Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

Enjoyable no-nonsense thriller, with a bunch of good actors giving clenched-jaw performances and some solid action, but there's a bit too much going on and it never really gets out of third gear. Instead of 'grim hitmen vs survivalists' or 'grim hitmen vs firewatcher', it's both of those and fire and a lightning storm, and the threads never quite coalesce into a climactic whole. Plus everything feels fairly contrived - the endangered kid is on his way to his uncle who is not only a sheriff but also a survivalist and then runs into not just a firewatcher but a firewatcher who is dealing with the trauma of not having saved some endangered kids the year before, but she can't just let hi use her radio because it just got struck by lightning an hour ago.

Rating: Solid but a little messy.