This movie has a lot of punching in it. Some of which occurs when the arm of the puncher is on fire, which is neat.
In between the punching there is a lot of shooting at various things - people, helicopters, cars and so forth. A train is derailed while people are punching and shooting each other on it (or shortly thereafter).
A very generous number of scenes also depict people and other objects being thrown through plate glass windows to good effect.
Chris Hemsworth is the agent of much of this. But its not the cheeky and likable Chris Hemsworth we see in the Thor movies. Its a very boring Chris Hemsworth who looks stoic while shooting lots of bad guys and getting shot and beaten several times himself without it having much effect. He doesn't do a bad job of that I suppose, but really you could put pretty much anyone in there to get the same performance. Its a waste of his talent.
There isn't really much of a story here. Its about an action hero who has to go save a family that is in a prison, children included, and he breaks them out of the prison basically by killing almost everyone inside, and then escaping on an armored train that he had handily prepared to have waiting next to the prison for him, and then he gets them on the armored train which is immediately attacked by armed helicopters which action man shoots down with some medium machine guns that were on the armored train that had been left parked next to the prison that he had just escaped from. Then the train runs out of tracks and the brakes don't work so they crash and have to continue their escape by other means and eventually end up at a very modern high rise office building where much of the people-getting-thrown-through-windows scenes I alluded to earlier take place. Action man is left dangling from the top of the building with only one hand, is shot in that one hand, it doesn't affect him. Bad guy gets killed. Lots of emotional dialogue takes place between him and the family he had saved, one of whom is slightly mad because he killed his dad at the prison but whatever he gets over that. The end.
I mean, I like movies with punching, with train crashes, with bad guys getting killed. But I have to actually care about the protagonist for any of it to work and the constant and confused chorus of punching and shooting was not structured in a way that allowed me to do so.
In between the punching there is a lot of shooting at various things - people, helicopters, cars and so forth. A train is derailed while people are punching and shooting each other on it (or shortly thereafter).
A very generous number of scenes also depict people and other objects being thrown through plate glass windows to good effect.
Chris Hemsworth is the agent of much of this. But its not the cheeky and likable Chris Hemsworth we see in the Thor movies. Its a very boring Chris Hemsworth who looks stoic while shooting lots of bad guys and getting shot and beaten several times himself without it having much effect. He doesn't do a bad job of that I suppose, but really you could put pretty much anyone in there to get the same performance. Its a waste of his talent.
There isn't really much of a story here. Its about an action hero who has to go save a family that is in a prison, children included, and he breaks them out of the prison basically by killing almost everyone inside, and then escaping on an armored train that he had handily prepared to have waiting next to the prison for him, and then he gets them on the armored train which is immediately attacked by armed helicopters which action man shoots down with some medium machine guns that were on the armored train that had been left parked next to the prison that he had just escaped from. Then the train runs out of tracks and the brakes don't work so they crash and have to continue their escape by other means and eventually end up at a very modern high rise office building where much of the people-getting-thrown-through-windows scenes I alluded to earlier take place. Action man is left dangling from the top of the building with only one hand, is shot in that one hand, it doesn't affect him. Bad guy gets killed. Lots of emotional dialogue takes place between him and the family he had saved, one of whom is slightly mad because he killed his dad at the prison but whatever he gets over that. The end.
I mean, I like movies with punching, with train crashes, with bad guys getting killed. But I have to actually care about the protagonist for any of it to work and the constant and confused chorus of punching and shooting was not structured in a way that allowed me to do so.