Just like with the Hunger Games series of movies, which originally were books written for teenagers, this movie series amazes me just ask much as I try and figure out why this boring idea is so popular with anyone, much less young adults.

It was two hours of mostly being bored, and wondering why one scene lead into another scene and trying to make sense out of the whole thing. I guess the overall idea of all this is that people are different and possibly can be classified into different categories and its OK for people to be different.

Unfortunately there is a third and fourth book in this series which will result in 2 more movies. I am not a fan of this movie or the previous one. Unless your a big fan of the books I would steer clear of this whole long boring mess.

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What amazed me about this movie was how good shape Sean Penn is in, and despite that he chain smokes
through this whole movie and smokes in real life. I long for the day when smoking is banned in all movies forever. When that day happens the world will definitely be a better place. As far as this movie, my main impression was that it was boring in spots, very average and you got the feeling that during the entire two hours you had seen everything that was in this movie many times before.

I give this movie just a marginally passing grade.

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This was a good revenge movie, one of the best I have seen in some time. The action sequences were not only well shot but quite believable. Liam Neeson has been in some bad movies lately, most especially the 3rd and last installment of the Taken series and it was good to see him back in something that was quite good. The end of the movie was rather predictable, but the ending was believable.

I definitely recommend this movie.