Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 102: Wind River 2017 (4 STARS)

"A fantastic movie with a story as bleak as the scenery" The Angry Lurker

Back doing these reasonably honest and short reviews again, a form of therapy and after a few requests, no rhyme or reason to whether it's the latest release or slightly older but my third love after the SWMBO and the wargaming hobby!

An experienced game ranger finds the frozen body native american woman on the Wind River reservation, the FBI send an inexperienced young agent, these will eventually team up to investigate the woman's death........

Excellent piece of cinema, great performances, a slow boil and an epic stand off scene along the way, grim, bleak but a decent ending....... 

Some trivia for you.......

 Jon Bernthal (The Punisher) lost four toenails filming the trailer scene.

It took 40 days for the shoot to complete.

Wind River Indian Reservation is the seventh-largest Indian reservation in the U.S.

The film is based on actual events.

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 100: World War Z 2013 (4 STARS).

If you're expecting a good zombie flick then this is your movie........

....but do not expect this!

Now I went to see this movie with no real idea of what I was getting other than it was different from the book in a major way in that the zombie apocalypse was been told from the very beginning rather than the point of view of survivors stories like the book!

So I took the attitude that this would be a big budget zombie apocalypse movie and hopefully it would be good, it was........

It has great set pieces, great "if this was real I would be fecked scenes", loads of zombies, a few scares and the ending which is different from the original (hence the Russian picture at the top), the original ending was considered too bleak? Here's a link if you want to know what the original ending was but should only be read if you've seen the movie. It's a movie about Pitt trying to find an answer to the disease, he travels from South Korea to Israel and finally to Wales but among many highlights is the zombie attack on Jerusalem.......outstanding as seen below!

What this movie shows is a lot of what we know, sound attracts, they're too fast and the virus (Mother Nature) and it's quest to spread it's disease and how if you're not prepared like a Doomsday Prepper or essential to the cause....you're fecked!

It has it's faults, it's a little disjointed, it's not what we expected and all over the place at times, a little implausible but then it's a zombie movie but as entertainment it's bloody good and there's talk of a sequel too!

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 99: Star Trek: Into Darkness 2013 (4 STARS).....

....and Kris is giving away a lot of free stuff over on his blog for hid birthday week!

Not much more to add to what many others have said.........impressive (may contain spoilers).

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

I enjoyed the first, no real problems, I saw this in 3D and a couple of arrows made me flinch but getting better with 3D entertainment, this is quite an excellent movie from the get go, plenty of action, great effects, a good story with great characters, some humour, could do with more action but that's just me, the main characters are growing and you can see this developing before any 5 year missions.........

We have a new Khan (bloody impressive), old style Klingons (impressive), a Tribble and a Federation that I would have loved a series on, less exploring and more blowing the crap out of things but that's just me, it really is highly entertaining even if not a fan of Star Trek and I may go see it again.....

Also this lady is in it and in this outfit......

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 97: Oblivion 2013 (4 STARS).

"It depends on how you feel about Tom Cruise?"

A gun drone engineer on what remains of Earth after the war maintains the machines whilst battling the remaining invaders and dreams of another time but the discovery of a spacecraft brings everything he thought he knew into question.

I don't mind Cruise in a movie and he's good in this but his role could easily be played by another, maybe younger actor, this movie is about the visuals and the story, the director Joseph Kosinski (he previously did Tron which I wasn't that keen on and he's set to do the Tron sequel I believe) but here it's a stunning visual treat with a quite interesting story which I won't give too much away, it needs to be seen on the big screen to really appreciate it. It does have a few flaws and it does take some of the story from other sci-fi epics but as I said it is visually amazing, great effects and a good ending but also the music score is very effective with creating the visual landscape of a ruined Earth.....and the gun drones are fecking awesome.

Well worth your time depending on your Cruise phobia!

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 96: Trance 2013 (4 STARS).

"Good movie and Rosario Dawson gets naked!"-Angry Lurker

A fine art auctioneer mixed up with a gang joins forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. As boundaries between desire, reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur the stakes rise faster than anyone could have anticipated.

