An average movie

From the moment this movie was released, it became a massive cult classic and it was directly hailed as the best action movie from at least the last 10 years. Something similar happened a while back with ‘Ong-back’ , a movie I really enjoyed, so I became really eager to check this flick as well. On the other hand, Roger Ebert really didn’t like this movie at all so I was a little bit skeptical but I still wanted to see if it was any good. First of all, I was positively surprised by the fact  that the whole thing didn’t start with an endless and boring introduction. Indeed, within the first 10 minutes, the mayhem started and it never really stopped but, unfortunately, it turned out to be also its downfall, I'm afraid. Indeed, even though all the action scenes were perfectly shot and choreographed, there was no room to invest myself in the (pedestrian) plot and/or the (poorly developed) characters. Eventually, to be honest, it became rather monotonous after a while but, I have to admit it, the whole thing was very well made and, from a technical point of view, it was indeed quite impressive but I can’t say I really enjoyed the damned thing. Anyway, to conclude, I don’t think it is really a masterpiece but it still definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.