Joseph Lucky (Nathan Hill) is a cop with a blessed life and a beautiful wife named Esmay (Mary Annegeline). Although one day whilst out talking with his sister-in-law out in his car parked outside his house, two women break in and murder Esmay.

Overcome with grief, Joseph vows revenge on the people who arranged the hit on his wife and is willing to do anything to get justice. However, a little martial arts training wouldn’t go amiss before going into action.

Revenge of the Gweilo (a foreigner, especially a westerner) is an action movie written and directed by Nathan Hill. Under his production company, Hill and his team seem to have set their sights on making the kind of movie you’d find by mistake one night and love it for its absurdity.

The problem is that although Hill’s movies seem to be evoking the kind of films that are so good that they’re bad, there’s just something missing. There are clearly a lot of recognisable tropes in Hill’s movies and they are used to remind audiences of the worst of cinema. The trouble is that you may feel left behind unless you’re in on the joke and know what they’re going for.

For example, it’s all well and good to do a white saviour movie if you’re making fun of that dated trope. It’s just that Revenge of The Gweilo takes itself all too seriously. So, those who don’t realise what the movie is doing will just think it’s another unoriginal action movie.

There’s also something quite pleasing about stumbling across a movie you didn’t know existed, only to laugh at the earnestness of filmmakers who tried something and got it so terribly wrong. With films like Revenge of The Gweilo though, the cheesiness and predictability are intentional which may make the audience feel like the movie is trying to give them something they think they’ll like.

Movies such as The Velosipastor and Sharknado are so over the top and tongue-in-cheek that the audience enjoys the silliness because that’s what the filmmakers intended. Watching Revenge of The Gweilo feels like it’s just trying to cash in on an audience they think is easily fooled.

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