Ron Perlman is back as a retired assassin who has taken up a bakery business, but is forced back into action when his son leaves his daughter with him and then gets killed. It is a revenge story mixed with the loving family relationships (sort of).

This film is not very good. I did like Ron Perlman and Emma Ho, who played Perlman’s granddaughter Delphi, together. They had a sweet chemistry and they did work well as a pair. Emma Ho did a nice job despite not speaking for most of the movie because of a trauma she had suffered a few years prior. This is easily the best part of the film.

Otherwise, the character of “The Baker” was very much like multiple characters we have seen over the years with not much new added to the mix.

The story was as you would expect. I have seen this done dozens of times, and most of them better. There are so many implausible moments that it overwhelms the good parts with Perlman and Ho.

Harvey Keitel is here playing the same character he plays in most of his movies. He is totally wasted. However, Keitel does appear in the most bizarre and unexpectedly silly mid-credit scene that I won’t spoil, but will have you trying to figure out why the creative people behind the film tacked this on.

Things happen without explanation and the entire plot was just tossed out to see what stuck. As I said, Perlman and Ho were engaging together and I wish there was more substance to that part of the story because they certainly could have elevated this movie to something more than just a clichéd revenge film.

2 stars