Simply A Masterpiece

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Absolutely brilliant

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Ohh… This movie is special. I mean, when it ended I felt almost like characters in the movie. Maybe it is just me, but watching this movie takes me on the other side of the screen. Maybe people who designed the sets knew something many people don't, maybe the architecture was simple and realistic so it was easier to identify with it, maybe composer did something unorthodox, or was there any music at all?... maybe I was in a special mood, I don't know! But what I do know, is that despite being a quite generic action movie (hits almost everything in the cliché check-list) it has some amazing atmosphere which actually works fantastic with such special kind of acting (phlegmatic I would say) and some weird-cheap special effects. But overall, it is enjoyable and I recommend you watch it and I recommend you do it alone, for perfect experience.

For me, one of Lundgrens better performances as soldier and assassin showing what it's not so easy to leave the firm. Kill or be killed. But he gives hinds of that goes deeper. So the flashbacks which switch time and place and shows how he became the lone, tired wolf which wants to leave this business. Just one another job to do. The target is the same. His last "job" failed because of the new spotter which was connected with more unnecessarily bodies . But he sees that his target is not the only target today. The new spotter is an old fiend. In Fact the plot is not the work of a real genius but this film thrills. Not least the work of Gina Bellman which gives the film a warm note in this cold location and her character will be stronger as the viewer thinks at the beginning of the movie.

Whoever thought it was a good idea to make this film ought to be shot. The plot makes no sense at all, one minute these two characters are in a lift shaft, the next, they are in the middle of the jungle, then a desert, then back into the lift shaft again. They seem to change roles a lot too. One minute the lead guy is a friendly Russian, the next, he is chaining people to toilets and shooting his way to god knows where. The story also makes no sense at all, and the acting is very dodgy at places. If you chained someone to a toilet, surely to god you would hear them ripping it off the wall and dragging it PAST you as they escape?WHAT WERE THEY THINKING WHEN THEY MADE THIS???????????????

In my opinion, this movie is pretty uneventful and somewhat boring. It's okay to let long time pass between action sequences if you know how to fill the "downtime" well... This movie doesnt.However, this movie utilize some of the best lighting I've seen. And considering this is sort of a B-movie, it's simply amazing. They've used lots of colored, cleverly placed, spotlights to enhance the walls. You could almost be fooled to think the movie was designed by an interior decorator.So, if you are interested in the technical aspect of moviemaking, it's worth seeing just for this reason. This movie should be an excelent guide movie on how to use spectacular lighting the correct way if anyone are teaching a course in this.So, to sum up, slow movie, some stupid scenes that people have mentioned here before, but nice lighting makes it worth watching.