An invincible hero, prolonged fights, shootouts and car chases.

Rating: 6/10 (28 November 2012)

I didn't hate this movie, but I didn't really enjoy it either. The movie consists almost wholly of the boring devices you see in many modern movies nowadays: an invincible hero, prolonged fights, shootouts and car chases.
It also had a few torture scenes (without too much gore). I thought the movie was too violent, but I'm thinking that about a lot of movies lately.
OK, this movie included a cool chicken run on a train. And it had a chase on the very same Istanbul rooftops they showed in Skyfall and about a dozen other movies. Every filmmaker loves that location.
If you love Istanbul, you'll enjoy the backdrops in this movie. Istanbul itself is a fabulous city. However, this movie made it look like the whole city revolves around the Grand Bazaar and Hagia Sofia. And are there really so many women wearing burqas in Istanbul?? The exposition and character development at the start went on for too long -- and it didn't really work. All three of them annoyed me (although for different reasons).
I thought the movie portrayed the Albanians rather unsympathetically. Just black and white, really. Americans good; Muslim Albanians bad.