Blitz (2011)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

DS Tom Brant is a tough south London cop is a reputation for getting rougher than is strictly necessary; as we are introduced to him he is dealing with a trio of young thugs with a Hurling stick. Soon he, and just about every other police officer. Is looking for a man who shot a police woman in cold blood. It isn't long before a policeman is also killed and it is apparent that somebody is targeting the police. The killer, who refers to himself as 'Blitz' contacts a reporter and makes it apparent that he intends to keep on killing police officers. Acting DI Porter Nash is put in charge of the case and working with Brant they close in on the man Brant is convinced is guilty; unfortunately the evidence required to hold their suspect isn't strong enough. In a secondary plot thread PC Elizabeth Falls, who works under Brant, it trying to help a youth who is in trouble as well as deal with a drug habit she picked up while working undercover.This is a solid enough police thriller that fans of Jason Statham will probably enjoy; not surprisingly he plays tough cop Brant… anybody who has seen any of his films will know what to expect; he may not have the greatest range but what he does he does well. Paddy Considine does a good job as Nash; a gay cop who avoids any clichés. Aidan Gillen is suitably menacing as the killer but not as impressive as he is in 'Game of Thrones'… although to be fair that would be difficult. Zawe Ashton is good as PC Falls as is David Morrissey as reporter Harold Dunlop. People wanting full on action may be a bit disappointed but there is still some action as well as some fairly brutal violence. Overall I'd recommend this to fans of Jason Statham; it isn't his best film but it is still a decent way to pass an hour and a half.

Now there has been a lot of Jason Statham action films over the years some good and some bad but this one fits in the middle as distinctly average. This story sees Stathams character looking for a cop killer called the blitz. Now Statham is really good in this film doing his best to combine the action and humour that he is really good at and he is easily the best part of the film which is no shock. The rest of the cast is not great though, now aiden Gillen is a good actor and he does a villain well and this film is really no different with his performance being pretty memorable. Stathams detective partner and the female cop aren't very convincing and there story plots especially the female cops is completely unnecessary and a complete waste of time. We do get a nice cameo from Luke Evans but it is not enough to make up for the overall cast. The story is pretty terrible to be honest with the main story being incredibly simplistic and the reasoning behind everything was not really explained. Also it spent way too much on the secondary story and I hated it. The script is okay with most of Stathams lines being funny and gillans being creepy but the rest was very simplistic and nothing really to it. The style is a bit of a mixed bag with the backgrounds being exactly the same as a lot of films and it does nothing new. But I do give this film credit for the fact that it was willing to show more violent action. Overall this is just an average film and unless you enjoy Statham films you can miss it.

Despite a lot of silly mistakes (like murders appearing on front pages of daily newspapers on the day of the murder etc) I was getting into this flick until the point when Blitz is released with the police unable to charge him. As he is collecting his belongings from the desk, he is handed the envelope containing 50 grand that he had taken from the informant when he murdered him in the toilets. The police knew that the 50 grand was from the informant because Dunlop told Brant that he had spent ten minutes in the toilet searching for it after finding the informants body. So a suspected killer with a motive and very strong circumstantial evidence against him is released when all along he was in possession of an envelope with Dunlops, the informants and his own prints on it. The envelope was last seen in the hands of the informant before he was murdered. Do me a favour....

This may get better as it rolls along and a plot develops. I wouldn't know. I shouldn't really be leaving a comment because I only watched the five-minute opening scene and the credits.But if I can't tell you how it ends, I can give you some idea of how it begins. Jason Statham is a tall, brawny, bald-shaven brute with a mean expression. He's lying on his couch one night, looking bored, rises and glances out his window to see three hoodlums trying to force open the door of his car in the alley.Cut. Statham strides slowly towards the thugs, carrying what he describes to them as a "hurling stick." They begin to spit curses at him and pull box cutters on him. They've never seen a dumb action movie or they'd know this is a big mistake.Statham demolishes them with his stick and when they're on the pavement, groaning in pain, he kicks them and deliberately stabs a hood with his own box cutter. "Next time you pick a fight, choose the right weapon." The credits follow -- white block letters on a black background, spastic, dancing around, jumpy, manically mad.That was enough for me. I'd already gotten the moral message. From now on, action heroes will have to be practically illiterate -- and very bald and sweaty.