Mathijs Kees Nice action-packed movie, but it can't match the prequel. The storyline is interesting, but not very credible. Where its predessor was well-thought, this one feels like its made in a hurry. For the rest its like an average action movie.

iannish Depiction of Penang where John stay looks like a run down shack, which does not exist. Penang streets depicted in the movie looks like a back alley of new York, dirty, trashy and disgusting. Penang is nothing close to that. Please do not misrepresent my island just so to fit in a profile to suit your western mindset. This is a disgusting movie.

Ian (Flash Review)Who cares what the story is about; this is a shoot 'em up brainless flic. The reason why Statham busts out his skills is the most vanilla you can imagine. Former gun for hire retires and is forced back to do one last series of jobs to save this woman he only just met but just has to rescue. Who cares when you watch him gun down so many men that is becomes obscenely comical. This blood bath earns a 6/10 because they somehow, in this watered-down genre, find slightly new ways to kill people. Got to credit the creativity. Haha. Some actually made me audibly grunt with amusement like a teenage kid. The three men he is hired to kill are actually fairly amusing, over the top yet spectacular. T. L. Jones does not need to be in this. Is he really hurting for money? Jessica Alba does not act very convincingly and their romance is just barely passable. If you want to suspend some disbelief and go on an amusingly bloody ride this works.

Maiya Thapar I don't know if it was down to a timing limit or whether the fast pace needed to be there throughout the film, but I have to agree with those who say its a bit unbelievable from a plot standpoint. I feel like the whole establishing of a relationship between Statham's character (Bishop) and Alba's (Gina) happens too quickly. They go from having a mutual problem to sleeping together to boy friend and girlfriend within minutes. If this was down to a timing restriction, then I do believe that it was dealt with fairly well and in an acceptable way. I do, however, wish that the relationship could have had more time in the beginning.From an action standpoint I think Statham excelled at fulfilling his wish to make it seem as if Bishop was working with his environment. Not once did I believe that someone of his skill set wouldn't be able to get out of the position he was in. The action aspect of the movie provides a lot of it, and it does bring one to the edge of their seat, even if there are no mishaps. So perhaps maybe a few should have been included, so that an audience member is left with a firm belief that nothing can go wrong. A little mishap would have increased the levels of suspense, like perhaps when vacuuming to the bottom of the pool Bishop slips up and one handle doesn't attach properly. Ultimately I enjoyed this movie and it provided a fairly decent story.