Reviews

To be honest, this review is more about the average viewer vs I guess Hollywood elite perception of what is good and what is not. The pace of this movie is snail like. It is filled with scenes like someone standing alone in a park, thinking to themselves, or remembering, or speaking telepathically with someone else who is standing alone in another park, or in a bridge. The faces show a range of emotion from slightly confused to that of a frog about to tongue slap a fly! Action scenes include a few people walking somewhere, or getting out of bed, or approaching another person standing alone in a park or on a bridge. The only action comes near the end of the film when they PLAY THE ENTIRE MOVIE IN FAST REVERSE. How someone could praise this is so beyond me much less receive awards?

Spoiler alert: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.

This show is awful! It's a lot like that bad Spike TV show 1000 Ways to Die. Here's something I have an issue with, the Narrator. If you're going to soak for a living, maybe learn how words are pronounced? "PitCAN Island" instead of Pitcairn, res-spirit-tory health instead of respiratory!

The production values are also low when it comes to original content. Most of what I've seen seems like stock footage "B roll" stuff.

Another off putting thing to me is, they are listing the 72 worst places to live, but they don't follow any order!

Okay 72 worst places to live, let's start with, you guessed it, number 31!

Symbolism, analogies, metaphors?!? This film has it all! Ah yes, also nausea and baby eating cannibalism! It's been a long time since I've seen such a pretentious pile o dung!

I DO NOT understand the haters of this movie. I found it fresh, surprising, and compelling. I liked the performances as well as the story. The director skillfully gets you emotionally attached to characters and then shoots them in the face! Loved it!

The first thing that strikes me about this movie is, why does it look SO bad? Is it the feel or style they are going for? I dunno, it just looks bad. Maybe they are trying to Vaseline screen the aging stars, who are all in great shape by the way, or are they saving on film? Do they even use film anymore? SPOILER ALERT Virtually every action scene here is over the top and totally unbelievable except for a short scene with Jet Li. The initial escape scene makes NO SENSE! Sly gets shot while going down a seemingly infinite zip line? Statham's got his back so he stays behind while they are surround and the rest of the team continues the escape on the water high speed style. Out of nowhere Sly and Jason are rescued by fledgling team member snipers them out of the situation. Sly grunts "Time for plan b" back to the water chase. Jet skis, for no apparent reason appear from nowhere and the team abandons the boat. Just when all is lost, Stallone and Statham zoom overhead in the plane they arrived in. How is this plan b? Wouldn't the boats and jet ski's be plan b. Jet skis shoot into the ramp of the plane as the plane struggles get get enough lift to take off before they crash into a huge damn. Hey, since we are having trouble gaining altitude, let's head for the HIGHEST POINT on the dam! Most of the action scenes pretty much follow this level of nonsense. Oh well, maybe the writing is good? Nope! Back story for the newbie team member to make us care about him when he gets killed pretty much goes like this, "So, how did you get into this line of work?" " I was in Afganistan for three years when my platoon got trapped in the oil zone. By the time we got out, four of my friends were dead. When I got back to base, they had shot the dog I was taking care of, so, I'd had enough killing for the day"! That's it? That's the best the writes of this mega budget could come up with? Also to the character, since you had enough killing you decided to become a mercenary where you would kill people all day! Speaking of death, I read a stunt man died making this POS. people die everyday, on the subway, in their sleep, lots o reasons, but honestly, I can't think of a bigger waste of life than to die for this movie.