WTF?  C'mon, man...

I really wanted to see this in the theater in March, as I thought it looked great in the trailers I saw over and over.  As the DVD release date neared, I got excited again and really looked forward to it.

Well, I saw it last night, after the Blu Ray sat 5 days since Netflix shipped it to me last week, and man oh man, was this ever a piece of steaming shite.

We've got a $30 Million budgeted film with Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapce, directed by Niels Arden Oplev (of Girl with the Dragon Tatoo fame in his first English language film).  What could go wrong?  How about everything right down to the terrible concept of the script, written by J. H. Wyman, who has given us The Mexican and Fringe.

IMO, this is just a stupid idea from the very beginning, as everything is so dark, so ugly, and so something I do not want to watch - and why would anyone?  Farrell is a lowlife killer, Rapace is a scarred shell of a woman who wants revenge and has no porblems with killing, and everyone else are killers, hoodlums, drug dealers, etc.

This was a true box office bomb, only collecting $11 Million in the states and $18 Million WW.  I can easily see why.  I could easily see why in teh first 5 minutes of the film.  So plodding and slow.  Even the big firefight scene early on just comes off so...so been there, seen that and seen it much better in other films.

The fact that this "revenge thriller" turns into some sort of awkward and dull love story is again, just the wrong way to go.  So poorly plotted and realized.

On top of all the obvious negatives, to me, everything about this was so fucking cliche and downright unbeleivable.  I eman, c'mon - Farrell' character is supposedly some Hungarian engineer that came to America with his wife and child, and somehow morphs into this super killing machine, able to take baddies out with all sorts of weaponry.  Just laughable, really.

I'm just very upset with this flick as it looked so promising.  The Director was furious with the advertising campaign and blamed it for the movie's failure, but the reality is that the concept doomed this from the moment someone read the script and said, "Let's make a $30 Million dark action revenge thriller out of this".

This is a failure on every level for me and it's the kind that can easily put you to sleep, with little to no redeeming value.

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Since I worked on the film (I rep the little girl who played Farrell's daughter in the movie and got her the role) I had to see it in theaters. Wasn't particularly terrible, but it wasn't any good either.

You pretty much summed it up Jeff. Nothing special. I thought the trailer looked slick as s hit. Then again, I thought the same thing about Man of Steel.

Very predictable. Surprisingly slow. Average action scenes.

Unless you feel like throwing Philly some money, skip it. In fact, buy some tasteycakes instead.