FirstWitch
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Jakoba
True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Curt
Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Jackson Booth-Millard
I heard about this film a fair bit while it was out in cinemas, mainly because of the leading actor, I didn't know anything about the plot, so, despite slightly low ratings, I was up for it, directed by David Ayer (Training Day, Fury, Suicide Squad). Basically an elite DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) team, led by John 'Breacher' Wharton (Arnold Schwarzenegger), raid a drug cartel, during which they find $10 million in cash, they take it all and hide it in the plumbing. When they return later for the cash, it is missing, and the team are under investigation until the money is found, the investigation is lifted after a couple of months, following no evidence. The team are eventually brought back together to train, and celebrate the reunion with a night in a club, but then one by one members are being murdered. The first killed member wakes up in his RV, on train tracks, and hit by an oncoming train, the second killed member is found nailed to the ceiling, the third killed member is gunned down in his remote cabin. Investigating the murders is Detective Caroline Brentwood (The Sixth Sense's Olivia Williams) from the City of Atlanta, with Breach, who is haunted by the memory of his family murdered, they work together to find who is responsible, the obvious connection is the missing millions. The murderer responsible for the brutal killings is not so obvious, following a high speed chase they get what they deserve, it is revealed that Breach in fact kept all the mom. Breach uses it to get a lead to those responsible for killing his family, he murders the man and all his henchmen in a large bloody shootout, after which he is badly injured, and simply sits down to smoke a cigar. Also starring Sam Worthington as James 'Monster' Murray, Mireille Enos as Lizzy Murray, Terrence Howard as Julius 'Sugar' Edmonds, Joe Manganiello as Joe 'Grinder' Phillips, Harold Perrineau as Investigator Darius Jackson, Martin Donovan as Floyd Demel, Max Martini as Tom 'Pyro' Roberts, Josh Holloway as Eddie 'Neck' Jordan, Troy Garity as Agent Spolcheck and Kevin Vance as Bryce 'Tripod' McNeely. Schwarzenegger is always good at being tough, all the supporting cast members are stereotypes, but they do fine, the story is just about interesting to follow, I agree with critics it more about the shock factor, but that is exactly what kept me watching, all the grisly deaths, each more gory than the last, and the sequences with speedy chases and guns blazing are exciting, so overall it was a reasonable crime action thriller. Worth watching!
mpspanglerx
I give this a one for the movie they were trying to make... but what they made was absolute pure comic genius. For that, I give it a 10/10. I watched this movie three different times in one week because: A. It took me that many tries to get it. B. I had to show my friends its comedy gold. This is what the future of comedy will be. Just like what Tim & Eric did and is now growing stale. This will be the future. The movie is bad. It makes no sense. You can tell there was a lot of tension behind the scenes or something. Zero chemistry and I think that they had to make do with what they had in many scenes because of whatever reason. Either fighting, poor direction... something. The only thing that got me was: I can't believe Sam Worthington was in this. Like I'm not a huge movie guy, and most Hollywood people are vain trash not worth giving money, too. But I had at least at monochrome of respect for Sammy. LMAO. Gone, now. It just... an epic level of bad... not hooky like Army of Darkness. None of that... its bad acting, cinematographic nightmare, bad direction, terrible editing...If you loved this movie in the way that I did... Netflix the recent Steven Seagal Movies... man those are good.
ericaharris1908
How far Arnold Schwarzenegger has fallen. The script of this movie was written by a 12 year old. No wait, I don't want to offend 12 years old, this script was written by chimpanzees, wait no, I don't want to offend chimpanzees. This script was made by one celled amoebas...This has to be one of the lazest scripts I have ever heard. Were the screen writers going for the genius book of world record for the most curse words in a single movie? Even my husband who curses regularly thought it was too much. We stopped watching after fifteen minutes in, it was just ridiculous. There was absolutely no dialog, just f! That, mother f! That. You could not even tell what the story was about. As I was watching the movie, I said those gangsters sure are cussing a lot, my husband said they aren't gangsters they are the cops. Well I be. Cursing and shooting for what ever reason that sums up this poor excuse for a movie.
jramza-1
My 15 year old son and I LOVE Arnold and his movies. We're pretty easily entertained whether it's an action flick or a deeper, character-driven movie. But we were both in agreement - this was 2/10. -Long, boring drinking scenes (10-20 minutes) of guys back-slapping, howling and acting all awesome (the dialogue had to be at least 50% "f-ck". I've got nothing against expletives, seriously, unless they become the sole dialogue in multiple long, boring scenes, as a means of conveying almost nothing to ANY individual character development. After a while, you're left scratching your head asking: "is there even a story to this movie?" And worse, when something does finally happen -a series of gruesome murders occur (in unrealistically over the top bloody detail) you are left wondering why you really don't care. At all. For anyone who is dying. Not anyone. -when the story does finally take shape, the summary is pretty insanely lame: (complete spoiler here): a DEA agent's wife and son are killed by Mexican cartel. His police unit steals money from another cartel, which he then steals from his unit, so (in the final 10 minutes of the movie) he can give it all to a Mexican sheriff for info on where his family's killer is, so he can kill him and then smoke a cigar as he bleeds to death. That's it. Wow, that's pretty much it.