Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sam Worthington

Olivia Williams

Mireille Enos

Joe Manganiello

Harold Perrineau

Josh Holloway

Terrence Howard

Max Martini

Kevin Vance

Mark Schlegel

Maurice Compte

Ned Yousef

Martin Donovan

Michael Monks

Nick Chacon

Tim Ware

Gary Grubbs

B.J. Winfrey

Kendrick Cross

Hakim Callender

Troy Garity

Morgan Alexandria

Jermaine Holt

Jaime FitzSimons

Everton Lawrence

Neko Parham

DeWayne Calhoun

Maia Moss-Fife

Parisa Johnston

Alan Gilmer

Emily B. Torres

Catherine Dyer

Patrick Johnson

Jose Vasquez

Eddie J. Fernandez

Adrian F. Gonzalez

Jared Woods

Antony Matos

Laurence Chavez

Maya Santandrea

Travis Lee Young

Terry Gragg

Paul Anthony Barreras

Amy Parrish

Elizabeth Davidovich

Andrew Comrie-Picard

Andrew Fincher

Mario Ramirez Reyes

Michelle Alvarado Martins

Melissa Martínez

Jimmy Ortega

Sabrina LeBrun

Luis Moncada

Chris Trouble Delfosse

Carlos Ayala

Daniel Moncada

Ralf Moeller

Luci Romberg

Palak Patel

Bill Block

Paul Hanson

David Ayer

Jasi Cotton Lanier

Mary Claire Hannan

Andy Simonson

Clint Bennett

Dody Dorn

John Sievert

Marc Fishman

Christian P. Minkler

Skip Woods

Kevin Constant

James L. Roberts

Cliff Carothers

Albert Gasser

Billy D. Lucas

Richard B. Wester

Douglas Womack

Randall L. Johnson

Piero Mura

Lindsay Graham Ahanonu

Mary Vernieu

Tina Roesler Kerwin

Ethan Smith

Elisa Carlson

Jennifer M. Gentile

Thomas Minton

Devorah Herbert

Mike Gunther

Derek Bird

Kyle Woods

Bruce McCleery

Frank McEldowney

Babette Stith

Heather Sease

Rosie Bernhard

Paolo Cascio

Robert Zuckerman

Ramon Engle

Micky Froehlich

Marc Dobiecki

Tracey L. Miller-Smith

Quintessence Patterson

Adam Klein

Cliff Fleming

Gregg Brilliant

David McLean

Cedar Valentine

Kelvin R. Trahan

Toby Sells

Caitlin McKenna

Matthew W. Mungle

Myra N. Foy

Steve Karnes

Carla Brenholtz

Jason Michael Brown

David Butler

Lance Aldredge

Dan Cornwall

Daniel S. Irwin

David Sardy

Halima K. Gilliam

Gary Tuers

Gabriel Beristain

Julie Feiner

Denise Gallo

Jason Blumenfeld

Anton Lessine

Dieter Rauter

Albert S. Ruddy

Jennifer Badger

Martin De Boer

Gernot Friedhuber

Chad Guerrero

Joe Roth

Sasha Shapiro

Alex Ott

Geoff Yim

Clinton Wayne

Sarah Carter

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Thriller

Crime

Sabotage

Open Road Films

QED International

ASR Productions

Crave Films

Roth Films

Universal Pictures

United States of America

English

mexico

hostage

drug addiction

atlanta

strip club

drug cartel

crime scene

police corruption

brutality

drugs

bribe

Reno

Not expected this from the director. For a title called 'Sabotage' which had one of our times greatest action hero in it the story drags with lots of drama than stunts. Arnold Schwarzenegger is not young anymore and he's not capable of heavy stunts, but still he handled well those crucial parts. No doubt he was good, and also the direction, but the story was not well written. Especially the twist was so pale and the supporting characters were hyped better than the Arnie's, but failed to hold and deliver when the story needed them.

Due to create the suspense some of the assassins were kept undisplayed for the viewers and that is another let down. Because in the whole movie action sequences were the weakest except the opening scene and those murders were somehow produced expectancy. This movie was not bad, but an average. It can be watched once though it may not fulfill your thirst for fine enjoyment. You may like what I did not, so I can't put it to discardable list.


