a5c7b9f00b Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his actions against a biker gang went horribly wrong and it cost the life of his bosses son. He is recently widowed and is left with a 9 year old daughter, Maddy. He decides to quit the turbulent and demanding life of thrill for Maddy&#39;s sake and retires to a small town. His daughter fights off a boy who is bullying her at school, and this sets in motion a round of events that end in his direct confrontation with the local Meth drug lord. His past history with the biker gang also enters the arena, making matters more complex. But he has a mission in his mind to protect his daughter and he is ready to pay any cost that it demands. A former DEA agent moves his family to a quiet town, where he soon tangles with a local meth druglord. Written and financed by Sly Stallone - absolutely mindless script that reads like he saw a couple of episodes of Breaking Bad and had a GREAT IDEA! It probably would have been fine if it was done 30 years ago, but the same story has been played out SO MANY times now…ugh. <br/><br/>How much did Stallone pay these actors to do this? Franco? Come on…this is a guy that&#39;s offered a lot of scripts. That he would sign on to this film tells me Stallone threw some crazy big money his direction. I doubt he did it to hang out and bake with his fellow actors.<br/><br/>Coming over here and reading the reviews I can guarantee they are from people involved with the film.<br/><br/>If anybody finds the stats on what the actors were paid, please share. The thing is with a Jason Statham movie is that you absolutely know what you will get. I don&#39;t think he ever made another movie and I doubt he could actually. It&#39;s basically always the same pattern with a slightly different story. Without spoiling anything, except if you never saw a Jason Statham movie before, he&#39;s a bad ass good guy that did pretty bad stuff to others because he&#39;s so awesome, and so he creates a ton of enemies all out for revenge. He then decides to quit that thug life and tries to be the good role model in his community but somehow at one point his past finds him and he needs to teach everybody a lesson again on how you don&#39;t mess with Statham or his family. At first it&#39;s always a gentle warning, and the bad guys don&#39;t get that, so then he has to go in full-Statham-mode and destroy everybody without him having a scratch. That&#39;s about it. If you don&#39;t like those kind of revenge stories just don&#39;t watch the Statham movies because that&#39;s basically what you get every time. I only scored it a five because it lacks originality and the acting skills aren&#39;t that great. The action is okay but all predictable. I might have scored it a bit more if it was my first Statham movie but it isn&#39;t, so there you go. The material plays out like a particularly busy episode of Sons of Anarchy, possessing a peculiar joylessness that's anathema to the success of films like this.
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