
	Ny'El Simmons	Tavian
	Maurice McKinney	Frankie
	Keith David	Terry
	Kendrix Lamaz Brown	Ronnie
	Gilbert Trejo	Juan
	Richard Strauss	Prison Guard
	Rosé Belara Young	Prostitute
	Jeffertitti Moon	Mexican Hit Man
	Curtis Harding	Minister
	Bree Holcombe	Undercover 1

Crew View all

Director	Michele Civetta
Writer	Alexander Felix, Andrew Levitas, Michele Civetta
Producer	Kenneth Altman, Stevie Curtis, W. Jeffery Frizzell, Anna Halberg, Stephen Israel, Kacie Lehner, Andrew Levitas, James T. Russell, Jeremy Salvador, Drew Sklar
Musician	Alec Puro
Photography	Bryan Newman

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My quick rating - 4.1/10. Too bad those behind the camera destroyed a fairly decent idea in this one. The movie just moves at a snail's pace and never realizes the potential it had. I like the idea of the overly interested social worker wanting to do well for a family. BUT then the writer (one of whom directed, so he is to blame for this) turns Shea Whigham into every other character flaw known to man wrapped up in one. So instead of maybe an over-zealous, possibly drunk, he also happens to have anger issues, drug problems, emotionally scarred, and I am sure there are more. Not only is it too much to believe, but also way too much for this particular actor to try and convince us. The rest of the cast is actually quite good. Olivia Munn stands out since not only is she believable as the mother wrapped up with the wrong guy, but also makes you care about what is happening, especially during the extremely drawn-out and pointless scenes. I cannot see why so much time is wasted on useless scenes and so little time is paid to the husband, who comes straight out of jail and immediately hits up the old boss (Frank Grillo) for another heist. Grillo is rarely in the flick, and the whole point of the crew is hardly explained. The robbery itself is more of an afterthought to what is going on, and all this gets wrapped up with like a 5-minute "lesson" being taught about the foster system at the end, which was more of a slap in the face to them than a wake-up call to the viewer. Lots of wasted talent on this one, and a generous 4 from me.

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