The problem with this movie, though, is that it is a neverending cliche. All of the characters, and their actions, are expected. Even their lines are cliche.
The only non-cliche moments were the worst of the entire movie. The whole FPS sports "subplot" was meaningless other than to establish the home life of a character that nobody cares about because he ruins the plan. Either that, or we don't care about this jerk who doesn't pay the people that work for him. In a movie of this nature, it is difficult to ask the audience to particularly care for one character, let alone two. And the problem here is that we don't care about any of them.
On a technical level, the whole ninja sequence was way too dark, and so were any scenes of hand to hand combat. There is no point in having hand to hand combat in a movie if you cannot see it. There were numerous times where the camera was shaken much too harshly to be intentional, even if it's on the shoulder. This is most notable in the "conference room" where Phillips and that woman are talking to the client. Also there were a great number of scenes where the focus was not on anything in the frame while actors are talking and it would wobble in and out. That's just bad film making. I assume someone was paid to do this movie, though.
I haven't seen those other movies, but this one is just really quite bad and a poor use of fantastic resources and opportunity.
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