Didn't expect too much from this movie but quite pleasantly pleased, there's a lot of twist and turns and you will see some of them coming but others not so easy, good action and performances, nudity and ending, it loses something towards the end but still keeps you expecting more. I don't want to go in to much more but it's a movie about amnesia, hypnotherapy, love, fingernail pulling and possibly revenge?

Well worth a watch and did I say Rosario Dawson is naked in this flick.........

.....but then so is James McEvoy!

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 93: Zero Dark Thirty 2012 (4 STARS)

"A little long but an interesting and tense movie all the same"

Maya is a CIA operative whose first experience is in the interrogation of prisoners following the Al Qaeda attacks against the U.S. on the 11th September 2001. She is a reluctant participant in extreme duress applied to the detainees, but believes that the truth may only be obtained through such tactics. For several years, she is single-minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of Al Qaeda's leader, Osama Bin Laden. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a U.S. Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. But only Maya is confident Bin Laden is where she says he is..............

There's been mixed reviews for this movie and I must admit I wasn't keen but a chance opened up to see it as a double bill with another movie I thought would be better, apart from the length of the movie this is quite entertaining and tense as you know the result of the hunt, Maya (Jessica Chastain, I only knew her from Lawless and I liked her performance in this movie even if it's a little over the top!).

The movie jumps throughout in great leaps according to breakthroughs and events that shape the story (there's even the attacks in London featured), torture is very evident at the start, bribery, betrayal, guessing, assumptions and a new administrations but Maya is the link and her transformation from inexperienced officer to vengeful and experienced officer is one to behold, there's not a lot of action until the raid on the compound at the end (very well done) and between the indecision and meetings to guess what were the percentages that he was at this compound (60%), it surprises me the mission ever got the go ahead.

All in all I believe it's worth a watch, it's better than The Hurt Locker in my opinion from this director, does it deserve an oscar?, depends on how factual or truthful this movie was, there's several cameos during the movie (James Gandolfini, Mark Strong, John Barrowman.......) but it's the ending and the mistake that led to the compound, SEAL Team 6 are referred to as Canaries because Maya had a whole different plan to deal with the compound (involved a really large bomb!)

Maya's passion rather than performance is the key to this movie if that makes sense?

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 92: Django Unchained 2012 (4 STARS)

"Another movie with Leonardo DiCaprio in it that I like and who the hell was Zoe Bell playing (girl with axe)?"- Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review.

The boy took pity on me last night and took me to the movies with very little notice (41mins), quick rush around Bluewater (Hotel Chocolat for the other half, White Dwarf, Nachos and a drink with 10 mins to spare!).

I remember watching the original Django 1966 movie and sequel with Franco Nero and directed by Sergio Corbucci (banned in the UK until 1993), over the top, very violent and dubbed, Franco Nero does appear briefly in this new movie (nice touch).

This is a bloody entertaining and quite genuinely tense movie, quite bloody, disturbing look at slavery during the time in America's past, never been keen on Foxx but he's fine, DiCaprio is manic and great in his role as a bastard of a human being, Samuel L Jackson is downright creepy as a bastard of a human being, great performances all round (Don Johnson for one....)but Waltz is excellent again as a German bounty hunter who rescues/ buys Django freedom as a black slave two years before the American civil war starts, Django has information he needs and a friendship/partnership develops and an agreement to rescue Django's slave wife who has ended up as the property of DiCaprio and this is where the movie eventually heads for it's dramatic outcome.

The movie does tend to be a little disjointed at times but the real fly in the ointment for me was the scene where Quentin gives acting another go (awful, never been a fan even with From Dusk til Dawn), the time (165 mins did fly by quite well) and the ending while over the top brings matters to a satisfactory conclusion (nearly!)

A lot of laugh out moments, actio and great performances.......

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 91: The Hobbit Part 1 (4 STARS).

