Hostile Takeover

Honestly, this felt like a waste of time. Not terrible enough to be entertaining in a "so bad it's good" way, but not good in any area either. It just sits in that boring middle ground. All the characters are one-dimensional, like they walked straight out of a generic superhero cartoon, and the plot is about as deep as a puddle.

The story? A guy is suspected of betraying his master... for no real reason. There's nothing clever or layered about it - just a lazy setup that never goes anywhere interesting. The tone tries to mix humor with action, but the jokes never land, and any attempts to develop the main character fall completely flat.

Visually, it's as generic as any low-effort action movie. The fight scenes mostly involve people who clearly don't know how to fight - except for Michael Jai White, who actually can, but for some reason tones himself down to match the rest of the cast. The blood effects are laughably bad, and the cinematography is forgettable.

The music? Fine. Just background filler - nothing memorable. My "favorite" scene (if I had to pick one) was the fight in his ex-apartment, but even that was painfully mediocre. The worst part was simply the time I wasted watching it.

Final verdict: I'd honestly recommend watching paint dry instead - at least then you won't be disappointed.

Nice. Hollywood made a funny action movie for once. This was a decent movie for a change. Great action, actually made me laugh. Hopefully they will make a sequel to this. I cant think of the black actors name as I type this, but he is fun to watch. This movie just needed a few hot chicks and some nudity and it wouldve been a ten.

Sure it isn't a big Hollywood movie, but then that's exactly why it's actually funny, with far, FAR better crafted fight choreography. There are a couple questionable spots, but since the action coming out of Hollywood is generally blends together into one long groan, they're pretty easy to get over.

It seems like there's an 80's action movie homage influencing the movie. The constant joking is a little over the top, but oh well, still funny.

I've always been a Michael Jai White fan since Spawn and Universal Soldier 2. He's actually a talented and humble (relatively) martial artist a who never fails to produce a good performance. His comedic timing apparently isn't bad either.

I was actually very disheartened when it looked like Mikey was going the way of Steven Seagal, getting to fat to lift his legs and kick properly, but then I realized it was entirely because he was wearing modern style tapered super tight jeans. No one can kick in those. He must have known and was doing it to illustrate how stupid and dangerous it is to wear jeans like that. A+

The plot was extravagant but nice , the fight choreography was good , the script was ok , I can only relate to the only take on the movie which everybody feels but don't know how to explain . It's "cinematography" .

For cinematography they choose action camera through out the movie which is constantly zoomed in on characters faces and blurring everything else around them .

It is quite strange to adopt this trend in a movie like that partly because it didn't have a small budget , they did shoot at multiple exotic locations so they didn't need to blur the entire movie , on the other hand the cast in general appeared overaged as you could count every head line and every wrinkle and pore on all their faces (I hope this doesn't ruin Aimee Stolte's career since she put up some good fight scenes to be sent off to grandmas category by producers because of this) , not only that , much of the fight scenes you can only see elbows and arms around necks and lose track of what's happening easily .

I really hope for a sequel but just film it right this time , the characters of the plot are all worthy of looking into , most had strong appearance but hardly any character development which I hope could be taken care of in a sequel .

It's a bit sad that, apart from a few independent productions, film studios have so little to offer in terms of plot.

After about 10 minutes, I felt like I was watching the 1997 classic thriller "The Game" with Michael Douglas, reworked into a strange, grotesque compilation of fight scenes, in which every act is highly mannered. The longer I watched, the more bored I became... Yes, the film is a kind of middle-of-the-road entertainment, but it's neither too funny nor too serious; it's probably the least balanced film of its kind I've seen in recent years. Good for a get-together with a beer and the TV humming in the background.

It's a bit like the mush that generative AI would produce.