I am a huge action movie fan: Rambo, Action Jackson, Universal Soldier, Bloodsport -- you get the picture. This is a stupid, lazy, unentertaining movie. I spent most of the movie rolling my eyes and fast forwarding through the relentless, boring, uninspired, unrealistic, stunt double fight scenes. It is just so many clichés piled on top of each other.
Let's check all of the cliché boxes, shall we?
Pretty, way out-of-his-league long suffering girlfriend that would not stay with this guy for 10 second in real life - check!
Literally thousands of bullets shot and none hit the action star anywhere - check!
Almost point blank (I'm talking 6 feet away) heavy machine gun fire missing the action star - check!
Bad guy and action star "run out of bullets at same time and fist fight" - check!
Bad guy and action star get more bullets then "run out of bullets at same time and fist fight" FOUR more times (no exaggeration) - check!
Fight in building with nonsensical sparks and smoke coming from unmanned, closed factory - check!
No police for 20 minutes even after four people killed and thousands of rounds fired - check!
High-powered 3,000 feet per second .308, .223 and 7.62 X 54 bullets from machine gun (in real life able to penetrate a military Kevlar® vest) easily blocked by standard 1/2" drywall, a regular wooden chair (like in grade school) and a flimsy hospital operating table - check!
Instead of just shooting the good guy and being done with the movie, the bad guy wants to "torture and tell the good guy the sinister plans before killing him." Good guy kills bad guy and gets away with the girl - check!
After telling him his sinister plans, Instead of just shooting the good guy, bad guy wants to have "fist fight with good guy proving to the bad guy that he's still got it". Good guy kills bad guy and gets away - check!
Good guy proves his is forgiving and righteous man when he walks away and lets bad guy off hook in end of movie. After all bad guy has done, good guy simply can't kill him because of good guys true heart of justice. BUT WAIT! When good guy turns his back, "bad guy double crosses him and tries to kill good guy!" Good guy notices in very last second and kills bad guy. End of movie. Believe it or not this scene did NOT happen in this movie - GOTCHA!. This is the ONLY cliché the director left out!
Awful, awful, awful movie. Spending an afternoon plucking your short hairs or counting your body moles would be time far better spent.
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