Kind of like the movie?

“Can you really say that the mexican standoff did absolutely nothing for you?”

Have you ever seen Hard Boiled or The Killer? Heck, even Face-Off? The Mexican stand-off here is poor parody of the real deal.

Trust me, I’m pretty forgiving when it comes to action flicks. They are my guilty pleasure of choice. The action in this one is decent, but its surrounded by stupidity. The first Die Hard is one of the great action flicks, and the others are quite serviceable. This one is pretty pictures surrounded by stupidity.

But hey, I consider The Rundown to be in my top ten, so what do I know?

That’s what I thought.

The movie does exactly what it is supposed to do – entertain. No one watched this movie expecting depth of characters or even believable relationships. For an action movie it did just enough suspension of disbelief to allow us to enjoy the action.

Can you really say that the mexican standoff did absolutely nothing for you? Come on, admit it, it was fun! Having these guys look at each other and decide to go the informal route is definitely a good moment. Professional courtesy among the assasins.

Roger Ebert said it best “This movie is on the threshold between a game and art. It’s on the wrong side of it, but give it credit for trying.”

Frankly, I think it was better than any of the movies in the Die Hard series.

I think the reason videogame movies always suck is because a film can’t possibly add anything to a videogame–especially now that videogames are all 50+ hours long, and in HD and surround sound and whatnot. Hollywood understands how to milk a book phenomenon for all it’s worth, but they haven’t yet figured out how to respond to new media.

That and they probably just hold gamers in complete contempt and assume they’ll swallow whatever crap they throw at them. Which might actually be the case.