First 50 mins boring as hell, after that bit action with bad cgi
I don't know what this baloney is about. Did de Niro lose a bet? sometimes it looks like de Niro is in another movie and then they accidentally cut the two movies together. the whole time De Niro's character tells some pseudeo-philosophical crap that doesn't even make any sense. Well, at the end there's a bit of boom boom.
Main character mows through everyone, only to almost get his ass beat by John Malkovich?
It's a movie so bad that it's even charming, with the presence of A-list actors such as Robert De Niro and John Malkovich who are left a mystery as to how they could be convinced to participate in this story. At least Jack Huston makes an effort to add some complexity to his character in a revenge story that begins as a bland love-and-drugs story only to drift into a third act that isn't even as ironically gory as it should have been. Producer of the latest crap films starring Bruce Willis, the now director Randall Emmett has a knack for convincing great actors like Al Pacino to be part of his films.
Review by TimberWolfVIP 3BlockedParent2023-01-03T21:59:57Z
Yeah, this is just not a good movie. Not even for a dime-a-dozen action flick. Even the actors know this. Robert deNiro fumbles through his lines, John Malkovich puts in a half-hearted performance. Admittedly, the plot doesn't give them much to work with. The first half of the movie tries to have us care for the protagonist and his girl, to justify the things that come after. Problem is that the characters both are comprised of tired cliches, and the backstory that needs to be told is skipped. So we end up not caring for 2 characters for 40 minutes, after which the action finally starts. Not so much the movie, mind you, just a prolonged action sequence interspersed with characters reciting weird lines while driving a vehicle. It ends on, for an action-flick at least, small twist, after which the movies doesn't really know where to go next, so it stumbles to a very insincere heartfelt moment then fades to black. Leaving a lot of people dead, and not a lot resolved.
It's not horrible to watch (Better than Fortress, if that means anything to you, dear reader) but by God are there better things to see than this thing.