Rollins was living a happy but relatively quiet life with Brian Rollins and her step-daughter Audrey, until the fateful day she stepped into a neighborhood coffee shop. She easily handles the drug-addled stalker threatening to kill the barista, but she is unprepared for the media circus when the cell-phone video goes viral. Unfortunately, it also attracts the unwelcome attention of “Patrick,” the trafficking kingpin she had hopped she killed during her escape.
Inevitably, he sends a professional to recapture her. When that does not work, he targets her family, forcing Rollins to finally share her full history. There are cops investigating the incidents, but they are much help.
If you think a title like Tack Back evokes a certain well-known action franchise, you’re maybe not wrong, but this is definitely the bargain basement version. It looks cheap and the predictable storyline basically chugs along on autopilot. However, the action and dramatic chemistry shared by real-life married partners Gillian and Michael Jai White works quite well. Seeing them share domestic scenes and fight together will make you want to see them in a bigger-budgeted film.
Take Back was produced entirely during the height of the pandemic, so you have to admire Sesma’s tenacity and perseverance. Nonetheless, it is impossible to miss the glaring continuity error when suddenly everyone of is wearing face-masks in public, when the rest of the film, before and after, is entirely mask-free.
