Visuals isn't enough in this case.

Rating: 4/10 (21 December 2009)

My expectations where high when I went to see this film. The pioneer of the 90' action genre where back with another film. Feeling like a child running down the stairs to see what Santa brought this year, I had my popcorn and cola and I where set to go. About twenty min. in the film I found myself hardly entertained and with a heavy feeling in my stomach I came to the conclusion that visuals weren't enough to keep my mind from noticing the bad character development, the mediocre acting and the cliché story line and script. Even when the base from the action scenes where pounding through my body I felt only the slight touch of thrill when a new concept where introduced, and gone within seconds. The action scenes where I my opinion dragged far longer than the concept allowed.
I'm not gonna give any examples of this because it would contain a spoiler value...
This film sends out a frightening message to the film industry, that if you have the money to make a good looking movie you don't need anything else for the majority of the population to roar in joy. This film didn't even come close to challenge my intellect, and I'm and 18 year old boy straight out of school. Now a movie doesn't need to be intellectual challenging if the action scenes are original and entertaining, for example "300", or the scenes are touching or well written, for example "Antichrist", but this film had either...
This movie represents the class' pop boy.