Quintessential big budget tacky rubbish

Rating: 5/10 (2 May 2015)

This movie was, for lack of a better word, trash. I do not recommend it, unless you are 14 year old. The casting was mediocre, the performances were contrived and overacted, the characters were unappealing to anyone over 14 and the story line probably took 10 minutes to think up. There is precious little to praise in this movie save for the action, I enjoyed the brutal fights and gore but I spent most of the movie hoping someone would rip Samuel L Jackson's tongue out so I didn't have to endure yet another unbearable performance by him, this time complemented with a repulsive lisp. I'm not sure how Jackson is still being cast, he hasn't put in a true performance in over 20 years and his boorish personality is hardly appealing, especially after we've seen him be the same person in every single movie.. Back to the movie. The scripting and dialog was awful, the costumes were gaudy and the entire movie just came of as tacky and a hollow attempt at seeming polished.