Brilliant and touching

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The style reminds me of an episode of the old Sweeney series with extra violence and of course Jason doing his thing. It definitely does not come across as a movie but a BBC produced crime drama.Nothing spectacular and not anywhere near as good as Transporter, Mechanic but will pass the evening with a beer and some crisps but thats about it!

Detective Sergeant Tom Brant (Jason Statham) is a hard cop in southeast London willing take anything including a hockey stick to the bad guys. Cops are being targeted. Sergeant Porter Nash (Paddy Considine) is brought in to head the manhunt. He's ridiculed for being gay but finds a supporter in Brant. The killer makes reporter Dunlop (David Morrissey) his contact. Brant and Nash zero in on Barry "Blitz" Weiss (Aidan Gillen) as their suspect. Brant remembers a run-in with him a year ago.This is a hard-boiled cop drama. This wants to be a gritty harsh movie. It does come off as another modern grim British TV cop show with bigger actors. Considine fits right in. Statham seems to be itching to be the Transporter. It wouldn't hurt him to play slightly against type especially in a movie which wants to be taken more seriously. I like the grim tone but Statham may be at cross-purposes.

Blitz is like an extended television show that drags on too long, fails to make you care much about the characters, and features an excess of gore and violence in hopes its audience will overlook a badly flawed plot.*****Spoiler Alert*****If you care about story lines, for example, you'll be bothered by the matter of fifty thousand pounds that this screenplay inexplicably botches to the point of utter absurdity, shattering any pretense of a rational and logical story. The perpetrator stays at a hotel following his murder of an informant and theft of the victim's thick, open manila envelope stuffed with the cash. When police on a tip raid this malefactor's room, he flees out the window and leads Jason Statham on an extended foot chase. He's wearing light clothing and obviously does not have this bulky envelope on him when he's finally cornered and arrested in a railroad yard. Why, one wonders, would he leave the cash behind?Next thing you know, he's released for lack of evidence following police interrogation and is handed this same envelope along with his personal effects as he laves the station. How did the police get it since he didn't have it on him (did they find it in his abandoned hotel room?), and why didn't they discover the money since it was open? And since they could not have failed to see the cash, why didn't they put together that it was the same fifty thousand pounds an informant had just been killed for, directly linking the man they were setting free with a brutal murder? You get the picture.Yet another example of unforgivably sloppy screen writing is when the murderer calls and boasts to a newspaper reporter, who records him. When police are tipped to this fact, for some reason not one of them thinks to get the recording from the reporter to analyze the voice and compare it to that of their prime suspect. It doesn't reflect well on London's finest. Thank heavens no police force would ever be this abysmally stupid in the real world. In short, unless you feel that violence and clichés trump a ridiculous plot and insipid character development, you will probably find Blitz a gross insult to your intelligence.

A good old-fashioned film where justice gets delivered by a cop who bends the rules and does it with pleasure and panache. The plot is nothing original and the pace is slightly slow, but the movie delivers a very satisfying payoff after all the buildup. This is not your typical Jason Statham movie where he takes on multiple assailants multiple times with superhuman martial arts moves that belong more in the Matrix movies than in real life. The few fights there are, are realistic, and the final one especially is very well done - no fancy kung-fu moves, just an expertly delivered beat down that will leave you basking in a warm glow of satisfaction.Pauline Kael called Dirty Harry "fascist" - if you're in her camp you will hate this movie, but if like me you're in the other camp - you know what I mean - you'll love it.