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Are people in the UK oblivious to anything but soccer...sorry, football? It seems you can have raging shootouts involving military helicopters and motorcycles driving through the stadium and jumping from rooftops and no watching the game notices. I mean, I get the whole suspend your disbelief thing, but at least try to make it look like there was reason for the myopic behavior other than a game on the field.

They also don't notice a very bloodied large man walking around looking like he was in a car accident, yet draws no attention by even the security...until he runs on the field that is. Don't mess with the game buddy! Typical hooligan I guess. Based on this, I'm pretty sure much of the UK will not know when WWIII starts because you know...football!

Add to that the typical 100 or so moments where normal people in similar situation would be easily killed by getting an iron pipe smashed off their head several times, or punched and kicked in the face repeatedly, aaaaand the status quo 85 lb angry girl who can lay waste to a 280 lb ex-soldier who just moments before did pretty well for himself taking care of a 350 muscled freak of nature, and you have the modern action fantasy in it's finest form, with not even a hint of believability because, why bother? This genre is about as plot-centric as low grade porn.

It's just too much when you ad it all up to give it more than 4 stars as the plot is too thin to carry it regardless of the copious amounts of drama-tinted destruction tacked on that humans obviously thirst for.

Once upon a time, cinema was awash with DIE HARD rip-offs, but the genre has died out recently. FINAL SCORE, a British thriller set almost entirely in a football stadium, attempts to hark back to the glory days of yesteryear, offering a riff on the Van Damme flick SUDDEN DEATH (itself a blatant DIE HARD copy) while copying various bits and pieces - and even dialogue - from the Bruce Willis classic. The hulking Dave Bautista plays the uncle of a teenage girl who gets drawn into a stand-off at a football match carried out by Russian separatist and all-round bad guy, Ray Stevenson (possibly the only guy to match Bautista in height if not bulk). What follows is paper-thin and cliched, with sometimes awful dialogue, but it works - at least in part. As an action lover I can report that the early fights in the lift and the kitchen are the highlights here, the latter gloriously sadistic and violent, but this is a film that peaks early. Later on, with stunts and motorbike chases, it all gets a little too generic and Hollywood lite, but still held together with a fast pace and no-nonsense approach. A minor film, for sure, but a fun one with it.

The entire Stadium is in complete darkness. A stand just blew up 2 minutes before, and 40.000 spectators are running for his life in the middle of the fire and smoke, and the hero of the movie just founds the girl in just 30 seconds...

This is just one of the 400 nonsense things that this movie show us.