113mn for this nonsense is way too long. Shot in 'Scope format, it gives on very few occasions some beautiful shots. Very picturesque indeed. That's the main asset of the movie.
Apart from this, oh, the void. The main lead can be seen as pretty, but he just can't act. That's painful to see him trying to do so and downright embarrassing. I had never heard of him and I guess his acting career will be over soon.
For the rest of the cast as well, the director can't seem to make them act properly.
Among this story of two bodyguards trying to find the daughter of a billionaire, you'd expect a bit much. But Jo, it has obviously been shot on a shoestring. And it looks like it.
You have two goons getting punched over and over again the whole movie, an over-acting Chinese daddy trying to get ahold of some lithium, and this sex-starved Ava apparently manipulating everybody. They just appear lost in here.
Passed the first 10mn, you could feel they were trying to do something plausible - but then it all goes down the drain. It's sheer nonsense. The screenplay is going nowhere, I gather they lost the script along the process.
The fights scenes are ok, though. I'll give them credit for that. But alas, they threw them trying to awake me. Dialogues were clunky as hell, to make things worse.
The gay thing is useless - and, yes, I was curious about that. But really? Give us a Scott Adkins B-level of action wit a gay twist and yeah, we'll finally get a true gay action movie. With this one, it's barely an overlong drama with 3 fight scenes.
This could have gone with easily 30mn less - and test still very bad.
I give it a 3 as it's still nicely shot at some point. Doesn't deserve a 1, I've seen far worse - and those who put a tenant have been pretty high. Or from the company who dumped this?
