Jmac:
I sort of half hearted watched this one while doing other things, but it was nothing to write home about anyway. I'm not sure what I expected out of Terrance Howard and Colin Farrell trying to pull of a slight Hungarian accent, which the movie tries to explain by saying that that when he got to America he tried to lose it as quickly as possible.
Anyway this was a straightforward story of revenge and shoot’em up movie. Farrell’s family was killed by Howard’s character, so he is out for revenge, but along the way finds a woman he likes, or rather she finds him because she knows he’s a hitman. Its actually a slow movie, with very little character development outside the main three characters. Of course in the end the bad guys die and he gets the girl, and somehow on their subway ride home, both totally soaked and bleeding, no one says anything to them..... and this is in New York after 9/11 so Im pretty sure someone would have said something.
If you like action, this movie really is not for you except the last twenty minutes, sure there are other small action sequences but they are over far too quickly and usually end with a copout reason.
I give it 2.4 mentions of burning everything someone cares about out of 5.
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