Eva Longoria presents...a popcorn movie with Keanu Reeves!

Rating: Null/10 (19 January 2015)

The first 10 minutes of the movie are somehow misleading. You may think that you're watching a dark drama driven by revenge.
Fortunately (more than unfortunately I guess) this is not the case. It is a pop movie made to please the audience in a tongue-in-chick manner. You enter the world of mobsters and payed assassins where everyone is known, everyone goes to the same place for entertainment, follows rules and is slick and understanding! Like ...Cheers, where everybody knows your name! So this isn't a movie to be taken seriously. It's just for fun. And after numerous killings, lame martial arts moves and macho one liners... you get exactly that.
All the clichés you know well from thousands other movies are here too. The villain (so to speak because everyone is a villain) instead of killing his captured victim right away and solve all of his problems in an instant, starts blubbering philosophical BS and chooses an unconventional way to kill him (instead of let's say a bullet in the head).
So is that kind of the movie.
Is it entertaining? Well yes. I think so. I wasn't bored for the most part. I learn quickly to ignore the plot holes and just tried to enjoy it.
Overall: It's a popcorn movie, so go get your popcorn! P.S. Fun fact: Eva Longoria is one of the producers!