Look, I'm a fan. I know these movies are daft but the first two were good - the second one especially so when they leaned into the ridiculousness of it all. The third one was awful but even that was better than this.
I'm not going to go over every little thing - other reviews have done that. Let's just do the highlights:
Just an absolute car crash all round.
I'm not going to go over every little thing - other reviews have done that. Let's just do the highlights:
- Abysmal script and story with no stakes, You just don't care.
- Most of the cast have nothing to do for most of the movie.
- Statham is good but he'd never have agreed to this tripe were it not for Sly. Which is fine, but this is far worse than the stock actioners Statham was making in the early 2000s;
- The CGI is just disgracefully bad for a $100m movie.
- You've got some of the world's best movie martial artists and most of the fight scenes are abysmal.
- The female characters have no reason to be there. Like, they do even less than the random men.
- The action is very very badly staged, it's like a parody of an Expendables movie.
Just an absolute car crash all round.