A film with no redeeming features

Rating: 1/10 (31 January 2010)

I admit I knew little about this film before we went to see it, we were looking for somewhere to escape the 40 degree heat (celsius, 104 fahrenheit). I accept that I am most definitely not the target audience which is probably 18 year old boys but I still have to have a few words to say about this utter garbage.
The opening scene was extremely violent and frankly nauseating to watch. We nearly walked out then. However we crossed our fingers and stayed. It was obvious this was going to be a revenge movie but the common man trying to take on either the bad guys or the system might have been worth watching. But no. Gerard Butler turns out not to be you or me, no he's superman performing superhuman feats of total unbelievability accompanied by the regulation massive explosions etc.
Yes it has its little twist in the plot but that doesn't compensate for the complete moral vacuum that exists for every character and the story itself. There are no good guys here. No one you can cheer for because none of them have the slightest concept of how perverted their belief system is. This carries on through right to the end which is appalling for its complete surrender to violence as the ultimate solution. There is no intelligence at work here, it's entirely visceral.
In fact if you are into nihilism then this is the movie for you.