Revenge is a dish served as too many smeary, overcooked courses in God Is a Bullet, an exploitation slog about a cult kidnapping and a good man’s tumble into hell.

A tighter edit that prioritized the rescue plot over meandering character development probably could have turned “God Is a Bullet” into a fun airplane movie, but Cassavetes’ arthouse ambitions always resurface at inopportune times.

If God is a bullet, it can’t come fast enough.

Nick Cassavetes returns with a nihilistic and cathartic revenge movie. [Full review in Spanish]