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  • 2018
  • R
  • Lionsgate Premiere
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • Lionsgate Premiere
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, MacDonald (Matthew Modine) develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. Following his seventh year in evaluation, he is coerced by an inmate and a ward doctor (Ryan Guzman and Meadow Williams) to break out of prison and injected with a serum that forces him to re...

Directed By: Brian A. Miller

Written By: Mike Maples

  • 2018
  • R
  • Lionsgate Premiere
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • Lionsgate Premiere
  • 1 h 32 m

Backtrace

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
34
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, MacDonald (Matthew Modine) develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. Following his seventh year in evaluation, he is coerced by an inmate and a ward doctor (Ryan Guzman and Meadow Williams) to break out of prison and injected with a serum that forces him to re...

Directed By: Brian A. Miller

Written By: Mike Maples

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60
Dec 14, 2018
Throughout most of the movie’s running time, Modine is tasked with the majority of the heavy lifting, and he handles the burden admirably.
By Joe Leydon FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 2, 2021
The whole thing is really waxy and sad, like the immobile face of co-star Sylvester Stallone; although the chance to enjoy the always interesting, never-as-big-as-he-should-have-been Matthew Modine, still looking pretty fly with a shock of white-and-gold hair, is very welcome.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
30
Dec 13, 2018
A movie that very quickly becomes yet another story about people with guns chasing other people with guns, through featureless forests and abandoned buildings.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
25
Dec 7, 2018
There are laughs aplenty in the dialogue, which has several characters spout nonsensical lines — “You told me the title was clear.”
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
20
Mar 5, 2021
Time moves so slowly one begins to fear it may turn backwards and return us to the far distant opening credits.
By Donald Clarke FULL REVIEW

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33% Negative
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Production Company Diamond Films, Dreamscape Productions, Emmett/Furla Oasis Films, Grindstone Entertainment Group, Happinet(I)., Highland Film Group (HFG), Ingenious Media, Potato Eater Productions, The Fyzz Facility
Release Date Dec 14, 2018
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating R
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Tagline Some Crimes Never Let You Go.
Website https://www.lionsgate.com/movies/backtrace
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