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Mel Gibson

Kevin Hernandez

Daniel Giménez Cacho

Peter Stormare

Jesús Ochoa

Roberto Sosa

Dolores Heredia

Mario Zaragoza

Peter Gerety

Bob Gunton

Gerardo Taracena

Dean Norris

Tenoch Huerta Mejía

Fernando Becerril

Scott Cohen

Zak Knutson

Tom Schanley

Jace Jeanes

Clayton J. Barber

Patrick Bauchau

Denise Gossett

Regina Orozco

Stephanie Lemelin

Suzanne Cryer

J.J. Perry

Gustavo Sánchez Parra

Manuel Domínguez

Dagoberto Gama

Guillermo Ríos

Iñaki Goci

Paloma Arredondo

Ángeles Cruz

Mayra Sérbulo

Blue Demon Jr.

Stacy Perskie

Alejandro Reza

Bernardo Trujillo

Roberto Revilla

Vicki Christianson

Victoria Thomas

Benoît Debie

Bruce Davey

Joe Rivera

Adrian Grünberg

Antonio Pinto

Missy Lisenby

Anna Terrazas

Howard Paar

Edna Herrera

Steven Rosenblum

Len Blavatnik

Francisco Blanc

D. Chris Smith

Greg Baldi

Mark Shultz

Javier Clave

Jeffrey C. Price

Armando Lopez

Bill Abbott

Eniac Martínez Ulloa

Carlos Cosio

Colin Thurston

Balo Bucio

Scott G.G. Haller

Jay Aroesty

Karri Mayo

Cynthia E. Thornton

Sean McCormack

Enrique Lara

Erin Oakley

Javier Delgado

Julieta Álvarez

Carlos Marroquín

Jordi Sendra Morales

Nayeli Rosas

Matías Salgado

Juan Carlos Olalde

Per Gunnar Jonsson

I have always liked Mel Gibson and I really do not care how drunk or politically incorrect he might be. I still like to see him in movies and this is a surprisingly good movie. The movie had a proper theatrical premier in most countries except USA where it went straight to VOD which I find a bit surprising. It is a lot better movie than much of the stuff that are shown in theaters. I suspect the politically correct hypocrites had something to do with that.

Personally, I found this movie surprisingly good. Mel Gibson fit the role very well and made a quite good performance. The settings with the bizarre prison which looked like a cross between Alcatraz and Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen was quite cool. It was the kind of setting that I would not have been surprised to find in a Tarantino-movie. I also liked the cynical and somewhat ironical voice-over by Gibson.

The story was okay. Perhaps not the most believable one but good enough for this kind of action movie. Speaking of action, there were indeed some decent action in the movie but it is not like the movie is overloaded with it. It is nicely spread out and once the action starts it is pretty good. It is also true that some scenes are a wee bit gruesome but I am not sure that I agree with the R-rating. Most of the time that rating felt a bit over the top. Still, I rather have a R-rated movie with cuts than a PG-13 with lots of silly cuts in it.

There were some silly bits of course, like how easy Mel could evade the prison and make a “business-trip” to the states when he finally felt like it and the entire business of performing transplantation surgery in a filthy prison. Mel might have found that “put it back” statement funny when he wrote it but it came out rather silly to me.

Bottom line is that this was a quite enjoyable movie. A perfect after-work movie when you feel like parking your brain somewhere in the garage with your car and just sit down and watch something requiring a minimum of concentration.

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