Stallone plays Mr Smith, a reclusive and curmudgeonly neighbour to a young boy Sam in a run-down inner-city neighbourhood, whom the youngster befriends and Smith is the believed-long-dead superhero Samaritan, who needs to face a new version of his former nemesis - called, er, Nemesis - as the city descends into lawlessness. The opening comic book-styled backstory sequence sets up the movie effectively, and visually the whole film is shot appealingly with strong widescreen compositions. Young Javon Walton conveys an engaging mix of youth and street-smarts as Sam, who holds his own well against Stallone giving good solid character work here, and the relationship between them plays very well. As is usual with this type of film, the villains are less convincingly written, but not so much as to detract from the developing central relationship, which is strong enough to make this small superhero/action film gently enjoyable.
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