A Great action flick!

Rating: 9/10 (14 April 2007)

Impressed by Mark Wahlberg's role in "The Departed", in which he was nominated for an Oscar, and with Antoine Fuqua as the director, I immediately chose to see this film. I have nothing to say but high marks about this movie.
It had everything an action film needed. It had a great action hero, in which Wahlberg glimmered in. The appearance of Michael Peno as Wahlberg's sidekick was great, but the best performances were the surprising re-arrivals of Danny Glover and Ned Beatty, as the greedy and notorious villains. The other actors, both as the good guys and the bad guys were well-suited in their roles, without a hint of being hokey or wooden.
The film also had a strong, flowing story that had no flaw to it, which even held a bit of a moral. The movie also had an Eastwood style to it, along the lines of the "Spaghetti Westerns", which made the movie better than the average action flick, in which nowadays bases off of Jackie Chan and James Bond films.
The action sequences of shoot-outs and car chases were intense and cool, but a bit on the violent side (since Mr. Fuqua is unafraid to show violence from his previous films). The film dragged a little in the middle section, but there are no other complaints I found in the film.
As an "action junkie" I was deeply satisfied. Not the perfect film, but deserves a 9/10!