Acts of Violence

Good

It was like Taken-lite. And instead of Liam Neeson and a daughter, we had 3 brothers and a sister. So for those of you keeping score at home, it took 3 brothers to do what 1 Liam Neeson can do. And in this movie, the hostage was much less helpless than Liam's stupid daughter.Be that as it may, the moral of the movie continued with the same themes as the Taken series. That is, girls should not go out unescorted and act like drunken whores or they may get abducted and sold into sex slavery. Unless, of course, their father is Liam Neeson or their fiance is a member of a family composed entirely of special forces soldiers. In those cases, they'll be fine and can proceed worry-free with the whoring. But for the rest of women of the world, watch your backs.Convoluted message, I admit. I also should say it was poorly shot, most of the characters were stand-in caricatures, and the plot was extremely thin.But it was still awesome. Sometimes movies don't need to be high art to be great. They just need to let the audience have a good time.Summary:Pros:-shows accurately that police won't do squat when you need them most-portrays gun owners as not crazy, but rather righteous vigilantes ridding the streets of the worst criminals-Bruce Willis killed some bad guysCons:-more bad guys didn't die-some good guys died-bruce willis didn't kill more bad guys

Gather round and hear a tale of a movie that is absolutely ridiculous, but by gum is sort of enjoyable in its B level revenge pic insanity.Note that spoilers will abound here.First off, for Bruce Willis being billed as the top star, he's really not in this movie a whole lot. He plays a jaded detective looking into a drug ring led by Mike Epps that traffics young women. Unfortunately for Willis, Epps is protected by some sort of legal loophole nonsense that is never properly explained. Two of Epp's idiot henchmen, who should never have been let near a drug operation this sophisticated, pick a fight with feisty Mia and kidnap the young woman while she's out at a bar. Mia happens to be engaged to Roman, the youngest of three brothers. The oldest, Dekker, is a PTSD riddled veteran who snaps into military mode when Mia goes missing and rather than go to the police, immediately demands Roman and Brandon join him on a wild vigilante ride to get her back. I'm going to throw in here that Brandon is actually a happily married family man and NOT some sort of paramilitary sniper. Bruce Willis disapproves publicly of the three brothers' bullet riddled methods, but privately he sure admires their flippant law breaking.I literally found myself making a list of ridiculous things that happened while watching this movie:1. Dekker, who has demonstrated complete instability when it comes to being able to deal with his violent past, is immediately trusted by Brandon and Roman as having a LOGICAL "bloody ride to vengeance" plan?2. Brandon, who has been established as a family man, is guilted into helping by his notably violent older brother and emotionally compromised younger brother.3. The police are just sort of like "eh" about Mia going missing when you can HEAR her kidnapping on a phone?4. How does Dekker have C4? Seriously, this man is insane and he's got an arsenal and no one makes a comment about that?5. Why is Brandon a Green Beret level sniper? That's just never explained.6. Why, when his two older brothers seem to be hardened warriors, does Roman not seem to know how to hold a gun?7. Why is Brandon's wife okay with all of this? She's literally like "have fun honey".8. Why does Bruce Willis hate his boss? That's never completely clear.9. Why in the world is this drug cartel using elephant tranquilizers? That seems like it would be hard to get, expensive, and completely unnecessary.10. They're sophisticated enough to use GPS trackers, armed guards, and fancy drugs, but for some reason Mike Epps has hired two dudes hot off the street who can't seem to find their way out of a paper sack to be his top henchmen?11. How did the cartel find Brandon's wife? Why did they not even CONSIDER that they might LOOK for Brandon's wife? Did Brandon just forget he had a wife there for a while?12. Roman goes completely to pieces when Mia is kidnapped, but when Brandon comes home to his wife tortured and killed everyone is just sort of...sad? Like maybe on the level of sad as when you find out that neighborhood cat you really liked has died?13. No one really addresses the fact that Brandon's wife would be alive if ROMAN hadn't insisted on going after Mia himself. Roman says "this is all my fault" and my immediate reaction was "It sure is, dude".14. Brandon is the only brother killed, which should bring Oscar level out pourings of grief, but withing minutes we're seeing a happy shot of Roman and Mia and Dekker with Mia and Roman's new son, presumably after Roman and Dekker get out of prison15. Seriously, is no one going to comment that Dekker is dangerous and probably a serial killer?16. Is no one going to comment that Dekker is the one who came up with the plan that got Brandon and his wife killed?17. Why were they all allowed back in the house that is still an active crime scene? Why do they go back when they know Mike Epps is still out there and has JUST killed Brandon's wife?18. Was Brandon just like the least favorite brother because seriously he had no dog in this fight and he AND his wife end up getting killed?This movie was just...ridiculous. It's in the vein of Four Brothers and Taken, but rather than waste its time even pretending to make sense it just plunges right in to the insanity. That all being said, I didn't hate the movie. It went so fast with no pretense of explaining anything that I never lost interest. Cole Hauser, Shawn Ashmore, and Ashton Holmes are handsome vigilantes and Mike Epps is suitably smooth in his role. Just go in with no expectations and you won't hate it.

Loved it

This movie's plot was obvious within the first 10 minutes but with that in mind, it was still a fun watch. Yes, the protagonists had unbelievable amounts of plot armor and making the main brother/combat vet a deep poet was beyond cringe but meh, I still liked it.I think the movie should have explained the families relationships better. It was briefly mentioned that they were adopted siblings but it still seemed weird that they all ended up marrying each other. Just a few more lines,-hell even straight up exposition- would have cleared that up and made it way less awkward. I know Cole Hauser is big time now thanks to Yellowstone but I thought he and the brothers all kinda sucked in this movie. The one sister dies with like 2 lines in the movie and the other one was actually the best part of the movie outside of her performance at her bachelorette party which just seemed super canned. Also, why is she friends with a stripper if she's so moral? That just doesn't track lolOutside of the main fam, the villains were cartoonishly bad but sometimes in a dumb action movie that is ok so I can live with that. I really wish this had more of Bruce Willis in it but it still does ok. I had heard in his last years he's really become a crusty old guy and tough to work with but I thought he had decent chemistry with the rest of the cast in this one. We're not talking Riggs and Murtaugh here, but it was decent. Can't even remember the last time I saw Sophia Bush in anything and I was disappointed she didn't have a bigger role as well.Overall, I dont think I'd watch this one again but it was just good enough to keep me from finding something else to watch. 3/5

I received the movie in a very timely manner. It's exactly what I ordered and it showed up in excellent shape ! Thank you so much !

Great movie good action worth the buy

Supper danke

Bien arrivé aujourd'hui, bien protégé dans son enveloppe à bulles et Neuf, merci Momox !Cette fois, BRUCE WILLIS doit aider Roman McGREGOR et ses frères à retrouver sa fiancée, enlevée par des trafiquants d'êtres humains, dirigé par 1 businessman véreux.1 Thriller musclé où BRUCE WILLIS excelle, même si c'est pas 1 Chef-d'œuvre se laisse regarder et prend aux tripes jusqu'à la fin.Grosse pensée pour toi JOHN McCLANE, tu nous manques et t'aimons, toi qui nous a tant prouvés que tu as la DIE HARD !

you can't go wrong with a movie that has Willis in it. great movie.

Même si l'histoire rappelle celle des « 4 frères », ce film avec BW en co-star est au-dessus de la moyenne de part la qualité de l’histoire et le jeu des comédiens. BRD ras. Bien. Amicalement.