Very disappointed.  First, I think Keanu Reeves is an underrated actor.  If you don't think so, watch "The Gift".  He does have acting chops.  I thought he was good in this movie, but the end was just crap.  They pull you emotionally into the movie by having the bad guy kill his new puppy that his wife arranged for him before she died from an illness.  The death of the puppy is what sets him on a revenge killing spree.

The part that I hated was after he goes on this Kill Bill-esque killing spree where he slaughters hundreds of bad guys, when he gets to the guy he wants, I'm excited to see how he just messes the guy up.  Instead, he just simply shoots him and leaves.  The main bad guy got the same treatment as the bad guys who were guarding him.  I want some torture, or something that satisfies my thirst for the revenge of the death of his puppy.  If you're going to kill hundreds of guys for the purpose of getting to the guy you really want to kill, make it climactic.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0BMx-qxsP4

  sadistic... are we??   

Quote from: kroz on August 01, 2015, 05:22:23 PM
  sadistic... are we??   

Well moves don't cost 10¢ in this day and age so they tell me.   

Reminded me of Denzel Washington's "The Equalizer". Except in the end there, he electrocutes the head bad guy.

Quote from: kroz on August 01, 2015, 05:22:23 PM
  sadistic... are we??   

Since the early 1800s and the days of so-called "penny dreadfuls," or dime novels, Americans in particular have demanded greater accounts of violence and mayhem. In a 1974 interview in Dallas, "Cisco Kid" movie star Duncan Renaldo told me that more people died in movies, books and printed matter than EVER inhabited the Old West.

Is it truly any surprise that Hannibal Lecter or smiling murderous cherubs like Dexter roam loose on our terrain? Can we object all that much if we let a TV become a babysitter, tuned to the Blood-N-Gore channel?

Quote from: mdgiles on August 04, 2015, 07:59:25 AM
Reminded me of Denzel Washington's "The Equalizer". Except in the end there, he electrocutes the head bad guy.

I'm waiting to catch that one next...

Denzel Washington's film (and the Edward Woodward TV series) is here:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/189-5129374-1565351?url=search-alias%3Dmovies-tv&field-keywords=equalizer