Title: Implausible
Product review: By "implausible" I don't mean the over-the-top action that has become part of these types of movies. What actually made the original work was Jan Michael Vincent's cool and that you could see Bronson, in his usual flat style, wanting to mentor him. I thought Statham's character was the equal to Bronson's, updated for our time, but given how he begins the film, there's no way he would take a guy like Ben Foster's character on. Once that happened, and Sutherland left, all the "class" went out of the movie and it became the usual shoot 'em up. Since this is a remake of a good movie, I think the comparison is fair and again, the flaw is in the Foster character. I also, like some reviewers here, would have liked to see some training without the jump to the student taking out a room of guys shooting left-handed, scaling buildings, etc. So. Lose yourself in the action but there is no story and Statham is ill-used, Foster mis-cast.
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