Seriously. Whoever gave this film 7 to 10 stars is either lying or has no taste in film altogether. Even as a light-hearted romp with an adrenaline junkie, it still blew. I was so confused as to whether or not to care about anyone in that damn film for the entire film.
The plot anyone can check out on IMDb, but there's no back story for the guy past his days working with a crime syndicate. Whatever girl in the movie (Amy Smart's character) fell for him as being some mean-looking video game programmer is a total bimbo and deserves this crazed maniac of a man. Jason Statham, who's previous roles in The Transporter could've easily been played in this one, is basically a guy's excuse to check out some dude who has it all (nice furniture and underground goings-on), and it forced to figure out how to live however long he can with this Oriental serum in his bloodstream. And, for action-film fans' sake, he has to keep his adrenaline up like an extra in a Mountain Dew commercial on crack throughout the whole 88 minutes of film-time.
When did filmmakers decide that the machines should do all the work for them? I counted too many filters being used all the time, too many cheap transitional effects from shot to shot, too many boring shots of JS looking "out of it," and heard way too many corny sound effects (a goat when JS laughs around the end?) to forgive the filmmakers for this ridiculousness. If you're going to wear the action film jacket on the DVD, don't sell me a comedy. But it was the directors' first film, which means they shouldn't be allowed to make any more after this one. Someone should take their computers right out of their studios because they rely on them to make the shot better than their eyes do. Anyone seen Biker Boys? They were visual effects guys on that bomb, too.
The music was just annoying, like something off a bad modern rock station, even though it drove the film as if we are watching a long music video. The cinematography relied on Statham all the time; in fact, I got so sick of seeing him in almost every shot. Just like in Transporter when they had him sliding around in oil, now they got his ass sticking out of a hospital gown and banging a chick in public...I question the image Statham is allowing himself to become.
All in all, never see the film. It's a giant commercial for manly actions with a poorly thought-out gangster plot line for no reason. You will wish that the movie was made in the 80's so that rental stores will stop shelving this release for the public. What happened to cinema?
The plot anyone can check out on IMDb, but there's no back story for the guy past his days working with a crime syndicate. Whatever girl in the movie (Amy Smart's character) fell for him as being some mean-looking video game programmer is a total bimbo and deserves this crazed maniac of a man. Jason Statham, who's previous roles in The Transporter could've easily been played in this one, is basically a guy's excuse to check out some dude who has it all (nice furniture and underground goings-on), and it forced to figure out how to live however long he can with this Oriental serum in his bloodstream. And, for action-film fans' sake, he has to keep his adrenaline up like an extra in a Mountain Dew commercial on crack throughout the whole 88 minutes of film-time.
When did filmmakers decide that the machines should do all the work for them? I counted too many filters being used all the time, too many cheap transitional effects from shot to shot, too many boring shots of JS looking "out of it," and heard way too many corny sound effects (a goat when JS laughs around the end?) to forgive the filmmakers for this ridiculousness. If you're going to wear the action film jacket on the DVD, don't sell me a comedy. But it was the directors' first film, which means they shouldn't be allowed to make any more after this one. Someone should take their computers right out of their studios because they rely on them to make the shot better than their eyes do. Anyone seen Biker Boys? They were visual effects guys on that bomb, too.
The music was just annoying, like something off a bad modern rock station, even though it drove the film as if we are watching a long music video. The cinematography relied on Statham all the time; in fact, I got so sick of seeing him in almost every shot. Just like in Transporter when they had him sliding around in oil, now they got his ass sticking out of a hospital gown and banging a chick in public...I question the image Statham is allowing himself to become.
All in all, never see the film. It's a giant commercial for manly actions with a poorly thought-out gangster plot line for no reason. You will wish that the movie was made in the 80's so that rental stores will stop shelving this release for the public. What happened to cinema?