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Review: Every Last One of Them

Paul Sloan plays a former special ops guy looking in a small town for his missing drug-addicted daughter. He runs afoul of Jake Weber, who basically owns the entire town…and is very clearly involved in whatever has happened to Sloan’s daughter. The only person in town who seems in any way supportive of Sloan is local sheriff Mary Christina Brown. Michael Madsen appears in flashbacks as Sloan’s mechanic buddy, Richard Dreyfuss plays Sloan’s former boss and mentor, and Taryn Manning is Weber’s tough sister.   A wildly eclectic cast is wasted or miscast in this dreadful 2021 Christian Sesma ( “Pay Dirt” with Luke Goss and Val Kilmer, “Take Back” with Mickey Rourke and Michael Jai White) action-thriller. Every element of the story here is familiar from other action films, and almost every element fails to convince. I mean, I’ve seen better latter-day Steven Seagal films than this. Even some of the ones where he spends most of his time sitting in a chair because he’s too freaking fat