The Couchpotatoes Cop action movie with Jason Statham. Been there, done that. I mean that you know exactly what you are going to get. Statham the super nasty good cop that can't be touched by anything and that acts like a smart ass all the time. If you like that kind of cliché then you won't get disappointed. It's always the same thing with him. The other actors were not that bad, it's just a random movie, good enough to kill time. The story itself isn't that great at all either. It's all been done before and even a lot better then this time. There are a couple of times where you can't help yourself then to say "please" out loud. I saw Blitz once and I won't watch it ever again.

alindsay-al Now there has been a lot of Jason Statham action films over the years some good and some bad but this one fits in the middle as distinctly average. This story sees Stathams character looking for a cop killer called the blitz. Now Statham is really good in this film doing his best to combine the action and humour that he is really good at and he is easily the best part of the film which is no shock. The rest of the cast is not great though, now aiden Gillen is a good actor and he does a villain well and this film is really no different with his performance being pretty memorable. Stathams detective partner and the female cop aren't very convincing and there story plots especially the female cops is completely unnecessary and a complete waste of time. We do get a nice cameo from Luke Evans but it is not enough to make up for the overall cast. The story is pretty terrible to be honest with the main story being incredibly simplistic and the reasoning behind everything was not really explained. Also it spent way too much on the secondary story and I hated it. The script is okay with most of Stathams lines being funny and gillans being creepy but the rest was very simplistic and nothing really to it. The style is a bit of a mixed bag with the backgrounds being exactly the same as a lot of films and it does nothing new. But I do give this film credit for the fact that it was willing to show more violent action. Overall this is just an average film and unless you enjoy Statham films you can miss it.

messages-lc Let's get one thing straight; Jason Statham is the bad guy in this movie.Statham is a hybrid good-guy/bad-guy, but he isn't your likable criminal, a la Porter in Payback; he's a bad cop - a really bad one. He steals from merchants, physically attacks suspects and witnesses while causing SERIOUS bodily harm, barges into private residences without warrants to search and stare-down the occupants, and intimidates the good-guys in internal affairs who actually try to protect the people. Statham's character is exactly the kind of thug psychologists talk about when they say cops and gangsters often share the same psychological profile. He's the worst type of criminal - the kind that exploits a position of power and authority to abuse the helpless - and this movie expects the viewer to empathize with him: impossible.Sure, there's a guy out killing cops that the movie tries to build up as its villain, but this killer was CREATED by Statham's police brutality and the system's unwillingness to bring him to justice. The killer got the idea to kill cops after being beaten half to death in a bar by Statham's character - for a misdemeanor. Statham and other officers literally play the tape back at the station to laugh at Statham's egregious physical abuse of a civilian. If cops are allowed to act like thugs (aka, Jason Statham's character), the murderer starts to look somewhat like a misguided victim of circumstance, or even an anti-hero. He cannot get justice through the legal channels, so, rather than live in fear of future attacks from Statham's character, he takes matters into his own hands.Aiden Gillen's villain/victim is a character with a complex psychological background, a cause that is just in principle (though horribly unjust in execution), and with circumstances that are interesting enough to warrant a camera on his activities. The murderer deserves to be the main character, and he would be if this were a decent movie. Instead, the film remains an amalgam of cop and action movie, with a subtext of condoning extreme police misconduct.Statham's supporting cast acts a little predictably and wooden, and are difficult to empathize with, one-dimensional, and unlikable. This has much more to do with the writing than the actors themselves, but it is definitely a major impediment to the movie's development. One fellow officer berates a man on her first date for saying he'll call, but not telling her EXACTLY when (she accuses him of intentionally keeping her waiting). Another officer unnecessarily chews-out this same beau for dropping her off at home, but not walking her to the door, even as the beau shows up to make sure she's all right. Other scenes add nothing to the movie but filler. A few scenes are entirely unbelievable, such as when a man has a 2-minute death scuffle with an assailant in his apartment, then is beaten to death with a hammer, and none of his neighbors hears. Still, production quality, Jason Statham's action sequences, and the performance of Aiden Gillen bring this stinker up to a 4/10.

bluejay52 Blitz is like an extended television show that drags on too long, fails to make you care much about the characters, and features an excess of gore and violence in hopes its audience will overlook a badly flawed plot.*****Spoiler Alert*****If you care about story lines, for example, you'll be bothered by the matter of fifty thousand pounds that this screenplay inexplicably botches to the point of utter absurdity, shattering any pretense of a rational and logical story. The perpetrator stays at a hotel following his murder of an informant and theft of the victim's thick, open manila envelope stuffed with the cash. When police on a tip raid this malefactor's room, he flees out the window and leads Jason Statham on an extended foot chase. He's wearing light clothing and obviously does not have this bulky envelope on him when he's finally cornered and arrested in a railroad yard. Why, one wonders, would he leave the cash behind?Next thing you know, he's released for lack of evidence following police interrogation and is handed this same envelope along with his personal effects as he laves the station. How did the police get it since he didn't have it on him (did they find it in his abandoned hotel room?), and why didn't they discover the money since it was open? And since they could not have failed to see the cash, why didn't they put together that it was the same fifty thousand pounds an informant had just been killed for, directly linking the man they were setting free with a brutal murder? You get the picture.Yet another example of unforgivably sloppy screen writing is when the murderer calls and boasts to a newspaper reporter, who records him. When police are tipped to this fact, for some reason not one of them thinks to get the recording from the reporter to analyze the voice and compare it to that of their prime suspect. It doesn't reflect well on London's finest. Thank heavens no police force would ever be this abysmally stupid in the real world. In short, unless you feel that violence and clichés trump a ridiculous plot and insipid character development, you will probably find Blitz a gross insult to your intelligence.