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                                                     1 star out of 4



Agent- Pitching movie to Jason Statham. So here’s the movie. I think you are going to be really excited. You play a reclusive man who used to be a killer of epic proportions. Through a series of circumstances you get pulled back into your former life.

Jason- Ummm, that sounds like my last 10 movies, man.

Agent- You don’t understand, this time it’s different.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m no hater. In his better movies, you root for him as he exacts revenge on cartoonishly evil people (I forgot to mention, there are always cartoonishly evil people in Jason Statham movies).

But this one is pretty weak, even though it follows the recipe. His lines are just a little off. The action scenes are just a little too corny.

Full disclosure, this is not really a genre of movies I enjoy. But I just reviewed Wuthering Heights, (also not my genre), and so I figured I would review something with a little more testosterone.

But this one kind of just phones in the bare minimum. There is a larger theme about the Orwellian surveillance state we are moving toward. Like The Beekeeper, Statham is the noble savage singlehandedly dismantling the deep state one man at a time. It worked a lot better in that movie.

Some action movies like this have a, “It’s so bad it’s good” quality. Roadhouse comes to mind off the top of my head. At no point while watching one of these do you think you are watching a good movie.

But they are fun anyway.

This one doesn’t even get there.

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