Imagine all your favorite foods - a steak, lobster, crab legs, shrimp, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, etc. Now, imagine them all cooked together into a mushy mess where they were indistinguishable from each other. That is this movie.
It seems like someone saw Hardcore Henry and thought, well, I liked that, but I also liked all of the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movies, and Escape From New York, and Mad Max: Fury Road, and Train to Busan, and a whole bunch of other movies, many of them maybe by Michael Bay. They then decided to throw them all into one movie with the resulting mushy mess.
Also imagine that they blew a large part of their budget on getting one (yes one) B+ US actor and paying for various set locations while skimping on CGI, choreography, script, story, cinematography, and other things that go into making a movie. Don't get me wrong though, not all of these things were complete flaming piles of dog poo - some things actually weren't bad, but when you see those things you won't remember them.
What you will remember are the blurry action sequences that made no sense, the dialogue that seemed to be perfectly fine English from one actor and butchered English from another - as if it were written by two (five) different people, a disjointed story that just kept going when it was obvious it should have stopped a long time ago, and a bunch of other issues that just made it feel like if it weren't for the insane action you would probably have just stopped watching already.
Really, the insanity of it all was the only reason to watch it. Every action piece in this movie harkens back to an older movie you may have seen based on your age - seriously, not one thing in this was original in any way and yes, some of the references were a bit old, so for you younger people I get that you may not believe it. Still, with all of that said four stars isn't TOO bad.
It seems like someone saw Hardcore Henry and thought, well, I liked that, but I also liked all of the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movies, and Escape From New York, and Mad Max: Fury Road, and Train to Busan, and a whole bunch of other movies, many of them maybe by Michael Bay. They then decided to throw them all into one movie with the resulting mushy mess.
Also imagine that they blew a large part of their budget on getting one (yes one) B+ US actor and paying for various set locations while skimping on CGI, choreography, script, story, cinematography, and other things that go into making a movie. Don't get me wrong though, not all of these things were complete flaming piles of dog poo - some things actually weren't bad, but when you see those things you won't remember them.
What you will remember are the blurry action sequences that made no sense, the dialogue that seemed to be perfectly fine English from one actor and butchered English from another - as if it were written by two (five) different people, a disjointed story that just kept going when it was obvious it should have stopped a long time ago, and a bunch of other issues that just made it feel like if it weren't for the insane action you would probably have just stopped watching already.
Really, the insanity of it all was the only reason to watch it. Every action piece in this movie harkens back to an older movie you may have seen based on your age - seriously, not one thing in this was original in any way and yes, some of the references were a bit old, so for you younger people I get that you may not believe it. Still, with all of that said four stars isn't TOO bad.