It all sounds so awesome. A movie titled "Bad Ass", starring Danny
Trejo in the lead role of a movie involving a revenge plot. But let me
tell you that this movie only sounds good and awesome on paper. The
movie, to be very honest, is not just bad, it's REALLY bad.
I always thought that it would be great to see Danny Trejo playing the
lead role in movies more often. I thought that his charisma would be
more than enough to carry a movie but there is a very simple reason as
to why he rarely plays a big role in a movie; he just can't act very
well! It bring the movie down and the presence of some great other
actors can't even help all that much. Charles S. Dutton and Ron Perlman
are present in this movie but their roles are quite limited and they
play some very interchangeable parts.
But biggest problem of the movie remains that it has a very bad and
even really ridicules story. Yes, even for a revenge-flick! I don't
know if I would even call this a revenge flick, since the whole revenge
element really doesn't seem to play a that big role in the story.
Especially not when the story keeps on developing, as it progresses.
The movie becomes something totally different and starts to feature
some type of nonsensical criminal plot, involving local politics, which
all felt really out of place for this movie. Suddenly simply seeking
revenge doesn't seem to be the main aim for the movie anymore. So if
you expect this movie to feature Danny Trejo as some sort of vigilante,
kicking some thugs and street punks' butts, you are wrong! He
occasionally still fights people but it all seems to be so incredibly
random and completely irrelevant to the story.
And talking about out of place and irrelevant; the movie features some
awfully misplaced and lame comedy in it. It's as if the film-makers
were afraid that people would take them too seriously with this movie
but let me tell you, this movie would had been far better of if it
simply was a very straight-forward revenge flick, without any
distractions in it.
But what else could you have expected from the director of "Saving
Ryan's Privates", "The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall
and Felt Superbad About It" and "Breaking Wind". Craig Moss hasn't made
a serious movie in his life yet and he clearly wasn't planning to start
on it with this movie.
A disappointingly bad, lame and poorly put together movie, entirely
build around the fact that Danny Trejo is a 'bad ass' but unfortunately
the movie really doesn't know what to do with this.
3/10
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