By Daniel Bradley
Jason, you've done it again.
This one may be predictable, may have all the elements of every other gangster/Jason Statham film you've seen before, (disarmed bad guys, compact fight scenes, gun battles, drugs, money, gangs, car chases, bent coppers and a conspiracy that goes straight to the top)… but it stands solidly on it's own cliches.
You can easily put this in the pile of Jason S films you'll get round to seeing, I did, but I saw it out of some loyalty to the genre. I felt like a lighthearted, mindless action film where the plot doesn't matter and the next bullet is only minutes away. And 2012 answered with Safe.
Good bits: Direction, the use of mirrors for multi-directional action.
Bad bits: Story. The last minute antagonist. The apathy for the main characters.
For fans of: The Transporter, War, Crank.
Rating: 5/10
