Review of Homefront (2013) by Thomas W — 04 Mar 2014

Jason Statham makes two different types of B-movies -- good ones or bad ones. No matter what he tries to do, the films always come across with a B-movie feel which is odd as I actually really like Mr. Statham.

Homefront -- whose screenplay was written by Sylvester Stallone -- is one of his lesser films as it feels schlocky and comes across as a rather generic and stereotypical violent action flick. Statham (The Transporter) stars as ex-DEA agent who moves to a small town that has a drug problem.

James Franco (Spring Breakers) plays the lowlife dealer and Winona Ryder (Reality Bites) plays his slightly less dangerous girlfriend. In a stretch of a role, Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns) plays a white-trash townie with a grudge against Statham (her bully son is schooled by Statham's daughter).

The film plays out just as one could imagine. The talent on screen here is better than most Statham films but they are all let-down by the rather sad script which generates little to care about. Statham -- and everyone else involved -- has had better films .

.. watch any of those instead.