As if to illustrate the hypothetical “So you think you’re having a bad day?,” Canadian thriller “Hammer” puts its characters through a Rube Goldbergian obstacle course of peril in the immediate hou…
As if to illustrate the hypothetical “So you think you’re having a bad day?,” Canadian thriller “Hammer” puts its characters through a Rube Goldbergian obstacle course of peril in the immediate hours after a hijacked drug deal. The pileup of disasters is such that this tale might easily have been spun as some kind of grotesque comedy. But writer-director’ second feature plays it straight, narrowly evading viewer disbelief via strong principal performances and sufficiently urgent execution.
Only Chris makes it to town , where he’s spotted driving recklessly by errand-running Stephen. Dad quickly sees through his bloodied, panicked offspring’s jumble of fibs, sussing at least part of the in-progress emergency’s gist. Things immediately get worse as the two learn that an understandably enraged Adams has taken Chris’ little brother Jeremy hostage pending return of his money, contraband, and main squeeze.
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