"Bilbo Baggins is swept into a quest to reclaim the lost dwarf kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug"

While I was off my mate booked tickets for "The Hobbit" even though I was a little unwell ( I apologise to the other patrons of which there wasn't a lot on a Christmas Saturday afternoon for the occasional sneezing and coughing fits!)

I read The Hobbit a long time in the early days of my security career and remember fecking little except for the dragon, gold and some dwarfs, so I was quite happy to watch it with little idea of a story and after a visual slapping of my eyes and ears I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the movie, great effects, great action, great acting, Martin Freeman played Martin Freeman (never liked him until the new BBC TV series "Sherlock Holmes"), the dwarves were excellent (real good bunch of actors) and Gandalf was "Gandalf".

It's a series of stories as the group of dwarfs, Bilbo and Gandalf head for Erebor with appearances from Galadriel, Elrond, Gollum, the goblins and goblin king are some of the better bad guys and there's a bit of orc bad blood as well.

I thoroughly enjoyed it and there was no sign of the dreaded numb bum for a long movie (166 mins I believe) but it gets 4 STARS and no more and that's because I don't like to wait for the next fecking instalment, 2 more fecking parts, 2 more fecking years, Peter Jackson is extracting the urine big time. 

I need to read the book again......... 

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 81: The Dark Knight Rises 2012 (4 STARS).

.........it's all about the Bane and destroys the memory of the abomination from 1997's Batman and Robin!

Eight years on, a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham's finest and the Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him as a criminal.

Waited for the crowds to die down and went to see the last in the Nolan series, it's an enjoyable movie and the 164 minutes went by very nicely (no fidgeting in the seat), some scenes well one scene near the end was a little ridiculous but that's probably just me, not that much Batman, plenty of Bruce Wayne, great performances from everyone, great set pieces but for me Bane (Tom Hardy) steals the show with his presence and well detailed, very well detailed scheme and comes a very close second to Heath Ledgers Joker as a great villain/bad guy, his screen time and subsequent "Rise" chant that has you humming it all day and looking for it as a ringtone.....

Gotham city and Batman are the victims this time and the effects show it's destruction and his turmoil incredibly well......Catwoman in this movie is the best one I've seen in any of the series to date.

So it's enjoyable, a fun watch, good revenge which you know I like, good cameos, the ending is quite well done if a little predictable but it ends the series well, I have been a Batman fan for a long time especially the comics and Nolan has done a good job with the series and the finale.

Here's that chant........

  

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 74: Avengers Assemble 2012 (4 STARS).

Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, The Hulk, Captain America, Hawkeye etc (The Avengers)........what could go wrong.......nothing apparently!

Saw this last night and while I was not expecting much I was very pleasantly surprised as this is a romp of a movie with great action, effects and laugh out loud humour!

Don't know much about the Avengers as I never read them, I'm more your Batman, Punisher and Wolverine type of hero (no powers or very little) and little team work (I know the X-men but what can you do!).

I don't want to give away much but Loki is back and he's got an army, the Avengers exist but only as a plan and on their own essentially and the superpowers element are not good playing with others at all (funny), there's a lot of tension and anger issues before we see cohesion and harmony.

Loki tears most of the team apart with his sneaky shenanigans and plans, The Hulk (best thing in the movie as the Hulk and Dr.Banner), Iron Man (second best thing) is his usual arrogant self, Thor does the shouting and the hammer work, Captain America is at first out of sorts but gels the team together, Black Widow has her work cut out and Hawkeye really grew on me, a lot of other faces from the other movies as well make appearances.

The action is brilliant, you really can't see the CGI if that makes sense, the humour is brilliant with the Hulk causing the most with his attitude to his own team not just the enemy, the ending is good and all in all a damn good watch!

Captain America says to the Hulk at one stage to get angry and the Hulk responds by saying that's his secret.........he's always ANGRY!!!!! 

I also saw the movie in 2D deliberately!

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 71: Act of Valor 2012 (4 STARS)

Went to see this last night but was hesitant after reading a lot of bad reviews especially from Empire movie magazine (1 STAR), a movie with real Navy SEAL's, could they be right?

