HOMEFRONT updated

(2013) 100 Minutes, Rated R

Mike's Review:  Jason Statham can pretty much play any movie where the good guy is forced to fight as a means to protect something or someone.  Granted almost all of his movies are the same,  they are still fun to watch on the big screen.  The only weird thing about this movie was seeing Jason Statham with long hair.

Best Scene: Any scene where Jason Statham is fighting.

Mike's Rating: Worth the price of the ticket and DVD worthy.

Bean's Review:  Another reliable Jason Statham movie in that you expect him to be the good guy who defeats evil and saves the day.  In this movie, Statham’s character is defending his home and child from stereotypical bully redneck scum.  He accomplishes this in a showcase of his physical prowess and snappy comebacks.

This is a movie to enjoy after a long stressful day at work.

Best Scene: When the daughter whacks the school bully after asking him nicely – “twice”

Bean's Rating:  Full ticket, matinee or DVD – a movie that is enjoyable to watch more than once.

A.C.’s Review:   HOMEFRONT is the latest Jason Statham picture to hit the theaters and a worthy effort.

In the movie he plays a retired DEA agent who must stand tall against a variety of bad guys that range from meth heads, to rednecks to a biker gang that seems borrowed right out of Sons of Anarchy all the while protecting his young daughter.

If you loved 1980’s action movies this is a throwback to that earlier era…while not as over the top as some (Commando comes to mind) this could easily have been made back then. There is the expected hand to hand combat when you have Statham and the brutality is not toned down to get a PG-13 rating to get the teen crowd in the theater.   Best of all the stunts look like they were all practical and not computer generated.   In fact I would lay money down that the huge explosion at the end is real and not the usually phony CGI explosions and fire that are easily detected in today’s movies. In short there is nothing like the real thing.

Best Scene: James Franco who plays a much better villain here as Gator Bodine redeems himself after the horrible role he played as the bad guy in Springbreak. The look on his face is priceless as he watched his entire drug operation going up in flames thanks to one of Statham’s booby traps. That stunned look was some great acting.

A.C.'s Rating: Worth full price admission.


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