Review of Bullet to the Head (2012) by Thomas W — 25 Jun 2013
Bullet to the Head might be a film from 2013 starring Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Rambo) but it still feels like a Stallone action flick from his heyday years of the later 1980s. It is both loud and violent and the film is propelled forward by action and stunts that piece together parts of a narrative story.
Stallone stars as New Orleans hitman James Bobo who reluctantly pairs up with a DC detective (Sung Kang - Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6) who has arrived in the city to investigate the murder of a (unknown to him) corrupt cop who had actually been killed by Bobo and his partner.
Together they are actually working to track down the people responsible for the death of Bobo's partner (John Seda - Selena, Bad Boys II) who was killed in retaliation for the first killing. Yes .
.. there are some double-crossings and kept secrets in the first half of the film. Jason Momoa ("Game of Thrones") and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ("Lost") play a couple of the very bad seeds who take on the insanely buff/fit Stallone (he's nearly 70!) and Kwon.
It is a Stallone film so it is too bad for the baddies. Stallone is given a few good lines of dialogue and the film does have quite a bit of extreme action. Bullet to the Head -- even the title -- is actually (kind-of) trashy and the film shamelessly glorifies all-out action and brutal violence at times.
It is an ode to the glory years of its star ... but unfortunately is little else.
This review of Bullet to the Head (2012) was written by Thomas W on 25 Jun 2013.
Bullet to the Head has generally received mixed reviews.
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