“I’m getting too old for this,” Liam Neeson groans in Marlowe. The audience will agree on this reboot of Raymond Chandler's famous detective.
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Part Titanic styled doomed romance, part Gladiator styled revenge flick, and part late 90s volcano disaster film, Paul W.S. Anderson’s liberally not-ripped-from-the-history-books take on the destruction of the Italian city of Pompeii in 72 A.D. is clichéd to the hilt and unabashedly cornball, but you can’t say it isn’t hitting all of the high notes perfectly.
A satisfying bit of action movie junk food more evocative of 90s action films than those from the 80s, Bullet to the Head is more notable as a return to form for action director Walter Hill than as another stepping stone along Sylvester Stallone's comeback trail.