Arts & EntertainmentMoviesMovies Now  Review: 'Mission Park' a
clunky tale of murder, friendship
MoviesReviewsEntertainmentCrime, Law and JusticeFBISean Patrick
FlaneryWill Rothhaar  A talented quartet of young actors can't
surmount the wall-to-wall clichés that comprise "Mission Park,"
an earnest, not terribly convincing action thriller as generic
as its title. Though writer-director Bryan Anthony Ramirez keeps
things moving apace, he trots out so many familiar tropes that
it's often like watching a highlights reel from a lifetime's
worth of urban crime dramas.  The movie, set in San Antonio,
finds four childhood friends, who as kids were jointly involved
in a botched restaurant robbery, reuniting as 20ish adults on
opposite sides of the law: Brothers Bobby (a strong Jeremy Ray
Valdez) and Julian (Will Rothhaar) are newbie FBI agents, while
Jason (Walter Perez) and Derek (Joseph Julian Soria) have
become, respectively, a major drug kingpin and his right-hand
man.  But Jason and Derek don't initially know th