I wish I could post like I had on the Board, but I am entitled to 1000 words so here is a summary: Action over Substance -- All action, little character development, I didn't care whether any of the characters lived or died, they had no background.
Stashing the Guns -- An obvious unlocked wall panel with roughly thirty weapons sitting in there? Come on! We were led to believe Walker had an expertise for getting rid of weapons and he just stacks them in his basement, he would've been discovered by then as the murders and tainted weapons rose.
What are the odds that the kid who took the gun picked the most important one out of a stack of roughly thirty firearms. Not believable.
Horrible stereotypes and ill-researched lingo -- The pimp, hookers, Mexicans, thugs, thieves, weirdos all were obvious clichés appearing as if they had been fabricated by a man with the intelligence and street knowledge of an 8th grader.
John Wayne -- An attempt to create a memorable character that failed before it began; the audience never knew enough of why this guy loved The Duke so damn much.
Why was the gun so damn precious -- it was passed like a nugget of gold, I suppose one has to have firearm know-how in order to understand why EVERY hood in town wanted the gun.
Child Pornographers? -- An attempt to shock the audience with a moment of pure disgust -- like Marcellus Wallace's rape scene in Pulp Fiction.
Russians? Why not add them into the mix, we have no idea where they came from but whatever, they've been thrown into every other crime drama film to gum up the works, why not here.
End scene, the Mexican Standoff -- not enough information about the Mob or the Russians to care whether or not they lived or died or who won the battle.
I can't believe Walker came out of that mess of excessive violence with a few abrasions and nothing more.
Horrible pimp with a horrible Scarface reference -- felt like a Junior High School kid's idea to throw that in.
No research done in street lingo, other directors have portrayed gangsters and thugs properly, I guess this writer was l-a-z-y.
Its tough to buy that EVERYONE in a ten mile radius is evil -- Walker and the kid never ran into anyone remotely normal.
Too many evils in the course of a night -- child porn, gambling, murder, prostitution, grotesque torture sequences, crooked cops, Russians, not to mention everyone seems ready to commit homicide and is waiting for the opportunity.
The cops didn't play a crucial enough role and even when it seemed as if they added SOMETHING to the plot, the primary cop involved was blown up, quite randomly.
Bad monologues -- John Wayne and the one by Paul Walker, the emotional one, or lack thereof. Just faulty writing ability.
This director needs to research better, he needs to not try so hard to shock the audience at obvious stages in the film and needs help with dialogue. Every character can't be Tarantino-style cool and memorable.
It was trash, all in all, its made for the ignorant who can excuse lack of realism, lack of a decent screenplay, underdeveloped characters, and a plot that it supposed to be blindly accepted as believable with no buildup or structure.
Stashing the Guns -- An obvious unlocked wall panel with roughly thirty weapons sitting in there? Come on! We were led to believe Walker had an expertise for getting rid of weapons and he just stacks them in his basement, he would've been discovered by then as the murders and tainted weapons rose.
What are the odds that the kid who took the gun picked the most important one out of a stack of roughly thirty firearms. Not believable.
Horrible stereotypes and ill-researched lingo -- The pimp, hookers, Mexicans, thugs, thieves, weirdos all were obvious clichés appearing as if they had been fabricated by a man with the intelligence and street knowledge of an 8th grader.
John Wayne -- An attempt to create a memorable character that failed before it began; the audience never knew enough of why this guy loved The Duke so damn much.
Why was the gun so damn precious -- it was passed like a nugget of gold, I suppose one has to have firearm know-how in order to understand why EVERY hood in town wanted the gun.
Child Pornographers? -- An attempt to shock the audience with a moment of pure disgust -- like Marcellus Wallace's rape scene in Pulp Fiction.
Russians? Why not add them into the mix, we have no idea where they came from but whatever, they've been thrown into every other crime drama film to gum up the works, why not here.
End scene, the Mexican Standoff -- not enough information about the Mob or the Russians to care whether or not they lived or died or who won the battle.
I can't believe Walker came out of that mess of excessive violence with a few abrasions and nothing more.
Horrible pimp with a horrible Scarface reference -- felt like a Junior High School kid's idea to throw that in.
No research done in street lingo, other directors have portrayed gangsters and thugs properly, I guess this writer was l-a-z-y.
Its tough to buy that EVERYONE in a ten mile radius is evil -- Walker and the kid never ran into anyone remotely normal.
Too many evils in the course of a night -- child porn, gambling, murder, prostitution, grotesque torture sequences, crooked cops, Russians, not to mention everyone seems ready to commit homicide and is waiting for the opportunity.
The cops didn't play a crucial enough role and even when it seemed as if they added SOMETHING to the plot, the primary cop involved was blown up, quite randomly.
Bad monologues -- John Wayne and the one by Paul Walker, the emotional one, or lack thereof. Just faulty writing ability.
This director needs to research better, he needs to not try so hard to shock the audience at obvious stages in the film and needs help with dialogue. Every character can't be Tarantino-style cool and memorable.
It was trash, all in all, its made for the ignorant who can excuse lack of realism, lack of a decent screenplay, underdeveloped characters, and a plot that it supposed to be blindly accepted as believable with no buildup or structure.