Acts of Violence

Three Midwestern brothers, a crime lord, and an incorruptible cop are on a deadly collision course when the youngest brother’s fiancée is kidnapped by human traffickers. To save her, the MacGregor boys call on their military training — and the strength of family — to fight the most important battle of their lives: after human traffickers kidnap his brother's fiancée, a war veteran (Cole Hauser) teams up with his brothers (Shawn Ashmore and Ashton Holmes) to rescue her. Their search leads them to a cop investigating trafficking rings, Avery (Bruce Willis), who soon joins their cause to bring down the organization for good.

In the heart of Cleveland, crime lord Max (Mike Epps) is flooding the streets with toxic drugs and filling his fortresses with kidnapped women, organizing a human trafficking ring to expand his business. On his trail is Detective James (Bruce Willis), a tired cop who can’t break the case, coming up against frustrating procedural limits and superiors who don’t care. Mia (Melissa Bolona) is about to be married to Roman (Aston Holmes), but when her bachelorette party goes wrong, she’s kidnapped by Max’s goon, Vince (Sean Brosnan), and whisked away for processing, made to suffer before she’s sold off. Freaked out, Roman is comforted by the ex-military might of his brothers, Brandon (Shawn Ashmore) and Deklan (Cole Hauser), who band together to retrieve Mia from captivity, eschewing the dead-end task of reporting the incident to the police, arming themselves instead, moving in to attack Max while James struggles with the legalities of his job, watching the brothers ignore warnings and move in for the kill.

There's a vet named Deklan MacGregor (Cole Hauser), who is suffering from debilitating post traumatic stress disorder after two tours in places like Afghanistan. Deklan's younger brother Brandon (Shawn Ashmore) is also a vet, though perhaps not quite as psychologically wounded as Deklan. And the youngest MacGregor sibling, Roman (Ashton Holmes), attempts to keep his brothers on track while he tries to keep his emotions under control since it's his fiancée who is the kidnap victim. But, wait, you also get: the whole reason the MacGregor brothers get involved in trying to track down the whereabouts of their would be spouse and or sister-in-law, and to bring the nefarious sex traffickers to justice, is because the police forces assigned to a larger case involving Cleveland's sex trade have been spectacularly ineffective. That is brought home in one of the first scenes of the film, when partners James Avery (Bruce Willis) and Brooke Baker (Sophia Bush) burst into a downtown warehouse where several girls are being kept, only to discover the one victim they're trying to free has already expired.

• Bruce Willis as Detective James Avery
• Cole Hauser as Deklan MacGregor
• Shawn Ashmore as Brandon MacGregor
• Ashton Holmes as Roman MacGregor
• Melissa Bolona as Mia
• Sean Brosnan as Vince
• Sophia Bush as Detective Brooke Baker
• Mike Epps as Max Livington
• Tiffany Brouwer as Jessa MacGregor
• Jenna B. Kelly as Haley
• Patrick St. Esprit as Hemland
• Rotimi as Frank
• Matthew T. Metzler as Richard
• Kyle Stefanski as Davis
• Boyd Kestner as Stevens

Principal photography on the filming began in Cleveland, Ohio in March 2017. Aerial shots of Los Angeles included the Detective Samuel Avery, the Old Central Police Station and the reach of Cleveland.[4]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 0% based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 2.56/10.[5] At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 28 out of 100, based on six critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[6]

• Acts of Violence at IMDb
• Acts of Violence at Rotten Tomatoes