“Adverse” (** out of four) was fairly routine pulp about a recently released felon (Thomas Ian Nicholas) who works as a rideshare driver and soon finds that his sister (Kelly Arjen) is indebted to a dangerous crime syndicate (led by Mickey Rourke) and he returns to the vicious criminal underworld to free her and settle the score. Not the worst of its grungy ilk but film doesn’t have style or spark to distinguish itself from far too many other “Taxi Driver” ripoffs. Lou Diamond Phillips, Sean Astin, and Penelope Ann Miller are all wasted in throwaway roles; Rourke mumbles and sleepwalks his way through his umpteenth role as a thug but by now even his most “adverse” fans may wish he just made “The Wrestler 2.”