Monday 19 April 2021

Bullet to the Head - A nice little compendium piece to the Expendables

Bullet to the Head is basically a typical Stallone/Schwarzenegger film which would probably be more at home in the eighties or early nineties. Like Arnie's `The Last Stand' it shows off what Stallone does best, i.e. grunt, look mean and generally kill people.

This time he's a hitman whose partner gets killed by... well, it doesn't matter. What does is that he makes sure the bodies start piling up.

It's an action film. Nothing more, nothing less. There are no great surprises here and, if you know Stallone's body of work, you won't really expect much more.

If you're looking for deep and meaningful character development with twists and turns and plenty of originality, move alone! If, however, you just want to see Stallone bust heads for an hour and a half, then put your brain on hold and enjoy Bullet to the Head (and quite possibly The Last Stand, as the two films seem to go hand in hand as two of a - highly entertaining, if rather dumb - kind).

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that

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