- Film Review
- Reviewed By Dave Aldridge
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3 out of 5
Sylvester Stallone and director Walter Hill (The Warriors, The Long Riders) team up for an endearingly retro action film that puts the veteran Hill back behind the camera for the first time since 2002 prison yarn Undisputed. Harking back to the director's 1980s heyday of hit buddy-cop movies like 48 HRS and Red Heat,, it sees Stallone's tattooed hitman reluctantly teaming up with a straight-arrow cop (Sung Kang) to face a mutual foe in Jason Momoa's sadistic killer. There's decent chemistry between the leads but effortlessly stealing every scene is Momoa, whose Rock-type blend of brain and brawn turns him in to a terrific boo-hiss baddie. Hill should be applauded, too, for resisting the temptation to have Kang play a stereotypical martial artist. Of course, the plot is familiar and derivative, but some pithy one-liners and bone-crunching fights more than compensate in a film that's surely bound for guilty pleasure status.
Cast and crew
Cast
- James Bonomo, "Jimmy Bobo"
- Sylvester Stallone
- Taylor Kwon
- Sung Kang
- Keegan
- Jason Momoa
- Marcus Baptiste
- Christian Slater
- Lisa Bonomo
- Sarah Shahi
- Robert Nkomo Morel
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Louis Blanchard
- Jon Seda
- Hank Greely
- Holt McCallany
- Ronnie Earl
- Brian Van Holt
- Detective Towne
- Marcus Lyle Brown
Crew
- Director
- Walter Hill
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