Action, action, action

Rating: 7/10 (18 May 2015)

If ever a movie deserved to be called "action filled" this is it. I would guestimate well over 90% of it's length is action. It begins with a 45 minute (I timed it) action scene and never really lets up after that. The slow moments are like slowing from 60 to 30.
There's the one mandatory scene of exposition, reveals, and tad of emotion, but it's relatively brief. And little if any romance or even much sexual tension.
Action, action, action with nary a moment of drama.
But, good special effects, great stunt men and women (if they weren't CG), good music, good cinematography, good editing, and good use of music.
I preferred the original (I'm 66 so of course I did) precisely because it DIDN'T have the production values of this one which are fully Hollywood. It somehow made it eerie in a way I liked. More of a feeling of "the lone hero" a la Eastwood than this one.
Somewhere there's a thread complaining that this movie is "obviously" feministic propaganda.
Good grief. Let's be clear. This is a MOVIE. It has no message, no deeper meaning, and isn't the least bit feministic. (We have both hero and heroine (who has a more than passing similarity to Sigourney Weaver's Alien roles. Even the haircut.
Overall enjoyable but boring unless you're rather young. It's OK to see, just keep your expectations solely limited to action.
GregR