Overrated

Rating: 4/10 (26 October 2014)

Visually appealing yet remarkably devoid of content and vitality. But that's what a Hollywood "action potboiler" is supposed to be all about, isn't it? I'm not sure what I was expecting, and yes, I'll have to reflect on that, but ridiculously slicing-and-dicing and hole punching and barbwire garroting, etc., the generic Russian prison tattooed bad guys in the local hardware warehouse left me cold and annoyed I'd shelled out the price of a ticket. I wonder how it would have played if he'd worked at Dunkin' Donuts? Admittedly, the bad guy was venal and repulsive, just another "thug doing his job" (trained on the streets of Grozny?) when no one else on the oligarch's staff can get the job done - and he got his just desserts. Yay! And the reformed teenager finding him on the street at the end to thank him? You're kidding, right?