“2:22? is highly charged, and that’s its strength. Filmmaker Phillip Guzman’s noir styling detonates. Set against the frigid backdrop of a big city that looks like Toronto, the sordid milieu of the crime world is sharply scoped.”2:22? gets its highest numbers from cinematographer Philip Roy’s dead-of-winter lensings.
What ultimately does this bang-gang movie in is that the lead character of Gully, played by co-screenwriter Mick Rossi, is an uninspiring nondescript. Although Gully sports the right mean-streets, lone-knight nature with its requisite wounds — busted relationship, trouble with booze, lonely abode — he never jells as an appealing bad guy. 
