The only way to enjoy this flick - suspend all belief and take it for what it is...

I watched it last night and enjoyed it well enough. It's not a great film or a new action classic, but it's a solid B-tier actioner and should do a pretty good job of scratching the itch if that's what you're looking for.

The film was a little less serious and a little more jokey than I expected, and I also didn't think it felt like a $200 million movie, and I'm also not sure it had even a single original idea, but the characters and performances, the visual style, and the quality of the action were enough that I found it to be an enjoyable movie on a Saturday night.

I tried that and it didn't work. This movie is just bad, even if you suspend belief and try to take it for what it is. Bad movie is bad.

The problem is that it’s impossible to engage in the story because every component of the script is either rushed or glossed over that you don’t really care when the action is happening.

They jump around from year to year, city to city, so nonchalant might I add, that it’s just one big jumbled mess. It’s like they watched the movie John Wick and said “hey is Ryan Gosling available? Okay let’s just throw him into a bunch of generic subplots that we’ve seen before in other films, and hopefully the action just makes up for it.

You need to invest in the story you’re trying to tell or it just falls apart 99.9% of the time. “Shoot ‘em Up” with Clive Owen would better fit the “just turn your brain off” argument but this movie isn’t even half as good and just comes across as very lazy considering the budget they had and all the talent involved.

Very very disappointing indeed!

Yeah, I understood exactly what kind of movie it was and enjoyed it a lot. Gosling has that knack for being able to be funny without the annoying smarminess of that OTHER Canadian Ryan.