It’s a movie about stuff.

The more I watch Tubi movies for How About Notflix the more I realize just how many Taken and Most Dangerous Game clones there are. It’s like the Ave Maria of movies, every direct-to-DVD director has to make their mark by putting out one of those films and I’m not sure how they get the funding or how much profit exactly they make by selling to digital distributors. But they must be making money somewhere because they keep coming out.

Due Justice is a Taken clone by director Javier Reyna who you may know from 2019 film Regionrat, a film that feels like it actually had some heart and soul behind it. Kellan Lutz plays Max, a man who finds himself in a pickle when his wife and brother are murdered and his daughter is taken by organ traffickers. The big bad guy of the film is Jeff Fahey who plays Ellis and is basically the only person with acting chops and talent in this entire film. Everyone else just kinda bumbles around reading their script.

I’m going to be honest with you about this film; I have no clue what was going on. And it’s not because I wasn’t paying attention but because the film is a massive incoherent mess with really bad writing, terrible acting, and really weird scene progression. Due Justice is the equivalent of that pizza sauce they put in Lunchables; generic to the point of being soulless and used in just about every bottom of the barrel similar food product.

I rarely ask if a movie “needed” to be made and this movie didn’t need to be made, outside of maybe teaching director Javier Reyna how to direct. Watching Reyna at work feels like watching a cashier who is clearly on their first day on the job and is still stumbling over basic concepts. Characters die off-screen, and for a film that is one hour and thirty seven minutes it is truly horribly paced.

I don’t have much to say about Due Justice because there isn’t much to say about Due Justice. Also the protagonist doesn’t really end up getting due justice so the whole film ends up lacking any sense of purpose.

Rating: F