To say nothing at all about this movie would be a cop out… ha ha, i couldn’t help myself, sorry.
I love Kevin Smith movies and I know that he directed it, but whoever wrote it should have taken some lessons from him. The direction was fine, the action was fine, the dialog was so-so. It had cops and robbers and gang-bangers, what more could you want? Some of the torture methods used by both the cops and bangers were different. The cops had a goofy scene in the beginning, Tracy Morgan used every movie line he could think of to get a suspect to confess while Bruce Willis was on the other side of the glass listing off the movies, joined by his fellow officers and they watched while eating popcorn, that was funny. The Head Banger, as it were, would tie people to a chair, tie their arms to the chain link fence in his basement batting cage and practice his swing! That was something to see!
It had quite the cast list, some major players in some minor roles.
I think Bruce Willis was great, he was funny in an off beat quirky way, if you could call Bruce Willis offbeat…. He was tough, yet sensitive and goofy as all get out when it came to his daughter, as all good fathers are apt to do. It didn’t seem to far a stretch for him, he reminded me a little of Corbin Dallas in The Fifth Element, kind of laid back, sit back until he needs to jump up, then he jumps into action.
Tracy Morgan never shut up. I will state right here and now, I am just not a Tracy Morgan fan, I don’t think he’s funny and if you do, that’s quite alright with me, I’ll still respect you in the morning. He was annoying when it came to his, well, everything. I have nothing more to say.
Sean William Scott, again, another actor I really don’t groove on. I’m sorry, I might get kicked out of some clubs, but I am not an American Pie fan and Stifler just doesn’t do it for me. He never shuts up either, what is it with these guys?
Michelle Trachtenburg was in it for a minute as Bruce Willis’ daughter, nothing to report, she really didn’t have much of a role.
Jason Lee’s character was his typical arrogant, obnoxious self, need I say more?
Kevin Pollack was a detective, not sure if he was trying to channel Columbo, but it might have been coming through a bit, that’s one impression he seems to love to do. He was just annoying.
Adam Brody, another detective, just looked him up, he’s from The O.C., Gilmore Girls and a few other shows, what an idiot his character was.
Guillermo Diaz, now here was a bad ass Head Banger. Stereotypical to say the least, but it was fun to watch the wheels spinning as he was working out a way to torture or kill someone. Then, there was his sensitive side, with his love of baseball, bizzarre!
All in all, it had it’s good moments and it had it’s bad moments, the bad outweighed the good, really… outweighed the good…
this movie will be in the $2 theaters VERY soon and should be on DVD right after that…
sorry, just my opinion and i’m sticking to it!