A disreputable underground adventure seeker has not been touched by the law yet. This time he needs to gain access to an underground Russian crime ring if he wants to avoid prison.
The director piles on one expensive but impersonal action scene after another.
Big Picture Big Sound
July 14, 2007
As an action director, Mr. Cohen is competent, but this film -- which is pretty much as non-stop as an action movie can get -- needed a director with a little more finesse.
Not since the days when Joel Silver ruled Hollywood and musclebound subliterates vied for supremacy on the big screen has the industry spawned a phenomenon as garish and confounding as Vin Diesel.
Common Sense Media
December 29, 2010
Vin Diesel, every teen's fantasy action hero.
Time Out
June 24, 2006
If Dubya and Dick Cheney had made their very own post-9/11 patriotic propaganda movie for the teens they need as globalisation fodder, then this would be it.
