The movie is ok, it has decent dialogue and very well thought out action. However in spite of great action scenes and excessive violence the plot is poorly thought out relies on many unrealistic factors.
So firstly the good: the action is mostly well thought out with wounds affecting the fighting styles as the movie progresses, characters get tired and worn out showed by a slowing of pacing. Unlike recent action movies characters in a fight don't necessarily come at the main character one at a time. Whilst there are occasions where "bad guys" come at the "good guys" one at a time because they're preoccupied. Alternatively when the opposition are available to fight they do. In some scenes you can see multiple people fighting in a 2v1, group pile-on, 3v2's etcetera.
Next character arcs for some characters make sense. Tyler, the protagonist's, arc throughout the movie is one of self hate due to the inability to be there for his own child. But by the end he forgives himself. The main antagonist is self-destructive for the sake of revenge on the protagonist, forsaking everything in order to destroy the protagonist and his accomplices.
However despite the good, many aspects of this movie hang on the head of one character who extends this movie from being 55 minutes long into a 1 hour 50 movie. This character of course is the inexplicably stupid teenage boy named Sandro. Now don't get me wrong, Andro Japaridze does a great job of acting and none of the fault falls on his head. In fact for the script and dialogue given to his character, Andro Japaridze out performed the role. However due to the producers need to extend the movie and lazy writing, his character, Sandro, is turned into a plot device.
Firstly do the writers actually expect a elite spec-ops mercenary crew member to be reckless enough to leave a tactical cell phone on a table in eyesight of an angsty teen, but they also believe that the same teen who so far has demonstrated no functional capability to be able to sneak off with the phone and then send a message to the same "bad guys" that've abused his mother his entire life. But let that go and the movie continues to use this well-acted character as a poor plot device.
Next we get to a scene where Sandro is seemingly apologetic and reveals that he's been messaging the antagonist. But do any of the mercenary crew search him for the tactical cell he's been using? No. Let's just recall that one of the "highly trained spec-ops" crew is missing their tactical cell, and not one of the crew even thinks to confiscate it from the kid later? Then Sandro who's just admitted that he made a mistake decides to take off and surrender himself to the antagonist, leading to the final standoff.
During the final standoff Sandro, our all important plot device, decides to agreeably wear a suicide vest just to help out the antagonist.
So in conclusion the movie is good, but one character ruins it. Because of the lines and plot put into this one character. I have no dislike towards the actor who did a brilliant job, but the character was not well written enough, and it's a shame that they were forced into being a plot device used to extend the movie by an hour.
So firstly the good: the action is mostly well thought out with wounds affecting the fighting styles as the movie progresses, characters get tired and worn out showed by a slowing of pacing. Unlike recent action movies characters in a fight don't necessarily come at the main character one at a time. Whilst there are occasions where "bad guys" come at the "good guys" one at a time because they're preoccupied. Alternatively when the opposition are available to fight they do. In some scenes you can see multiple people fighting in a 2v1, group pile-on, 3v2's etcetera.
Next character arcs for some characters make sense. Tyler, the protagonist's, arc throughout the movie is one of self hate due to the inability to be there for his own child. But by the end he forgives himself. The main antagonist is self-destructive for the sake of revenge on the protagonist, forsaking everything in order to destroy the protagonist and his accomplices.
However despite the good, many aspects of this movie hang on the head of one character who extends this movie from being 55 minutes long into a 1 hour 50 movie. This character of course is the inexplicably stupid teenage boy named Sandro. Now don't get me wrong, Andro Japaridze does a great job of acting and none of the fault falls on his head. In fact for the script and dialogue given to his character, Andro Japaridze out performed the role. However due to the producers need to extend the movie and lazy writing, his character, Sandro, is turned into a plot device.
Firstly do the writers actually expect a elite spec-ops mercenary crew member to be reckless enough to leave a tactical cell phone on a table in eyesight of an angsty teen, but they also believe that the same teen who so far has demonstrated no functional capability to be able to sneak off with the phone and then send a message to the same "bad guys" that've abused his mother his entire life. But let that go and the movie continues to use this well-acted character as a poor plot device.
Next we get to a scene where Sandro is seemingly apologetic and reveals that he's been messaging the antagonist. But do any of the mercenary crew search him for the tactical cell he's been using? No. Let's just recall that one of the "highly trained spec-ops" crew is missing their tactical cell, and not one of the crew even thinks to confiscate it from the kid later? Then Sandro who's just admitted that he made a mistake decides to take off and surrender himself to the antagonist, leading to the final standoff.
During the final standoff Sandro, our all important plot device, decides to agreeably wear a suicide vest just to help out the antagonist.
So in conclusion the movie is good, but one character ruins it. Because of the lines and plot put into this one character. I have no dislike towards the actor who did a brilliant job, but the character was not well written enough, and it's a shame that they were forced into being a plot device used to extend the movie by an hour.