Baseshment
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
WillSushyMedia
This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Married Baby
Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
arizona-43561
This movie was an absolute waste of 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. Don't waste your time on it. Boring, drags on and on and on with very little story. Loser of a movie for Nicholas Cage. He is not aging well and needs to stay out of action movies. I use the term 'action movie' loosely in this description.Watch something better. Perhaps an old Bruce Willis movie or Conair.
Spikeopath
Nicolas Cage stars as a reformed mobster who is forced to go back to his violent ways when his daughter is kidnapped by baddies.It is what it is really, a Nic Cage starrer that does exactly what the plot synopsis suggests. Does it bring anything new to the revenge formula of genre film making? Absolutely not. But on reflection there are very few that have improved upon originals from as far back as Fritz Lang's Fury in 1936. Sure there is more blood now, more gruesome deaths to put bums on theatre seats, but the majority of them remain soulless, existing only for the point of existing. The market is there for those who either enjoy such genre splatters, or for those who like me just merely wanted a brainless pic to pass the time away with - which of course means leaving said brain at the door.It's all very preposterous, even insulting at times, but this is actually no worse than some of the more praised revenge thrillers of recent times - but that just makes the point that ultimately the bar hasn't been set high for a considerable time now. So wake up film makers! Give us something new! 5/10
Tommy Blomqvist
I had a movie night with my wife last night and although neither she nor I like Nick did we made a valiant effort. Perhaps hoping that other actors would enhance the film... But no this is not a good movie on any level.It is never clear to me what Danny Glover or Peter Stormare characters are like and what drives them to take the (very) small actions that they do. And the wife should jump forward in time to join her real family because here she doesn't fit ;)When the carchase began, I had to pause and comfort my wife who now had started to sob because of how the intelligence of viewers was abused. At the end it is interesting how this movie seems to, on some levels, speak against violence and on the other obviously uses the overall bad action with loads of killings and torture for profit. I suspect the script writer intended something clever but it never got thru in this movie (or maybee even the script).I can recommend this film as a good example of how you can fail miserably.
Ben Larson
In my effort to see as many films of last years as I can, I come across a typical revenge film that is indicative of a Euripides tragedy. Reason giving was to passion as the protagonist attempts to avenge the death of his daughter.At the end, one thinks of Karma at work. The sins of the past being balanced in the future.But is is those sins that cause me to think throughout this movie. I see an Irish Catholic boy in Paul (Nicolas Cage) who presumably confessed his sins and received absolution, and who then went on to perform great works to put that sinful life behind him.But, I also see the stain of those sins remaining in his heart and soul. They never truly go away, and he reverts to his previous character and commits even greater sins as his passions consume him.Passion overcomes reason and causes Paul to reject those who love him, and to hurt his friends as well as his enemies.The sins of the father are visited upon the son, or in this case upon the daughter, played by Aubrey Peeples of Lake Mary, Florida, and a famed Sharknado actor.
