Crime Patrol
Film: Sabotage
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Terence Howard
Directed by: David Ayer
Duration: 1 hr 48 mins
Rating: * * 1 / 2
While
both are thrillers, this Schwarzenegger starrer has nothing to do with the
Hitchcock film of 1936 which was based on the Joseph Conrad novel. Directed by
David Ayer Sabotage turns out to be
one of those average action thrillers with a premise that had the potential to
become a gripping film. Instead, the pedestrian screenplay and the
not-so-inspiring direction makes it a passable flick.
Schwarzenegger plays John ‘Breacher’ the leader of an elite
Drug Enforcement Agency task force who is carrying some emotional baggage from
the past. He along with his other team members are able and ruthless
professionals who are investigated after $10 million dollars go missing after a
raid. One of his colleagues gets killed by a ramming train and that starts the
chain of deaths among those who were involved in the raid.
Sam Worthington (of Avatar fame) is James ‘Monster’ Murray,
a tonsured angry young man who is married to Lizzy (Mireille Enos), both are
close friends of the leader of the pack. One by one, they start getting killed
in the goriest fashion and when the ‘suspense’ is revealed, it doesn’t come as
a big surprise.
The way some of the scenes are shot, especially the handheld
ones, there is an attempt in vain to make it look intense when actually it is
not. At times, you get the sense the film makers were trying to be too clever,
like the shot where the camera is rigged on the gun.
There is plenty of violence to boot and it is not as if the
script demands it. Some of the action scenes in the finale are well executed
but pray what is our censor board upto? I’ve never seen a film that has an A
certificate and yet so many swear words are beeped out. At times, there are long passages of silence
in the middle of a sentence.
Schwarzenegger as the cigar chomping boss gives a gutsy
performance but otherwise Sabotage has little going for it.
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