"Some taken."
....more like need for a decent script polish and edit. Think of it like Jan de Bont's Twister - best watched on DVD so that you can fast forward through the tin-eared dialogue, by-the-numbers plotting and shabby performances to get to the perfectly-decent action scenes. There is clearly a decent action movie in here, and how much you will like it will depend on how forgiving of its faults you can be. The opening sequences show men playing with cars and women giggling in Daisy Dukes, which is about as good as the gender politics get for the rest of the film (with some Transformers-style racial stereotyping thrown in for added hilarity). It is far too long (over two hours) for this kind of film, and with frequently painful dialogue and some weak acting on display - even Dominic Cooper fails to find much to do with his woefully underwritten antagonist, and Aaron Paul (whilst mostly solid here) manages to blow the scene of his friend's death in hilariously overwrought fashion. However, the reason for the film - the race/chase set pieces - are fine, truly enhanced by 3D and it is a movie that at last finds a genuine and effective reason for D-BOX, combined with strong cinematography and exceptional use of some POV shots.
No comments:
Post a Comment