Full disclosure, I only made it about forty five minutes into the movie before I had to turn it off. It starts off with some poorly written dialogue, and some lazy and hackneyed attempts to make you care about the characters (the main guy has a wife! And oh my, she's pregnant!) which fall extremely flat. That put me on the fence, but I thought, hey, it's a dumb action movie. The dialogue doesn't matter THAT much, right? So I kept watching.
It goes on to tell us that a single arms dealer was able to orchestrate the biggest terrorist attack the world has ever seen - killing several world leaders from the world's most powerful countries, infiltrating pretty much all of London's emergency services, and hacking London's entire electrical grid from a laptop in some warehouse in the middle east - all planned and executed in TWO years - and expects us to just accept it.
Well, I'm sorry, but suspension of disbelief only goes so far. I can believe and magic and space lasers as easily as the next guy, but it HAS to be reasonable within the world it's set in. Suspension of disbelief doesn't mean that you can just write whatever brainless, insane plot you want to without considering realism at all. You still have to ground the plot in SOME reality if you want it to be taken seriously. And as a film that takes place in our reality, I can tell you it was not grounded in the slightest.
I finally turned it off when a motorcycle helmet was able to smash through bullet proof glass that countless bullets could not. I mean, come on. At least put SOME thought into it.
It goes on to tell us that a single arms dealer was able to orchestrate the biggest terrorist attack the world has ever seen - killing several world leaders from the world's most powerful countries, infiltrating pretty much all of London's emergency services, and hacking London's entire electrical grid from a laptop in some warehouse in the middle east - all planned and executed in TWO years - and expects us to just accept it.
Well, I'm sorry, but suspension of disbelief only goes so far. I can believe and magic and space lasers as easily as the next guy, but it HAS to be reasonable within the world it's set in. Suspension of disbelief doesn't mean that you can just write whatever brainless, insane plot you want to without considering realism at all. You still have to ground the plot in SOME reality if you want it to be taken seriously. And as a film that takes place in our reality, I can tell you it was not grounded in the slightest.
I finally turned it off when a motorcycle helmet was able to smash through bullet proof glass that countless bullets could not. I mean, come on. At least put SOME thought into it.