I kinda like the premise of this movie. However, I don't kinda like Paul Walker. I still can't take him seriously. He's like Keanu Reeves Lite. But it could just be me. Maybe I'm prejudiced against skinny dudes with pretensions of toughness. Who knows?
The Skinny: Bank robbers versus a relentless detective hot on their trail. Kick-ass action ensues.
The Helmer: John Leussenhop - Lockdown (2000).
Release Date: 27th August 2010
The Prediction: This looks to be a great movie, but it seems to have however, in my books, two weak links: Paul Walker and evil Jedi Hayden Christensen. I still view them as teen-agers mixing about with grown men. Even though I enjoyed the crap out of Jumper (2008), because it has been a fantasy of mine to just 'jump' anywhere on the planet, and I did think that true account of lying journalist Stephen Glass in Shattered Glass (2003) was highly entertaining, I can't take him seriously. Again, he is the Paul Walker of the alternate universe where its okay to pretend to play tough men. Having said that, the premise of this movie is pretty sound, and it does have the excellent London bloke Idris Elba (which is yet to get a true, teeth-sinking meaty role apart from that of Stringer Bell in the sprawling cops and politics HBO original The Wire) and theres Matt Dillon in it (always good which way you look at it), and the current, very edible It Girl Zoe Saldana, who can't seem to do anything wrong. On the whole, the pros outweighs the cons. The trailer strongly suggests a very fast paced, all-action film with a seemingly solid script.
