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On his first official day of retirement, Detective Shaw (Josh Duhamel) is called back to the precinct when a blood-drenched teenager named AJ (Dylan Sprouse) surrenders with a chilling ultimatum: he has buried Shaw's teenage son alive. Plunged into a living nightmare, Shaw is forced to revisit a trail of grisly homicides as the oxygen in his son's remote grave runs out. In a pulse-pounding race against the clock, Shaw must navigate a precinct on the brink of mutiny and a suspect who thrives on psychological warfare, as his investigation unearths a devastating truth: Shaw wasn't chosen at random.
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Leslie Felperin Guardian 6d
2/5
For all its cack-handedness, there’s some effort here to grapple with issues around institutional and personal guilt and the wrongs done to young people that might turn them into smirking, giggling serial killers. Go to Full Review Carla Hay Culture Mix 4d
Neglected can be an accurate description of how this horrible movie's filmmakers neglected to make a good movie. This tacky drama goes downhill as soon as the cop protagonist has less than 10 hours to solve three murders. Go to Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 5d
A suspenseful, intense and exhilarating crime thriller. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Rich 5h Sooo bad! It was like they were competing to see whose acting was worse. It was a blind date, and in the intro you knew it was a mistake, but you're not a quitter and you gave it a chance... umm, nope! A detective that gets squeamish at the sight of blood? I see a lot of movies weekly, and you have to take the bad with the good, but sorry, I don't know how this made it to the big screen. See more robert b 11h fast paced, well written & acted action thriller. my wife even enjoyed it! See more Jazzy 2d Loved this movie - it was a perfect balance of a good movie plot with twists and turns, but also brought awareness to some underground systemic issues that occur within our mental health and troubled youth systems. See more Tom B 2d Just plain awful. Sorry. Writing, acting, plot, cinematography ... Allllll are horrendous See more Roger 3d Neglected- great title for a movie with an interesting idea for a story but they neglected to find actors who could act to be in it. See more Don 3d For a well-used plotline, it could have been managed much better. The 'villan's' motivation was stretched to cover a lot of material. When local LE cannot manage things but tries to and interferes with outside resources (couldn't clearly tell if County of State) that is just absurd. See more Read all reviews
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David Lipper

Director

Josh Duhamel

Detective Shaw

Dylan Sprouse

The Kid

David Lipper

Mayor Richards

Til Schweiger

Capt. Haas

Elena Sanchez

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Synopsis On his first official day of retirement, Detective Shaw (Josh Duhamel) is called back to the precinct when a blood-drenched teenager named AJ (Dylan Sprouse) surrenders with a chilling ultimatum: he has buried Shaw's teenage son alive. Plunged into a living nightmare, Shaw is forced to revisit a trail of grisly homicides as the oxygen in his son's remote grave runs out. In a pulse-pounding race against the clock, Shaw must navigate a precinct on the brink of mutiny and a suspect who thrives on psychological warfare, as his investigation unearths a devastating truth: Shaw wasn't chosen at random.
Director
David Lipper
Producer
David Lipper, Robert A. Daly Jr., Ryan Winterstern, Denise Loren, Mark Canton, Dorothy Canton
Screenwriter
Adam G. Levine, David Lipper
Distributor
Inaugural Entertainment
Production Co
Latigo Films
Rating
R (Some Language|Violence/Bloody Images)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 8, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 33m