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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Myself

This is your standard unstoppable badass that was wronged and left for dead and is now out for revenge flick. With a few exceptions.

The bad exceptions:
• There are two other sub plots going on, one following the cops that are after him trying to stop him and the other following an assassin that has been hired to kill him y one of the men who wronged him. Despite nobel efforts on the part of the actors, and even some serious fleshing out of characters, these segments are just never as compelling as the main narrative. And they spend so much time on them too.
• There is a bit of a twist at the end that didn't feel needed. It's not that it wasn't done well, it's just that it takes you out of the movie in what was otherwise a more believable film. It's just such a movie moment, my suspension of disbelief couldn't take it.

The good exceptions:
• The badass is Dwayne Johnson and he is great. There's actually a tortured soul behind this guy, not just a killing machine. He doesn't has much but it's all written on his face. I think Dwayne Johnson is actually a pretty good actor. You may disagree, but he got me invested in the action.
• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is just the best. The scene between him and Johnson is tense and dramatic and had me on the edge of my seat. Did not expect that going into this film.
• Oliver Jackson-Cohen play the assassin and he is very handsome.

The two side storylines of drug abusing cop with a troubled past and the assassin with a success complex aside, this was a better-than-expected ol' fashioned revenge flick.