This movie has an all-star cast. The trailer for this movie was misleading. On our way out of the movie theatre, presumably a married couple asked us what we saw and if we liked it. We all watched the same movie. 1 in 4 of us liked the movie, I being the one person who liked the movie. It needed more plot or more story. It was like the Bourne series minus the memory loss and government assassin but completely missing the mark. It should have been longer and instead of relaying the story of what happened in Barcelona and Dublin to some guy in a car, they could have shown it. There was a lot of non-talking in this movie and thankfully too. Gina Carano is not an actress and never will be. It was the kind of movie where someone wanted a woman with insane fighting skills to kick men’s asses and win. It has some edgy shots, but the running scene in Barcelona, with the various street angles, was a bit much. It was neat, but after a few of those shots it was exhausting and the editor should have cut the shots and used normal shots. After that scene, the interesting shots disappear. This movie needed more and it explains the all around low ratings people are giving it. After the gentleman said he would never recommend this movie, I think I should not recommend it either. It could have been an Angelina Jolie movie, but with more plot, car chases and weapon firing besides the mixed martial arts fighting which dominated all the action scenes. The script was tailored specifically for hand to hand combat and nothing else. We all have our impressions of assassins and I think we all have the same idea that they know how to drive a car, they know mixed martial arts, they know how to wield a gun and a long range rifle and are rather stoic in personality. Either way I think it’s one of those not so good movies that I watch more than once. As opposed to movies I thought were fantastic and have only seen once.
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