Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest actioner is a bit of a disappointment to be honest. It's not the action, trust me. When it comes to action, this movie delivers in spades. Which makes it even more irritating that flaws dragged the movie down.
Like I said earlier, the action delivers in spades, the movie definitely surpassed my expectations in that department. Every bullet results in a copious amount of blood. There are also some fairly graphic aftermaths of disemboweling and some scattered body parts after an accident that were very welcome surprises.
Now on to what dragged the movie down.
Don't expect the action to be non-stop, trust me when it happens, it HAPPENS, but the movie gets very talky on several occasions, which wouldn't be an issue if the plot was interesting, which it wasn't. Basically Schwarzenegger's character is in the DEA (as you can tell from his hat on the cover) and he's being double-crossed by somebody and there's an investigation and whatever. All I really cared about was the action.
The entirety of Schwarzenegger's crew (including the woman) were all the tattooed macho muscle-bound tough guys you would expect from this kind of movie, and as such you an expect a lot of swearing, particularly "F"-bombs. Now, I am definitely not one to complain about language, but there are scenes where these people can't get past a single sentence without a "f*ck you" or "f*ck that" or "suck my d*ck" and so on. It was amusing for a little while, but it got very old very fast.
Now, the plot does take some interesting turns as the movie goes on and it progressively gets more and more engaging, but the good final 30 minutes can't make up for the OK first hour.
Oh, and did I mention the action is incredible?
6 out of 10 garbage bags
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