This movie makes no bones about what it's going to be and that's an action movie with the theme of family clearly woven throughout it. The movie is way better for having this theme to fall back on, no matter how over the top the action gets because that theme really grounds the characters and story line in a way most action movies seem to just want to rely on the action only to carry everything in the movie. Don't get me wrong though the action scenes in this movie are completely insane, but my thoughts on action movies are if you're going to do action scenes go all the way. Don't just go over the top but go completely insane, over the top, over the top and don't apologize for it but revel in the ludicrous, breaking all laws of physics action in the movie. This movie does do this in spades and doesn't apologize for anything. In the words of Tropic Thunder this movie goes full action and goes all the way.
Despite all the action in this movie, the theme of family is what grounds everything. This theme of family is what ultimately makes this movie work, in my opinion. It's hard to believe but this movie is basically a family movie: there's no sex and very little language and by doing this the movie supports that theme of family. It wasn't a bad night of watching a movie. Not saying this movie is the greatest movie of all time but I had a good time watching it and was entertained for the duration of the movie.
One of the things I did find funny in the movie was that after the big action scene involving a tank, a highway, and cars, I found myself wondering how they were going to top this because there was a little over a half an hour left. Then I found out how they topped it: a plane, an airstrip, and lots of cars. Like I said before if you're going to go action, go action all way and completely insane.
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