Stars Sylvester Stallone, Sang Kung, Sarah Shahi, Jasom Momoa, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jon Seda, Brian Van Holt and Christian Slater Directed by Walter Hill Following Schwarzenegger's return to the leading role in The Last Stand and preceding Bruce Willis' fifth attempt to Die Hard, we have Sylvester Stallone continuing his action man resurgence with this Walter Hill flick. And it fair to say that Stallone looks remarkable and carries himself far better than one might expect of the ageing star. Not to say that Bullet to The Head is an action masterpiece. Stallone plays an ageing hitman in New Orleans. Following an uneasy job, his partner is killed and a cop (Sang Kung) comes to him with a proposition of teaming up to find the mastermind behind the hit. So the movie follows the fairly straight line of moving up the chain of bad-guys to find this mastermind. Complicating the matter of this unusual team-up is a beefy mercenary (Jason Momoa) working for the mastermind, and gunning for the hitman for increasing personal reasons. This is, of course, a simplification of a simple plot, and it's in this simplicity that the movie thrives. As with most of his movies, director Hill has essentially made a western laden with testosterone filled characters heading for that showdown. Of course there are the requisite action set-pieces along the way, although not quite the bombastic over-the-top summer blockbuster variety. The few fight scenes are brutally grounded and most of the action staging is fairly old school, giving the movie a nice gritty feel. At the same time, it might feel like the movie is a couple of decades late to the big screen, or it might belong on a cable movie channel like Cinemax. Still, with solid pacing, a decent if stilted story, acceptable action with a pretty good final fight (even if it's reminiscent of the final fight in Hill's classic Streets Of Fire) and fair performances from the stars, the movie entertains well enough. There's nothing much to really expect and there's also nothing that really impresses. Very much a "guy movie" this adaptation of a graphic novel by Matz is an entertaining fair waste of time.
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