LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

riklight It could have done with a better titlebut it's a clever movie, worth watching.

august-eighty Entirely decent film. Felt like there were far more characters than necessary, so story got little diluted and unnecessarily convoluted. Has the feeling of those circa 2000 films like Tailor of Panama - lots of eccentric characters - cops, drug cartels, con men / women, exotic locations, everyone trying to screw everyone over. Some decent dialogue, and memorable characters, and film has a good energy to it. Solid 6 or 7 film.However - once again Sharlto Copley is entirely unused. This guy is needs more roles, and more screen time. Brilliant in District 9, brilliant in Hard Core Henry - guy has insane range and his American accent is on point. Didn't even realize it was him till like his 3rd scene. Seriously - this guy needs his own franchise. Someone call his agent.Also underused was Charlize Theron. Fantastic character in this film, and felt they could have scrapped the Edgerton character, who was good, but they could have made the two character's one. Make Sharlto her brother, find another way to offload the "affair" subplot on some other minor character. They spent a lot of work trying to create the tragic reveal of the affair. Anyway - fantastic bit of character development in the car with Charlize's character, that played amazingly into her other scenes. But not enough time spent to make it go anywhere.Anyway, again, decent film. Just a lot of useless subplots and too many characters taking a lot of energy out of the story / pacing. Really felt it could be a much stronger film with half the cast, and just pinning 4 or 5 characters against each other, instead of the 12 in the film. If you liked this, highly recommend Tailor of Panama. Similar vibe, but much stronger script.

lukyboy1 This movie was pretty good. I did not have much expectation do to the ratings and some of the reviews. It was a fun movie, with comedy and action all in one. David Oyelowo was great as Harold. All in all good movie to relax and eat popcorn.

david-sarkies I was having a chat with a friend earlier about how many of the Hollywood movies seem to be reboots, remakes, and sequels, though one of the main reasons for this is that movies tend to be high risk endeavours costing at times hundreds of millions of dollars that actually trying something new is simply not worth it. I guess this is why some of the really original films actually end up being at the low end of the market, and it appears that this film certainly falls into that category. While the film itself isn't strictly original, there are elements of it that certainly set it apart from a lot of the other films that we see around the place. Basically it is about this middle manager who got his job simply because he was friends with one of the bosses. However, he is a nice guy, and the reality of the business world is that nice guys end up getting shafted. Well, he ends up in Mexico sorting out some business with a plant down there, and upon discovering what is really going on decides that he might try extorting some money out of the company, and the fact that his wife had just left him, there really isn't all that much left for him back in the states. This is one of those films that introduces us to multiple disparate characters who all eventually come together - well not quite, but there is a connection there. One of them is a guy that has been persuaded to go to Mexico and bring back some pills for analysis. However, there is also a Mexican drug lord that has been profiting off of the company's underhanded dealings, and when he discovers that he has also been cut off, decides that he wants to take what he believes to be rightfully his. I guess in the end it is the characters that really make this film, and that can actually work well - create the characters and build the film around them. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but then again if you have a well rounded character that will react in certain ways in certain situations then you are on the way to actually creating a half decent story. Okay, I won't necessarily say that this is one of the best films out there, but it certainly has its perks, and the characters really did stand out at times - particularly the protagonist Harold. Having a Nigerian accent also added to that authenticity. There is one thing about this film that stands out, and that is loyalty, or rather the lack of it. I noticed that out of all the characters in the film there were only two that could be considered honest and loyal - pretty much everybody else was completely untrustworthy. The question that is raised though really comes down to whether it is worth it. Well, it was a bit of a hit or miss in this film - not all of the dishonourable people got it, and not all of the decent people got away clean. Sure, a number of the nasty characters did get it in the neck, but a few of them managed to get away. I guess this is another other of this nice things about the film because while a number of these characters ended up meeting a rather sorry end, not all of them did.