No they fecking weren't!!!!!!

This is a movie with real actors playing most of the parts but the Navy SEALs being acted by real Navy SEALs!, it starts off with a mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative and turns into a hunt for a terrorist leader and his suicide bomber cell, the action is very good switching from first person to third person, they used live rounds a lot in this movie and it shows....

But it's the SEAL team and it's members that you're interested in, they're not actors and that's obvious (these people have seen and done things that would make actors weep) but they're a team of professionals and friends and you see that, they banter and slag each other as only professionals and good friends can and do....

It's emotional, the SEAL teams really family are also in the movie and what I had never seen before was the two directors introducing the movie (twice) with a description of the movie development and the involvement of the SEALs (they were originally only advisor's), live ammo firing and seeing the bond of friendship among professional soldiers....

The movie is not perfect, the action is sometimes disjointed and the story hops from set piece to set piece quite quickly but it's sometimes more about what's out there in the world and glad to have people who can deal with it but don't set policy but still deal with it....

The scene on the river with the boats, mini-guns and twin .50 cals raised every hair on my body and it's been a long time since a movie did that, the movie reputedly only cost $12 million dollars but with the equipment eye candy on view they navy helped a lot and rightly so!

Never buying Empire magazine again as I don't think they got the point of a going to a movie....I just want to be entertained and took somewhere else for an hour and 50 minutes in this poxy existence I call life!

Some people won't agree but that's who I am and I am never fecking changing!

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 68: Jackass 3 (4 STARS).

Now your telling yourself 4 STARS for these lunatics who have never grown up, you're right but neither have I and especially if you liked their shenanigans before and to me this was the best of the 3 movies......

Myself and my mate Vinnie watched this down the man cave and I must admit that I came close to peeing myself with laughter and he came close to throwing up in the garden from laughter but mostly due to his aversion to other peoples faeces (I know..strange right!).

It's full of juvenile stunts involving blunt force trauma, faeces, urine, dogs, bulls, faeces, boxing gloves, hitting people in the nuts and a portable loo on a bungee cord full of faeces etc....., there are scenes where you literally go "don't do that", a lot of pausing due to Vinnie heaving in the garden and having to clean himself up and a little sadness due to Ryan Dunn who you know is now dead but still making you laugh...

I know it's not everybody's cup of tea but it brightened my day up for a while.....and a short 56 second clip of a little safe to watch Jackass madness.

R.I.P 

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 63: The Guard 2011 (4 STARS).

...it's gets 5 STARS if you're Irish because there's some things you understand better......

Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.

Brendan Gleeson plays Gerry Boyle, a garda sergeant in a small village in Connemara outside Galway who to put it mildly is a bit of a git but a funny git, this movie made me laugh quite a lot because maybe I understood it by better by being Irish but it's over the top with it's storyline but maybe nothing else, a very enjoyable movie and with a good ending.

There are good performances from Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham and Don Cheadle and from the the Irish cast but Brendan who taught at my secondary school before acting got him is brilliant and on top form.

Like Gerry says "Like the fat man said, if you have to be careful not to drink too much, it's because you're not to be trusted when you do". 

The guard in the title refers to the national police force of the Republic of Ireland who are called Garda Siochana which literally means "Guardians of the Peace".

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 54: Transformers 3 (4 STARS).

....now it's 4 STARS if you like or can tolerate the franchise which I can even if Shia LeBeouf is in it or Megan Fox got the bullet from this one.

I'll be honest with you I held very little hope for this movie but it started with the What If? reason for the space race between the USSR and America and a Cybertronian spaceship (great opening battle on Cybertron) hidden on the dark side of the moon and footage of the astronauts searching the ship for technology and this information being held back from the Autobots.I won't ruin the plot as it's plain to see as you watch.

