Parker (2013)

Jason Statham's this action-crime was really good to watch. With good storyline, Action sequences, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Betrayal this movie is a one time watch. This movie is not watchable with your family. The movie collected 46.2 million worldwide among the budget of 35 million with the verdict of Below Average.

A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist. Parker is definitely not one of Jason Statham's best films and it has it's fair share of problems especially Michael Chiklis as the villain was kind of a letdown, Jennifer Lopez was fine i guess although she wasn't that much needed to be in here but she did pretty good and as a whole this is a watchable action flick that's all. (7/10)

There are so many Jason statham action films out there that it is crazy, this guy will always have a steady paycheck and that is credit to him. I have just watched Parker and this is one of the more forgettable films he has done for sure. The premise of the film sees a thief with a code betrayed and left for dead, do he has to go after the ones who turned on him. Now Jason statham was okay in this movie because he played the same character that he does in everything so it works in this film. But his character has this code and he just ignores it for the majority of the movie and I just don't understand why you're really meant to root for this guy that much as he isn't shown to be a good person. On the positives Michael chiklis is actually quite entertaining in his role and you can tell he is having fun in this role. But everybody else is just so boring, Jennifer Lopez is a one dimensional character that is as cliché as you can get, same could be said for Bobby canavalle's character and I could barely understand nick nolte half the time he was on screen. The story should have been a simple one of a revenge thriller but it tries to be too much and introduce other plot elements that you just don't care about or want to see in this movie. By the time the film focuses up you will have lost interest in what is going on. The script surprisingly had some decent humour in it, and some one liners that actually worked because of what type of film this is. But the dram is awful, I didn't care when I was supposed to and it hurts the film as it leads to you not really rooting for the characters. The style has some pretty brutal action scenes in it and I liked some of the heist elements of the film. Though I noticed that the editing of some of the fights was really jarring and hard to follow as it cuts so many times. Also the pacing of this film is not good, I would have preferred it to have been easily 15/20 minutes shorter then what it was. Overall safe is another statham movie but unless you are a huge fan of his I reckon this is one to ignore.

Director Taylor Hackford has really become a hack now with this dull action non-adventure film starring Jason Statham as a principled thief called Parker who is left for dead by his gang led by Michael Chiklis as they need his share of the cut as seed money for their next heist.Luckily Parker is found by a passing farmer and taken to hospital where he escapes from. With the help of his fixer, Nick Nolte he tracks down the gang in Florida where they are planning their next big job and Parker aims to get revenge with the help of Jennifer Lopez who plays a down on her luck real estate agent. It is a mundane action film, not original even though it is adapted from a book by Donald Westlake and was previously made by John Boorman as the far superior Point Blank. The film is too generic, overlong and the action scenes are flat. The film needed to be tauter and sharper and Statham who plays better when his films are injected with comedy is all wrong here. J- Lo's character is just pointless and there is no frisson between her and Statham.