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.

This movie was remarkably bad. Was it a comedy? I guess so, but nobody laughed and there was not a single minute of this movie that was funny. The only thing about this movie that was any good was that eventually it mercifully did end and with it my torturous waste of 2 hours of my life. I cannot even believe that a script this bad was even green-lit for production into a movie that cost millions of dollars to make. This movie will be a gigantic financial bomb and another one for Vince Vaughn who has picked another very bad movie idea to star in. If this keeps up his career will be over in about a year.

One of the worst movies I have ever seen.

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