A father chases down the men who kidnapped his daughter. With the help of the husband of a reporter who went missing investigating the crew, lots of bones are broken and many many people die.
If you are just interested in great action sequences and don't care if the plot works then run out and see THE FURIOUS ASAP. The action sequences are incredible. For most people I know the action was enough and thats fine. On the basis of that its worth seeing.
On the other hand if you want a film that has a plot to hang the action on you will be disappointed.
The plot line is only a faint sketch of thing. It is as simple as what I wrote above, however that doesn't allow for real characters or turns that make sense. Characters are based on their physical traits. One guy is good with a bow, a fat guy is an unkillable bull, ect. There is no real development other than what can be fit into a five sentence. As a result I connected to no one.
Of course it doesn't help that the plot turns are ludicrious. I'm not talking about characters surviving impossible to survive fights. Rather I am talking about plot turns that make no sense. I mean one guy wipes out a police headquarters full of cops, and during a prolonged battle in said headquarters not on patrol cop enters. The film sets up a group of people as bad guys and then in the next scene in which they they appear, everyone is killed. I could list more but there are too many things that make you go WTF.
And yes I know this is an action movie, but at the same time I would like a plot that make sense within it's own story. This doesn't. It doesn't even have a viable reason for the fights to happen. I say that because over the course of the day I saw the film numerous people insited this was one of the greatest action films ever made and compare it to THE RAID. I think that's not a good comparrison because THE RAID, despite having a slender plot thread, has a valid reason for what happens, the cops are making an arrest of a bad guy. You don't need much more than that. It makes sense. Here the plot is the daughter is kidnapped, which works, except that we get these odd shadings that make it not seem right, Like the cops do nothing to help. Yes corruption, but at the same time it never feels right.
On the other hand the action is great and you should just see it.
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