Entertaining, fast-food movie.

Rating: 5/10 (12 July 2011)

This movie doesn't need a extensive review. It's a typical payback film, like those that Charles Bronson starred in the 80's. The main difference is the bigger budget and a more sophisticating method plot. And this one is that makes this film better than the old ones, and, at the same time, makes it worse.
while Bronson's films were straight to action, extremely violent, without any kind of plot, this one tries to tell us the same history in a more original way. There are some powerful and imaginative scenes, and the film is able to keep our attention during two hours, but it fails in some important things.
The movie tries to explain the complexity of Butler's character actions and there the plot fails, the things are not clear even for this kind of movie. But the worst thing is the ending. An awful, disappointing and fascist ending (the entire movie is fascist, but the ending is the summum).
Butler is OK, in his line, and Jamie Foxx is plane. Easily forgettable acting in overall.
In conclusion, another entertaining action-movie which fails when it tries to be bigger than it can be.