A good movie

It has been a while since I saw this flick and I thought it was time for a re-watch this time with Nick, my step-son. The first thing that really stroke me was the opening scene. Indeed, you have this chick completely drugged out, half naked, jumping from a building and compared to the action movies we see nowadays where blood and nudity is toned down to get a wider rating, I thought it was rather bleak. It was actually quite common back in those days but it was quite obvious that this genre has really evolved since then. My wife was not so pleased and gave me one of those looks ‘how dare you show this depraved garbage to my precious little son?!?’ but, well, the rest of the movie was actually rather harmless. Anyway, I thought it was definitely an entertaining action flick, even though the plot was nothing really original in my opinion. What made this movie better than the rest was the really solid directing by Richard Donner who provided some pretty cool action scenes and the great chemistry between Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Personally, I never believed in the fact that Gibson was mad or depressed and even though the story was really fun and entertaining, it still is and remains a rather shallow story and I never thought there were really something urgent at stake like in ‘Die Hard’ for example. Still, it is absolutely one of the better action movies ever made, it is completely entertaining from the beginning until the end and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10