After losing contact with a clandestine energy-research facility, a powerful venture capitalist contracts an elite team of operatives to retrieve the physicist who holds the key to an unprecedented alternate energy source.
Acting
Eric Roberts in maybe 3 scenes, clearly shot in one afternoon.
Production
The 'clandestine facility' appears to be a rented office park.
Director
Nicolas Mezzanatto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was produced by Anchor Bay, who in the 2010s became notorious for scooping up cheap action VOD content and slapping recognizable names like Roberts on covers to move units at Walmart.
The 'infinite energy MacGuffin' plot hit peak saturation in the 2010s direct-to-video market, with roughly 47 films using identical premises. BlackJacks distinguishes itself by being the one where you remember absolutely nothing afterward.
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