The Movie Diorama With every film I watch of his, my admiration for him heightens to explosive levels. His commitment to the stunt work, the cheesy one liners, the mediocre American accent. He negates the critics and just does what he does best, being Jason Statham. Homefront is no different, but he has much better support. Having recently moved to a new town, a father and his daughter are embroiled in a feud with another family that soon escalates into a murderous plan for drug distribution. Bearing in mind this a screenplay adapted by Sylvester Stallone (who is no Shakespeare) and directed by Gary Fleder (yeah, me neither...), it's a damn enjoyable action drama. Illustrating the affection and protectiveness between father and daughter, shrouding these two strangers in a small community and portraying the lust for money and success from a crazed lunatic who is willing to shoot his own relatives and flee the scene. This isn't a Statham film where he is invincible, jumping out skyscraper windows landing on his feet with barely a scratch on him. No, he is actually human. A father just trying to move on with his life and avoid trouble. But alas, trouble always finds him, and so Statham does what Statham does best: annihilate the enemy. The violence is pretty damn edgy, where every punch, kick and gun shot feels surprisingly real. I've never seen so many head smashes into car windows in a film, however the result is strangely captivating. It's gritty, visceral and energetic action which I'm sure everyone wanted to see. Statham is well supported by Franco, Ryder and Bosworth who all play unlikable yet realistic characters. They are not completely one-dimensional, more like...one and a half dimensions? Franco needs to be an antagonist in more films, he can be rather intimidating. Granted, the script isn't exactly special and does become more absurd as the film comes to its conclusion. The excessive quick cuts also made for disorientating action, however I had a good time. I knew what I wanted, and I got it. Statham satisfaction at its finest.

Marthian80 Homefront is a simple crime / action movie with Jason Statham who plays ex-DEA agent Phil Broker (again an ex-something, it's getting old..) who tries to settle down with his nine year old daughter in a quiet town. Things don't stay quiet long for Broker after his daughter knocks out a bully at school and he get's in a fight with the bully's parents. This incident draws a lot of unwanted attention to Broker, including the local drug lord Bodine (James Franco) who wants to know why Broker taught his daughter to fight like that. Can Broker shake this attention off and keep his new quiet life or not? Since it is a Statham movie, my expectations where not high but this movie was still below average. The characters where hardly worked out as believable people, there was no chemistry between Statham and the girl who is supposed to be his daughter and the story is so simple that you already know how it's going to end after watching the first twenty minutes. James Franco didn't work for me as the main bad guy, he hardly did anything to look like a bad-ass. Winona Ryder plays his girlfriend but she was probably having a bad day or something: worst performance I have seen from her so far. There was also some weird effect where they show bits of the next scene in the current scene, to make the transition between the two scenes 'special'? It looked awful and didn't work at all. It's not the worst Statham movie but if your looking for a mindless action movie your better off watching 'Killer Eliter' or 'Blitz' instead of this one.

austinkunkle Once again Jason Statham makes his way as a protective father for his daughter from a bunch of drug dealers. I don't understand why people hated this movie. Sure the motive could have been better to be honest. I mean all kids get in fights at school all the time. Why make this regular school fight so complicating? Oh,well. I don't really care. I just love the fact that Jason Statham is kicking some butt and he's protecting his daughter. That's what I expected from this movie anyways. So I really loved it;I'm sure others liked it too. Lots of people wouldn't care about the plot,all they would want to see in this movie is Jason Statham fight a bunch of people with his hands tied behind his back. I thought Homefront was a real inspirational action/emotional movie and I would watch it a million times and never get over it

yashrajs536 I watched "Homefront" last night and liked it it was a good Statham movie and it was also a bit different from other action movie and that is the thing I liked the most.Statham was great at his place what to say about him and the girl who played the role of Statham daughter is also good and James Franco was a good addition to this movie but somewhat he was a Joker at some places.Other supporting cast were also good at their places and the direction was above average and good to watch the acting was good not great but a fun to watch.Overall a good Statham movie and also a bit different from his usual films.