Helloturia
I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.
Robert Joyner
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Lachlan Coulson
This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
Kayden
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
per-181
I made the mistake of watching this piece of garbage on Film4 last night. A severe mistake indeed. Walter Hill as director - that was supposed to be a promising start, but no. Never have I seen such an enormous collection of clichés, coupled with bad direction, worse writing and even more horrific acting. Totally unnatural lines all over the place, with vaguely sketched characters "explaining" the plot to their henchmen or to the "cops" in never ending monologues. Stallone tries to sound cool and hip by delivering faux Mike Hammer lines, but fails epically. He never was a good actor, but here he just looks like a poster boy for bad wigs. Avoid this film like the plague!
Michael_Elliott
Bullet to the Head (2012) ** (out of 4)James Bonomo (Sylvester Stallone) is a professional hitman who pulls a job with his partner. Later that night he is attacked and his partner is killed so he teams up with a Detective (Sung Kang) to find out who placed the hit on him.Walter Hill's BULLET TO THE HEAD just seems very old. I say that because Hill has been working this genre for decades and we all know that the same is true for Stallone. The two men have created some of the best actions movies out there but sadly them teaming up did nothing because the film itself is just rather lousy and feels as if both are just going through the motions.To say I was disappointed in this film would be an understatement. As I said, both Hill and Stallone have done so many good things that one would have hoped that by teaming up we'd get some sort of fun action picture but we don't. There are several issues with the film but the biggest thing is the fact that there's really nothing new here.We've seen this story done countless times before and much better. We've seen these type of action scenes before and much better. There's absolutely no chemistry between Stallone and Kang, which really kills the attempt at a buddy picture and of course we've seen that before. In fact, I thought Kang was incredibly dull here and brought nothing to the picture. Christian Slater has a thankless role but Sarah Shahi and Jason Momoa at least bring a little life.BULLET TO THE HEAD didn't even seem like a theatrical film as it felt like a direct-to-video release. The movie isn't awful by any stretch of the imagination but there's just very little life here and even less entertainment. It seems like an elderly movie trying to fit in on a new crowd and it just doesn't work.
markwoo
A sad and depressing little film which shows how badly time has ravaged Stallone. He has never been that much of an actor but as an ageing hit-man he simply is not credible. The axe fight is about as stupid an idea for a climax as I have ever seen and the idea that Stallone's character could ever prevail against someone of Jason Momea's physical prowess defies belief. The scene in the car where the bent local cop is holding his gun to Sung Kang's head before getting his own head shot by Stallone is, perhaps, even more far-fetched. How could Stallone approach the car unseen and line up such a difficult shot i.e. one that did not also put Sung Kang at risk of being in the line of fire. The rest of the film is full of clichés so familiar that I cannot help but think that film scripts are being written by a machine based solely on what was in films that made money before and repeating the same ideas in a slightly different combination. Brainless plotting, poor acting a real turkey. Anyone who rates this film is deluded!
Robert J. Maxwell
When it comes to brutality, you can go too far -- and they have gone it.It's got everything an action movie fan would want. First, there is Sly Stallone with his shirt off, only this time he's covered with tattoos. Next, there is the mild-mannered minority cop, Sung Kang, who teams up with hit man Stallone in order to find a smiling, high-echelon gangster who runs organized crime in Crescent City (ie., New Orleans). The gangster's chief muscle man who does the wet work is Jason Momoa, a heap of sarcomeres, who wipes out an entire room of people in cold blood. There's a delicious young brunette, Stallone's daughter, who is also tattooed, but not all over.The are gun shots galore, knifings, car chases, an explosion that destroys a fishing cabin and the dozen men inside. Plenty of mano a mano fights, it goes without saying. I gave up watching when Momoa abducted Stallone's daughter after decking two men. I didn't mind the abduction. It's just that Momoa is allowed to use the hoary device of bumping his head against somebody else's head in order to knock the enemy out. It's a violation of Newton's third law. I don't know much about physics but I know what I like.Stallone now has a neck the girth of a telephone pole and a raspy voice that can drop to such a low frequency that it can be heard only by elephants. He did a professional job in "Cop Land." It's a little sad to see how retrograde this film is.