The Decepticons have human agents and and their own plans for the Cybertron and Earth, nearly everyone is back with a few new faces like Frances McDormand (not bad), John Malkovich (no idea why as his character is mad and not needed), Patrick Dempsey( misused as a bad guy) and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as the love interest (replaced Megan Fox after the Hitler quotes got her fired, she's very pretty and not as wooden as described but one scene had me cringing but I did mention she's very pretty).

There's plenty of eye candy, explosions, humour (an autobot called Roadbuster shouting the words "ya Nancy Wanker"), fighting, military ordnance, shouting, running and explosions.

It's a romp, John Turturro returns and is better than ever, Leonard Nimoy has an iconic voice, what can I say it was worth a watch just leave your brain at the door.

I must admit I like the Decepticons...they're evil and have such cool stuff.

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 51: I Went Down 1997 (4 STARS).

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?

This is an Irish gem from 1997 that is one of the best low budget movies I've ever seen come out of Ireland, great characters, brilliant dialogue, good action, bad language and a little love and what I always want a damn good ending, go find it and have a laugh and you'll soon be saying "No guts, no black pudding".

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 50: Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011 (4 STARS).

Area managers are killing me, demanding tea and biscuits and eating into my blogging time, on annual leave next week again (just taking my birthday off and using up the annual leave as I'm not going anywhere), got a game on Sunday (Egyptians vs Hittites) and you lot have yourselves a good weekend if you can.

During experiments to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease, a genetically enhanced chimpanzee is smuggled out of the experiment and later on uses it's greater intelligence to lead other apes to freedom.

Wasn't too keen to see this to be honest but was really surprised at how much I enjoyed it, the CGI is very acceptable (Caesar and the other apes), good action, good story and a damn good ending.

Got the usual cliches with the mean monkey keeper at the sanctuary after Caesar attacks someone (this is where the story is at it's best), the greedy corporate suit whose push to use the new drug will seal his and humanity's fate. The main story is the Alzheimer's drug that fails at first but is secretly tested on a human by James Franco (tested on his dad because he has the disease) who smuggled Caesar out when he was a baby but things go wrong and he tries to stop any future reckless testing of a newer drug on apes.

I don't want to give away too much but it's definitely worth a watch and the sight of a silverback gorilla having issues with a helicopter pilot and crew (who have fired their guns at him) by entering said helicopter in flight and making his feelings very clear, there might be a sequel but an end scene makes it clear where the other movies came from and possibly how they came about.

Empire review here

20mm WW2 German Fallschirmjager Support Weapons.

Some support weapons to bolster the platoon with a couple of MG34s, 10.5cm LG40/1 Recoilless guns, some panzerfausts and panzerschreck (if the war drags on into the mid war period), kettenkrades for towing the recoilless guns.
Nearly everything is AB figures again with the kettenkrades and recoilless guns from SHQ miniatures, I think the artillery crew shells may be a bit big for the recoilless guns but I want to be able to use different artillery pieces if I have to, again painted by Ray and finished by myself (I think there may be some issue with some colours but it wasn't for the lack of research).
I will have one more post next week with more support including 8cm mortars, drop canisters and casualties.

Anyone selling a really well painted 20mm or 1:72 scale German Fallschirmjager glider or two cheaply??????:D
Pictures are the usual quality, apologies.

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 43: 13 Assassins 2010 (4 STARS)

Set in 1844, the sadistic Lord Naritsugu is rising to power and murders and rapes at will, no one can touch him because his brother is the current Shogun, a government official decides something must be done before he rises too far and a  trusted samurai is hired to ambush the Lord on his way home from Edo, 12 samurai are initially gathered with the 13th member (with supposed samurai lineage but I believe really a forest or mountain demon) found in the forests on their trek to a town which has been bought as the point to ambush the Lord and his 70 followers. The problem is he now has 200 followers and the last part of the movie is set for the ambush.

