EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on . As I’ll be exploring the films of Jason Trost this week, this movie has been reposted with lots of added new material.
What if you combined a superhero movie with Saw? Well, this would be it.
Directed, written and produced by Jason Trost, who made The FP and also stars in this movie as Charge, this movie finds him, Cutthroat (Lucas Till, who was Havok in X-Men: First Class and MacGyver in the reboot of the series), The Wall (Lee Valmassy) and Shadow (Sophie Merkley) waking up in an abandoned town, their powers gone and facing their arch foe Rickshaw (James Remar, always amazing) in the kind of death trap Arcade used to put the X-Men through.
This is probably as close as we’ll get to a Brat Pack movie. I kind of liked it way more than most reviews I’ve seen, as I liked the end of the superteam dynamics of the film, the way we learn about the heroes’ lives and origins through their actions. Plus, Charge must continually make tough choices that end up making their lives worse at every turn.
Did you read stuff like Grips and Aircel comics in the 90s? Or the post-Image grim and gritty comics made by comics fans that did one comic and never another one again? Do you like Stephen Platt? Then you’re going to like this way more than the average filmgoer.
There’s also a sequel, All Superheroes Must Die 2: The Last Superhero, that I need to find. There was also a comic book from the same universe and Jason Trost posted the first issue here.
If you’d like to know more about the filmmaker and how he approaches movies, check out the interview I did with him here.
You can watch this on Tubi.
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