Director: Walter Hill Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Momoa, Christian Slater, Sarah Shahi, Sung Kang, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Rating: Rated R for strong violence, bloody images, language, some nudity and brief drug use
After watching their respective partners die, a New Orleans hitman and a Washington D.C. detective form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
"Bullet to the Head", in a year so far that has seen action stars such as Arnold and Jason Statham bring out lackluster films in "The Last Stand" and "Parker", people including me were wondering if its time for these action stars of the past to hang it up for a new generation of stars to make their mark in the genre. The reason I had a little bit more expectations in "Bullet to the Head" was that for one thing in the trailer for this movie Sylvester Stallone looked like he still had what it took to be an action star while someone like Arnold is definitely showing his age. The film just looked like an overall fun time like "The Expendables 2" which I definitely enjoyed. It was just a silly action film that gave a good throwback to the films of the 70's and 80's. The thing about this movie was that while this movie definitely had some fun aspects to it ultimately this felt like it was made just to show Sylvester Stallone being a bada** and nothing else and to a point it fails on that front. Jumping right into the movie the plot is the ultimate thing that drags this movie out. With action films like this that are just throwing back the 80's you're not suppose to take the plot so seriously but while watching this film its hard not to feel like there is really nothing going on in the film. The set-up of the film bring Sylvester Stallone and Sung Kang together was interesting enough that I was able to get into it, but the further the film went along and the revelation of what the whole thing is about just came and left as soon as it was revealed. It felt that the director and writer of this film really didn't care about the main plot and just through it together for a motivation for the villain. The dialouge of the film was pretty bland to just a bunch of cheesy one liners and villains making big threats repeatedly to each other. The film features a lot of side characters from Sylvester Stallone's daughter to the police department investigating the crime and all of the film felt one dimensional. Anytime any of these characters did anything it was boring and it took you out of the film. If those characters would have been fleshed out more it would have been a lot easier to care when they are in any predicament. The action in this film is what most people actually care about and I can say while the action wasn't spectacular they were some pretty good choreographed fight scenes featuring Sylvester Stallone. I feel they didn't let Sylvester Stallone goes as far as he could have went with his fight scenes, because he definitely still has it over a lot of the action stars his age. If you want to watch this film just for the action alone I honestly feel as good as some of them are, for a film made specifically for the fight scenes it was a little bit of a let down. The acting of this film is a place the film falters. I don't know really how to explain it but Sylvester Stallone has a very terrible smoker voice and everytime he speaks I got actually really annyoed which is weird because in "The Expendables 2" last year his voice sounded fine. He did a good job with his action though he had some good one liners and played up his role really well. The main big guy that Sylvester Stallone is going up against was pretty good too played by Jason Moma. He was a big guy and had a good fight scene with Sylvester Stallone at the end. Other then them two the rest of the cast really had nothing to do and were just there to feel the necessary parts of the plot. Sylverster Stallone's partner in the film played by Sung Kang was good when he was with Sylvester Stallone, they had a good chemistry as buddy cops but when Sung Kang was on his own there was nothing really interesting to him. Overall if you know what you're going into with "Bullet to the Head" you'll be fine. Is it the best genre offering you could ask for? No, I've seen better action throwback films then this, but I could say this film could serve as a guys night rental but I couldn't justifying seeing this at the theater. With good action I just wish this film could had served up a more fleshed out plot and more interesting charcters.
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