D4 is an action/horror film that integrates those two genres nicely.  It has the same testosterone-fueled energy that made the original Predator so much fun, and I enjoyed D4 more than that movie’s sequels, remakes, and knock-offs.  It is an independent film that knows its audience, knows where it wants to go, what it wants to do along the way, and doesn’t hold back in getting there.  It’s a two-fisted, gun-toting, good time monster movie.

D4 is a long out of use government facility with a considerable amount of mystery surrounding it.  Think of Area 51, and you have some clue.  Set out in the woods in the middle of nowhere, with a fence encompassing it to keep conspiracy theorists and amateur investigators at bay, it has become the stuff of legend.  It is suggested that the government is still doing top secret work at the military complex, and all sorts of other wild ideas abound.

A doctor with plenty of money to spare believes her son has been kidnapped and is being held at the facility.  For what purpose, she doesn’t know, but she’s pretty sure it isn’t for mere rehab.  What’s a mom to do?  Well, with the money she has access to, she hires a band of ex-special forces operatives to go into the D4 facility and rescue her son.
It seems easy enough for the team members, until they arrive at D4 anyway.  They are packed with enough firepower to take down a small country, but there’s something bigger than them, and a lot more resistant to bullets than them, roaming the secret facility’s grounds.  Whatever this science experiment gone wrong is, one thing for sure is that it’s mean and likes to kill.

D4 has won several festival awards, and for good reason.  Writer/director/star Darrin Dickerson put a lot of love and craft into D4.  What could have been a derivative and formulaic exercise, Dickerson and his team have made feel fresh, fun, and exciting.

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John Jason

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