I actually had some expectations from this movie, Im a big fan of the
lower budget and simple action flick, and the trailer actually had me
very interested.
Let me also say that I don’t play video games and even though I’m very
well read this video-game just isn’t popular enough for me to know much
about, unlike say earlier adaptations like doom or mario etc, or the
coming halo.
The movie basically follows the formula take a popular video game, make
it into a 100 min script, put in a decent actor, a hot exotic chick,
and stuff it full of guns, explosions and a bunch of good one liners.
Yet somehow this movie fell bellow my expectations, and I have a
feeling the Indian Censor Board had lot to do with, scene after scene
of gratuitous violence and nudity fell pray to their hypocritical
morality. So much so that even some of the dialogues that I saw in the
teasers were butchered.
Despite this fact there is no doubt that the film has its weakness’s
such as:- 1)Lack of a good villain, a staple of older movies nowadays
its hard to come across a good one, a powerful hero needs a powerful
hero to really shine.
2)No really big scenes.
3)Weak and much rehashed script, almost everything has been seen on
film before.
4)Timothy Oliphant? While I agree he does have charisma and did carry
of his role quite well there is no doubt in my mind that it could have
been much better, he was good in the cool parts, but he just didn’t
look menacing enough when he had too.
Other than these things this movie is quite good.
Olga looks smoking hot even with the punk look, when she dresses up she
crosses over into the amazing territory, too bad the censor board cut
of most of her hot scenes, but she was one of the best things about
this movie.
Some of the one liners are really good, especially good were the
conversations between Olga and 47.
Many of the action scenes were well done although, the extra effort for
cool did show, nice to see swordplay in what was otherwise a gun film.
Humour wasn’t bad either.
In all a simple fun B-movie with loads of satisfying bloodshed and hot
scenes.
Not for everyone obviously on people who appreciate such simple action
films will enjoy this one.
-s weak script, poor villain, no big scenes, the extra effort shows in a
bad way.
+/-s timothy could have been better?.
+s loads of bloodshed and hot scenes, good acting all around, good
dialogues, OLGA.
total 6/10(this movie did fall below my expectations and I’ve been
true to that, cant help feeling that this movie will be much much
better without censorship but I don’t want factor that in, maybe when I
watch it again on DVD(which I will, when I don’t know) I may just come
back and change a few things or post another review.