Oh, so good and oh, so bad

Rating: 5/10 (23 July 2008)

Definitely a great beer and pizza movie with some lazy friends on a Friday night, but a philosophical masterpiece about work, ennui, and nihilism, I think not.
Look, the point is action is action and here the action is just fine. Unlike Crank, or Shoot'em up however it can't find a post modern humor to it, it just plays the action too straight and too improbable, and the word that spring to mind is bathos.
However, philosophy is great only if really tight and not pop dollops of pseudo meaning - there is not enough explanation, it's all very mysterious, but simply not mystic enough.
I would have liked less bullets and knives and more creativity in the action scenes - and finally at the end of the day the film can't cram in all we need to know in the time continuum provided.
Good, if violent, entertainment, but a good film... uh huh.....no way.