An average movie

To be honest, I didn’t really have some huge expectations regarding this movie but since I have a weak spot for Mark Wahlberg’s and Peter Berg’s work, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, it wasn’t really good, I’m afraid. At least, it was slightly better than ‘Spenser Confidential’, the last collaboration of Wahlberg with Peter Berg, but only slightly though. I mean, most of the action scenes were not bad, especially the fighting scenes involving the always awesome Iko Uwais, the badass actor from ‘The Raid’, but that was pretty much the only thing working with this flick. The first thing that really annoyed me was the fact that they tried to make Wahlberg play an incredibly smart man which was rather pathetic. There was also some rather misguided attempt at being humoristic by making some jokes about the fact that the guy was probably bipolar. At least, Wahlberg was lucky enough that Lauren Cohan was also barely convincing. In fact, while it was really ridiculous to try once again to turn Wahlberg into the smartest man in the room, it could have been interesting to have her playing a lethal soldier but, unfortunately, there was not one second I believed in this character. To make things worse, the damned thing was rather pretentious with some fancy editing and some useless debriefing scenes with Wahlberg’s character. I know, I probably make it sound as if the damned thing was awful but, in fact, the concept had some potential, it’s just that the makers made quite a few stupid mistakes. Anyway, to conclude, I was probably too generous with my rating here but it is always neat to see Iko Uwais kicking some major ass but, if you don’t really like the genre, you should probably avoid this flick.