An average movie

Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since I have watched most of the movies starring Sylvester Stallone, I thought I might as well check this one as well. Basically, it is one of those typical action flicks that Sylvester Stallone did in the 90's and 80’s and, at the end of the day, you either love them or you don’t. To be honest, I’m afraid I belong to the second group... I mean, sure, it sounded nice to have a semi-gritty prison flick (still, it was far from the realistic approach provided by ‘Un Prophète’) with Stallone but, in my opinion, the action scenes were rather average, Stallone displayed once again that acting is not really his strongest attribute and even Donald Sutherland couldn't save this from mediocrity. Indeed, I always had a weak spot for Donald Sutherland but, here, he provided one of his typical bad guy performances he gave during the 90’s and you can almost smell the paycheck from here. To conclude, I have seen worse, even with Sylvester Stallone (‘Over the top’ for example was much worse and pretty terrible) but I still believe that it is a very average flick and you should watch this only if you are a die hard fan of Sylvester Stallone.

5/10