If you're an absolute action fanatic, and you're hoping to see plenty of it in this, lower those expectations now. While there are some fantastic action scenes at the beginning and end, the middle is where things really slow down. Literally like half of this movie is just showing McCall's ordinary day-to-day life in Sicily, which was to me, a very surprising decision by Antoine Fuqua, since anybody with a brain would know that an overwhelming majority of the moviegoers for this are gonna be die-hard action fans, yet this film possibly has the least of that out of the whole trilogy. But what annoys me the most is the fact that our protagonist, our *main* character, barely even has a role in the plot that unfolds. He starts and finishes the story, but other than that, he's almost entirely unnecessary! It's actually Dakota Fanning's character that keeps the story ticking along, and then every now and then Denzel Washington's character drops in a bit of key information to make it *seem* like he's majorly involved. And linking to this, where on Earth does he even get this information from? This was actually a recurring theme throughout the series (so not just in this sequel), but still, certain things just don't have any clear explanation, like for example, how did he figure out the bad guys' location? It doesn't at all make sense. All they had to do was show us how he managed to find out these elusive details and the movie would have flowed along nicely. But as a result of not doing this, it feels like the film untimely jumps straight into the action.
But anyway, I'm talking way too negatively about a picture that I actually had a lot of fun with. Even though it does just mainly depict an old man going about his day in a friendly, sociable area of Italy, I strangely didn't get bored in the slightest, even though I could easily describe it as boring (if you can somehow understand what I mean). And the action sequences were epic, just as they were in the prequels to this. Not one bit dragged for me.
In conclusion, whilst I'm ever so slightly disappointed that they didn't end on a big one, I am still very satisfied with my cinema trip, as it was a great feature to kick back to and take in.
But anyway, I'm talking way too negatively about a picture that I actually had a lot of fun with. Even though it does just mainly depict an old man going about his day in a friendly, sociable area of Italy, I strangely didn't get bored in the slightest, even though I could easily describe it as boring (if you can somehow understand what I mean). And the action sequences were epic, just as they were in the prequels to this. Not one bit dragged for me.
In conclusion, whilst I'm ever so slightly disappointed that they didn't end on a big one, I am still very satisfied with my cinema trip, as it was a great feature to kick back to and take in.