'Bushwick' review: Dave Bautista steals the show as a soldier in a second civil war
America on the brink of a second civil war is a timely concept that only got timelier last November, and gritty action-thriller "Bushwick" exploits that frightening "what if" scenario from a boots-on-the-ground perspective. Even if the low-budget execution is uneven at times, there's enough snap to the filmmaking, and enough raw power in the premise, to make for solid B- movie excitement . A surprisingly potent performance from professional wrestler (and "Guardians of the Galaxy" co-star) Dave Bautista should add to the appeal for a young male audience . While Bautista will surely be central to any marketing campaign, the focus of the movie is grad student Lucy (Brittany Snow), who becomes our avatar into a disconcerting alternate universe in which the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick is under military invasion. After witnessing her boyfriend's brutal death just outside an abandoned subway station , Lucy makes her way through streets littered w...