An average movie

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a pretty cool cast, I was quite eager to check it out. Honestly, the whole thing really had some potential. I mean, to make an action flick starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro sounded quite brilliant and the fact that it took place 30 years ago made me hope we could get a thrilling good-old fashioned thriller involving some professional killers. Unfortunately, in spite those good promises, I thought it was eventually rather disappointing. First of all, even though De Niro was displayed prominently on all the promotional material, he had a rather small part and, to make things even worse, I thought he was not really convincing which is not something that happens very often with the great thespian, even with his most tedious movies. Above all, I really had a hard time with this underwhelming plot. It is supposed to be ‘based on a true story’ but the book it was based was apparently a fake and, on top of that, the writers made up at least half of it (and I’m being generous). I don’t know, the action scenes were decent, I guess, but I really didn’t care much about the story. To conclude, I have seen worse but I still think it is a rather average action flick and I don’t think it is really worth a look.

5/10