jgarymatthews Editing was so bad it made me physically Ill. Left after an hour.

picksuza The whole premise of the movie is based upon getting a double agent to a plane to come to America. Very action-packed and bloody/gory With lots of bone crunching involved. If you love those types of movies you will enjoy this movie. I was fine with it up until the end. Not something I would go watch again but definitely not something that was crap. My issue however comes because I like things to make sense logically. So it was at the end that Threw me off. It took me the drive home to figure out what set me off. Here's where the spoiler comes in: The double agent in fact turns into a triple agent for Russia. In essence killing everybody involved. I can live with this the only issue I have is that at the beginning of the movie that when they initially made that first bust it was because of the information this supposed double agent gave one of their agents. The feeling I got from the show was that because the secret agency went in and killed a bunch of Russians one of them being a rich ladies kid, the rich lady then hired this double agent to go in and kill the American agency. It still doesn't make sense because this double agent was the one that told them where to go to kill the Russians. Which means the kid shouldn't have died because the cop Was not hired until after the kid was killed.No way did the rich Russian woman have it all planned out and said hey you should go and kill my son. So maybe it's possible to think of some alternative reasons. They could be... A mark Wahlberg's character had a psychotic break down and either he went rogue or decided to kill everybody. Or the second situation is that another government hired the Triple agent to create all this chaos so that they could go in and kill this American agency. Regardless that's where they lost me.

cmayerle-41064 That may be a low bar since Mission Impossible is probably the second best action flick that year. I tend to like Peter Berg movies and this is his best by far. The "shaky camera" a lot of people complain about has been a staple in Hollywood now for 2 decades and is no worse than the early Jason Bourne films. The plot is somewhat far-fetched (no more so than MI) and the action sequences don't go over-the-top. In fact the martial arts scenes are great. For some reason, Berg decided not to really use Rousey in the hand-to-hand fights.The characters are rough and sarcastic, kind of like the military in real life. All of the acting was good. Rousey especially impressed me, not that she was challenged to do some light romcom. But as some 90's martial artists (think Norris, Van Damme, Segal) proved, merely kicking and punching your way through a movie doesn't qualify as acting.So, who is this movie for? Do you like Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg? Are you willing to overlook some far fetched plot elements for some realistic action? And like the other movies I compared it to, this is the first installment on what they hope to make a franchise from.

mattframe I went into this film having zero idea of what it was about. I STILL have zero idea.This experience was akin to being in the throes of a malaria induced fever psychosis and deciding to watch the Bourne Supremacy at 125% speed.This movie was pure noise.Halfway thru I literally wanted to turn a loaded weapon unto myself to put me out of my misery.Now, let me be clear. The misery wasn't sadness/pain related. It was pure, unparalleled confusion.I wanted my brain to cease functioning so I could stop trying to make sense of this film.My advice: don't watch it. However, if you absolutely need to have the experience then I recommend banging your noggin against the nearest concrete partition. That way you can inexpensively create the same sensory experience as viewing this movie.I would give it two thumbs down but my thumbs are busy gouging into my eyeballs out at present.Say hi to your own mother.