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‘Boneyard’ Review: There Isn’t Nearly Enough for Mel Gibson or 50 Cent to Do in Clunky Serial Killer Thriller
A real-life serial killing spree makes for mediocre pulp fiction in Asif Akbar’s film, which nominally stars Mel Gibson and Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson.
You might expect a film that begins with Mel Gibson announcing, “The Bible says we should rejoice in our suffering,” to be a little more high-minded than “ Boneyard.” But this trashy trawl through a fictionalized version of the “West Mesa Murders” — a still-unsolved southwestern crime spree in our century’s early years — is the kind of dubiously moralizing exploitation exercise that makes “Sound of Freedom” look like a noble class act by comparison. Likewise “inspired by true events,” Asif Akbar ’s movie alternates between lurid serial-killer suspense not far removed from the retro grindhouse ogling of concurrent “MaXXXine” and a convoluted procedural involving variably corrupt, conflicting investigators. Here, a similar discovery prompts police chief Carter (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) to assign partnered homicide detectives Young (Nora Zehetner) and Ortega (Brian Van Holt) as principal investigators.
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