7/9/2023 0 Comments Home the movie 2013![]() ![]() Statham’s discomfort at having to extend the olive branch when he’d rather jam it in the other guy’s windpipe is the film's most suspenseful stunt.įleder also draws a moving and believable father-daughter relationship from the story’s widower-dad cliche. It’s the psychology that counts: We’ve all been there, tested and prodded constantly by some unreasonable, relentless fool who won’t recognize sincere attempts at peacemaking. When Statham puts the poor guy down on the blacktop, a whole gang of greasy losers come looking for trouble.įleder, who is a pretty standard button-masher as an action director, actually shows infectious relish and nuance in depicting Statham’s slow return to his violent ways. When Maddy takes down a schoolyard bully, his mother ( Kate Bosworth), tweaking on meth, pushes her weakling husband (Marcus Hester) to seek revenge. We wait patiently for the local redneck meth-heads to start messing with him, as promised in the movie's trailer. ![]() When the smoke clears, Phil Broker (Statham) is retired, sick of the narc's double-life, and off to a tiny Louisiana town to start fresh with his tween daughter Maddy ( Izabela Vidovic).
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