When I learned about this movie, I was very intrigued that Walter Hill was attached with direct, and Stallone was to star, two different people who I believed could pull off a good action movie hbomax.com/tvsignin. After Stallone had proved he still had what it took to create an activity movie with Expendables and Expendables 2, I believed this movie could offer something fresh to the somewhat stale genre the action movie has become.

The movie has Stallone playing a hitman named Jimmy Bobo, who is given a simple job which turns sour and his partner is killed. Bobo survives an assassination attempt on him, and starts to track down the man who killed his partner. He ends up stuck with a Korean cop named Taylor Kwon who is investigating the murder which Jimmy and his partner had committed earlier. The two men track down the dirty trail for their own reasons, but one of them want to stay above the law, and another doesn't care about the law.

This soon turns into a buddy movie, with the two men trying to bounce off each other with some witty comments and jibes towards each other, but also for me there is not much chemistry between the two and it felt slightly awkward. Most of the bonding between the two occurs while they are driving in one place to a different, and it did slightly grow on me while the movie went on, but I think the mediocre acting limited its success.

Stallone played the typical form of character you'd expect from him, he's not the very best actor in the world in the slightest, but playing the silent assassin he always seems to complete well, for the reason that he doesn't have to act to much. He looks cold and calculated and fits the character well. But lets be honest, you don't watch a Stallone movie for acting, its all about the action, and for the reason that department Stallone really has it, and gives it to us in bucket loads. I came across the action very stylish, and although it was rather violent and graphic sometimes, while the special effects appear to be leaning towards in recent years, it was entertaining and great to watch, Stallone pulls it off with ease and seems to still enjoy throwing punches and firing guns. The highlight of the movie has to be the axe battle at the conclusion of the movie with Jason Momoa.

Sung Kang plays Taylor Kwon, who you may know from his stint in the Fast and Furious franchise. He's a significant actor, I like his laidback style, and think he holds his own, but for some reason I just didn't think he comes off to well as a cop. He doesn't seem to truly have the right attitude for a policeman, however it doesn't spoil the movie. He leaves the majority of the action for Stallone and instead takes the bullets. But in the action he does take part in he delivers. I think I would like to see him with much more of the action as I think he could hold his own.

Jason Momoa who plays Keegan does a significant job while the bad guy in this movie, although he's working for Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Christian Slater, he's the main man who Stallone wants revenge against, and the main driving force for Jimmy Bobo. He does a great job while the cold blooded killer, but seems a littler wooden sometimes with some of his acting. He still looks very Conan in this, he delivers on the action but is not quite there on the acting.

Christian Slater is great as ever, he's a tremendous actor, and for me personally he should of really had a little more screen time, he's very likeable as an unlikeable character, he just has something about him that's very weaselish. But it results in great on screen.

The plot of the movie itself was very quite intriguing, being predicated on a graphic novel I'd rather high expectations, while the transition to cinema is fairly often a very positive one, this was not bad but maybe it could did better. The revenge plot worked well for me personally, however the Taylor Kwon side of things was less appealing, I was always only a little confused with what was going up with him. He was constantly on the device, but from the beginning of the movie they called for minimal contact, and I believed his storyline was slightly forgotten about in favour of Jimmy Bobo's revenge plot. The combination of Sung and Stallone did grow on me while the movie went on, and the good guy, bad guy combo came over OK. It gave us glimpses' of humor and a great dose of action which led to a significant action movie, at a time when action movies are receiving somewhat of a resurgence with the release of Expendables, Arnie's The Last Stand and this outing.

Overall this was a tiny hit and miss for me. The action was great, with the stand out moment being the axe battle. The acting is what you will expect from the Stallone action movie, with some highlights from Christian Slater. This is recommended to any action movie fan, as it would have been a refreshing change to see a fresh offering from an activity legend, however if your not a Stallone fan, or a fan of action movies in general, then this movie might be disappointing.