straight forward or poor

Rating: 3/10 (25 October 2014)

I haven't seen no preview to it and went to see the movie based on the good reviews here on IMDb. - After I saw it last night, I've got to say that they weren't describing the movie at all honest. - That's why I decided to put out my view of the movie on here.
It all starts and already falls with the poor script: some described it as a straight forward story. I just remained asking "where is the d**n story?"
What you get presented with in this movie is a - up until the end still - flat character, who is taking revenge for the loss of his dog shortly after the death of his wife, who also gifted him the dog. So this John is described as a professional with amazing focus and at the same time with great inner rage, why he ends up going for his revenge no matter the consequences. But the movie doesn't succeed in delivering this believable character combining both these extremes. He sometimes is forgiving and other times scrupulous. It doesn't add up... It rather gave me the impression, that he is "nice" to people, so they can come again later and make the movie longer. But so is it on the other side with the "bad" guys, too. Why are they sometimes "nice"? I couldn't understand.
If you though look from the prospective of the storytelling, it makes sense. It delivers more movie-time! There are a couple of scenes, where it became very obvious, that whatever was going on was for the single reason of prolonging the (rather non-existent) story.
What remains most prominent of all this watching time is seeing many head-shots of faces, you can't really make out enough to have some kind of emotional response, other than the excitement of the fighting itself.
I liked the music though. It's fitting to the excitement of this one man offense.
I hope with this you can better decide for yourself, if it's worth your time and money.