Superficial Action Film Derivative

Rating: 4/10 (9 May 2016)

I got a couple recommendations to see this movie from friends and heard online that it was great. Huge disappointment I am legitimately annoyed that I watched that, at times it was so cringe worthy, I wanted to look away.
The plot is very shallow. There is little character development and the action movie clichés are off the radar. Its like a pre-teen action movie enthusiast wrote this and no one critiqued it. My favorite part was John Leguizamo's scene, but its all downhill from there.
I thought maybe Keanu wrote and directed this himself since he is so adept at shooting guns in real life, and maybe he wanted to show it off. Also since you would have to be so full of yourself to even do this movie. But the firefights were boring and as you can imagine, gun handling prowess is not exactly entertaining.
The thing is, straight from the beginning you can tell its bad, but you say, well maybe it will get better. There is nothing original about the badassness being displayed, it is painfully contrived. I am gonna have to draw up an action movie script myself to see if maybe being original is hard at this point just to try to justify the staleness of this movie.
The whole boogeyman thing was corny, and Keanu did not do anything we haven't already seen a million times before. And how about when he was taking a shower and all you see is the Pillsbury dough-boy and you expect me to believe he is the deadliest killer alive? I would have liked to have seen a more cerebral assassin style of rampage mode movie. Do not recommend, I would recommend Wanted over this its got a better stylized action.