I have a giant soft spot for Sylvester Stallone. For some reason I just enjoy him, even if the film he is in is complete garbage (and let's face it, that is a lot of movies). "Bullet in the Head" is far from the worst film I have seen him in, but it is quite a distance from his best. His film "The Expendables" seems to have opened up this old man action genre in which over-the-hill stars try to prove that they are still capable of kicking ass, while making jokes about the whole situation. This is a pretty predictable, straight-forward action flick. You know, the kind that when you meet certain supporting characters, you can guess their entire arc before they show it. The acting is fair to poor, and the writing is funny at times, but otherwise very stale. The one thing that actually impressed was Lloyd Ahern II's cinematography, and the lack of music during some of the action sequences made the violence a bit more jarring. If you watch the trailer, and make up your mind about the film, you will get exactly what you think you are going to get.
Grade: C-
Easter Egg: No
3D: N/A
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Sarah Shahi
Director: Walter Hill
Writer(s): Alessandro Camon - Graphic Novel: Alexis Nolent
RT: 91 min
Rating: R for strong violence, bloody images, language, some nudity and brief drug use.
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