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| Scott Kane (Drew Fuller) in The Kane Files. |
By John Esther
How many times do villains need to be told: if you hire the very best to execute an execution you better hold up your end of the bargain when he or she succeeds, unless you want to be the assassin's next target.
Scott Kane (Drew Fuller) is a hard working man, loves his wife (Whitney Able) and his son, Owen (Ethan Mouser). No longer a hired assassin, Scott is barely making ends meet. But when his son needs a heart transplant, at the cost of $250,000 (cough, national health care), Scott is forced backed into his life of crime. A little John Q redux.
After he holds up his end of the bargain, sort of, Scott winds up in prison, but his son is still not on the donor list. Someone, maybe some two, has reneged on the deal. Now it is payback time.
Written and directed by Benjamin Gourley, The Kane Files moves back and forth in time and space to explain how Scott wound up where he is at the beginning of the film, which is neither the beginning nor the end of this chapter in his life. The problem is there is too much overlapping of given information, as if audiences today cannot remember how a film started halfway through the film. I realize attention spans are shorter these day, but this is an independent film. Give your viewers more credit.
Having said that, The Kane Files is still a pretty good and gritty story, filled with intense scenes of inner conflict and outer hostilities by seemingly everyday men. The characters here are pretty developed, except Thompson (William Devane), who is a caricature. And the actors play them with various success -- with the notable exception of Ethan Embry, whose performance as a crooked cop confused by his turn of events is superb.
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