Action Hero MoviesThis movie gets off to a subtly intriguing start, managing to build a bit of an atmosphere quite well.
Although the first half of the movie is quite creative, the second half doesn’t really develop the plot any further — it’s basically a set of related scenes, in 1 building, the whole way through after the first half hour. The action is frequent but it’s also quite gritty, so all in all I have to rate it Bang Average and if anything that’s a slight over-rating due to the genre being very good even if the plot is gravely lacking.
Although a bit aged, Antonio Banderas pulled off a few of his old Desperado type moves. Ben Kingsley was a convincing baddie – no doubt a psychopath in real life – with vibes of Anton LeVey the satanist. And Cung Le didn’t get much screen time but what he did was to a high standard even by his own standards.