What is this crap

Rating: 3/10 (28 December 2010)

I have never been so disappointed in a movie. I do not even know why I had any expectations of this being good, but I figured there would be some decent fight scenes. I was wrong.
First of all the setup was terrible, but that is nothing to complain about in a movie like this. Something to complain about is that the movie felt like it was just a series of set pieces sewn together with some incomprehensible dialog. The movie made sure it gave each actor something ridiculous to do, with zero character development. For the final action sequences I could barely tell how was the good guy and who I was supposed to be cheering for. Not only because of the stupid quick cuts but also because they all looked like the same big muscled brawlers. I guess the fact that the bad guys had face paint helped a little bit, but not really.
I mentioned that the dialog was incomprehensibly, but even when I could understand what they were saying I could not understand why any human being would say those words in those order. The attempt at one liners were pathetic and when you could understand them they were bad enough that I almost wanted to groan.
I guess one good thing was Statham threw knives and that was kind of cool. The action scenes were not the worse I have seen, but the final one, which was supposed to be the crowning moment of the film was so choppy I had no idea where anyone was or why people were dying.
I am sorry, but Rourke what were you thinking. The rest of the cast I understand what is going on, but Rourke. You have a legitimate movie career ahead of you. Why waste time on this? I could see you trying with some of the dialog, but the lines were just so bad.
I do not recommend this movie to anyone except those who want to watch things blow up and do not care about anything else at all.