Terrible. Just terrible...


First of all you'll have to suspend your disbelief when you see people shooting guns at each other while wearing bulletproof vests. You'll find this very, very difficult to do as you ask yourself why they're standing square on, and when they're not standing square on they still get hit as if they're square on. Next you have to forget about the likelihood of the arm getting hit, as it's unprotected and right in the firing line - around the same sized target as the vest. Being hit by a bullet running along your outstretched arm is often fatal, but it never seems to happen in this movie - just a nice group of bullets to the vest. Finally you have to ask yourself why they don't just use paintball guns instead of real guns and vests - the result would be the same.

Oh and the method of starting the quickdraw was stupid too - it took away reaction time, substituting it with anticipating when something is going to hit the ground. Ridiculous.

There's no story, and lengthy 'going on a journey' bits so the scriptwriter didn't have to write more than four pages, which must have taken him all of ten minutes.

As for Mickey Rourke - WTF??? He mumbled through some rubbish for a couple of minutes, then took his shirt off (entirely unnecessarily) and the film was over a minute later (although the ending was probably the best bit, and was nicely staged and shown under the ending credits).

However, the presence of Frieda Pinto made the experience of watching this worthwhile - just.

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