Grisly patchwork of tired themes

Rating: 3/10 (8 November 2014)

This film is not for the faint of heart, due to an unbelievable amount of ultra-violence. For example, Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange" seems like a Disney movie by comparison. Sometimes creativity can be a bad thing, when it documents, in graphic detail, all sorts of choking, pummeling, corkscrew-throat-impaling, shooting, nail-gun killing and the like. Underlying all this creative carnage and dismemberment are many of the tired old themes we have seen before, such as the "peaceful" and contemplative man whipped up into an orgy of blood-letting (Denzel Washington's character), the hooker with a heart of gold (Chloe Grace Moretz's character) and the psychotic Russian mobster (Marton Csokas's character). This is not, I repeat NOT, a good date movie. Consider yourself warned.