The director of this movie is Takashi Miike (I have only ever seen his Ichi the Killer as a movie and as a manga and it still makes me flinch to this day) but he has toned down his violence and bloodshed a little for this. The movie is a brooding visual marathon for most of the movie, the Lord is a sadist and you will feel too that he needs to go (some of the stuff is quite awful), there is some action in the first three quarters of the movie but it all a set up for the epic action at the end between the 13 and 200 and this is what it could have been called, some of the 13 are stone cold killing machines, while others are barely able to hold their own but sometimes numbers count for nothing in confined areas as the village has been booby trapped and specifically designed to split up the forces of Lord Naritsugu, there is bow, sword, spear, gunpowder and flaming bullocks (strange, very strange) action here.

This is an epic ending and the reason for the 4 STARS (you could basically skip to it every time), my favourite character is Kiga who they enlist  (well free him from a basket suspended from a tree) when they meet in the forest (and is responsible for the best dialogue, rock throwing and geisha/brothel  house destruction and not in the way you might think).

Will have to find the original now and I believe the movie is set on real events which led to the Meiji restoration in the 1860's.

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 40: Sword of Doom (1966) (4 STARS)

Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai without compassion or scruples. When he is scheduled for an exhibition match at his fencing school, the wife of his opponent begs Ryunosuke to throw the match, offering her own virtue in trade. Ryunosuke accepts her offer, but kills her husband in the match. Over time, Ryunosuke is pursued by the brother of the man he killed. The brother trains with the master fencer Shimada. In the meantime, however, Ryunosuke earns the enmity of the band of assassins he runs with, and it becomes a question of who shall face him in final conflict.


As I said before when I wargame a period in history I try and get some eye candy through movies of the period, some are easier to find than others and some period movies are less accurate than others.This is a great movie but a bloody grim movie about our anti-hero Ryunosuke who kills a man in a competition duel after his opponent learns that Ryunosuke slept with his wife, he kills more of his friends and escapes the town with his opponents ex-wife (who he treats terribly) joins a semi official police force that carry out murders ans assassinations for the Tokugawa Shogunate. 


The younger brother of the man killed in the duel at the beginning trains to fight our anti-hero and challenges him to a duel but in the meantime Ryunosuke confidence is shattered by a botched assassination attempd on a master swordsman Shimada Toranosuke (Toshire Mifune in an amazing scene of swordplay) and an attempt by his mistress to kill him. Anyway after all this and other things he rejoins the assassins and ends up in a haunted room and starts to see the ghosts of all his victims and starts lashing out at the rest of the assassins and we get 7 mins of amazing sword fighting that never really ends (if you get a chance to see it you will understand), there were supposed to be 2 more movies but they never happened. There is nothing to like about Ryonosuke at all and a grim, bleak movie awaits you but a magnificent movie for characters and action to watch especially if you love the Samurai period.

Angry Movie Lurker Honest Review 39: The Mechanic 2011 (4 STARS)

Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But when his mentor and close friend Harry (Donald Sutherland) is murdered, Bishop is anything but detached. His next assignment is self-imposed - he wants those responsible dead. His mission grows complicated when Harry's son Steve (Ben Foster) approaches him with the same vengeful goal and a determination to learn Bishop's trade. Bishop has always acted alone but he can't turn his back on Harry's son. A methodical hit man takes an impulsive student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born. But while in pursuit of their ultimate mark, deceptions threaten to surface and those hired to fix problems become problems themselves.


Meant to post this at the weekend but the internet was playing silly beggars and had all the good cards, this is a remake of the 1972 movie of the same title starring Charles Bronson and Jan Michael Vincent, I liked the original and the ending of the original but it's been a while since I've seen it (came out in 1972). I like Jason Statham and Ben Foster (damn good actor, 3:10 to Yuma, Pandorum...) and they do well here (that's why it got 4 stars, if you don't particularly like them then the movie is 3 STARS). The action is good, Statham is cool, collected and ruthless, Foster is the opposite, when the jobs are clean they are done well but when they go wrong or Foster is acting up they go badly wrong, the action is loud and quite good but for the purists out there the ending is different to the original which didn't bother me but may annoy some. Well worth a watch.


The original was quite unique at the time for having a 15 minute opening with no dialogue. Doesn't happen here as I don't think some people could take it now.