mid 8s - really???

Rating: 5/10 (2 December 2011)

It wasn't the worst film I've seen all year, and I can see what they were trying to do, but they just missed by a long long way, and the result is a movie that pisses me off more than it entertains.
The story is good. The implementation is shite. The slow-mo action that pervades the movie is terrible, and Ryan Gosling's performance the worst I've seen in a long time. I understand that he's not meant to show emotion, but he didn't do that. He just showed nothing. At all.
Slow? Oh my god is it slow.
Yet I feel bad putting the movie down, because it's way better than other 'action' movies - compared to Fast and the Furious it's great. It should have worked, but somehow they just missed getting it right. It SHOULD have worked. But didn't.
Get an actor that has a facial expression. And cut the slow-mo garbage.