6½/10

Per Gunnar Jonsson

I cannot help but wonder if this movie would have gotten better reviews if Schwarzenegger had not been cast in the lead role. I get the feeling that people had certain expectations due to the choice of actor. In any case, the ridiculously low one and two star ratings are rubbish. They are utterly undeserved as far as I am concerned.

Personally, I quite liked the movie. Sure it is not Oscar material and it will not go on any of my top ten lists but I found it rather enjoyable to watch.

Schwarzy is not young any more so you should not expect him to play roles as he did at the height of his career before he made the unfortunate decision to wade into the dirty waters of politics. Still he performed quite alright in the various action scenes in this movie. And there are a fair amount of action in the movie as well as a fair amount of blood substitute. It is not really an all out action movie though and the story that underpins the action have a certain amount of drama in it.

I would say that the actors in general are doing a god job of their roles. The drug enforcement team looks more like a biker gang than a police team but then, to work undercover in the world of the drug cartels you really have to be part crazy. There are no young sexy chicks in this movie, unless you count a few scenes in bars and strip clubs. Actually the two female lead characters can be said to be downright ugly which may be another reason why some people of the younger audience give the movie a low rating although that is of course pure speculation on my part :-) . In any case, I think the choice of female characters fits perfectly well with the rest of the movie (as well as Schwarzy’s age).

The story is a mix of the fairly classical one of revengeful drug cartels and incompetent FBI directors with a bit of a twist from the money heist and the disappearing money. The implementation might be a wee bit imperfect at times but to me it was a good enough story. I did like the ending with the classical shoot out in the bar although I also did consider taking a star off due to the tragic last few scenes. What can I say? I am a sucker for happy endings.

**A hopeless mess from start to finish, unfortunately.**

This is not a good film, not even to watch with your buddies while drinking beer (which I did). It has some promise in its premise, and at one point we actually wanted to know how the actual betrayal was done, but that feeling soon vanished.

I personally think that Arnold does a decent job with what he has to work with, the rest of the actors are pretty atrocious though. Sam Worthington is the best of the rest but that isn't saying much. Pair this with some of the most clichéd, over-the-top, obnoxious personalities ever put on film and sprinkle some next level cringeworthy dialogue on top and you have a recipe for characters you will actively despise. We actually cheered when they got killed off.

The biggest flaw of the movie is the editing though. As I mentioned we really wanted to be invested in this movie but either the director or the editor was really hung-over - or possibly still drunk - when they cut this movie. Multiple scenes and situations made less than no sense, and the final nail in the coffin was the realization that the inciting moment, the very reason the entire movie exists, was so badly edited that none of us understood what actually had happened until it was explained by a character much later.

The final ten minutes of the movie made it painfully clear that it wouldn't have mattered if we had understood it, or anything really, as the "twist" (I wish I could use even bigger quotation marks) is both underwhelming and as twisted as metal ruler. You get no explanation of how the betrayal is done, no explanation why the events that are portrayed in the movie ever take place, nor why the characters act the way they did.

Honestly though, it's our own fault to expect any sort of arc or depth to characters that probably has fewer than two lines of description in the script. It made for some relatively entertaining moments though when all of a sudden characters acted even more erratic and confusing than usual. It became a game of sorts to try and figure out if this was because one or more scenes were cut or if the writer/director actually was that incompetent.

The one redeeming quality of this movie is that they took their blood and splatter of said blood seriously. There are a couple of almost intense moments solely due to some realistic gore. There isn't enough to entice any fans of gore and splatter to watch this though.

Give this one a pass unless you're really acing for some sub-par action with a mediocre performance from Arnold.

<em>'Sabotage'</em> is almost watchable, but it just falls short of being that in my eyes.

It does have issues. I didn't really enjoy Arnold Schwarzenegger in this, but his performance does improve slightly as the film goes on. Mireille Enos isn't the best, nor are any of her co-stars behind Arnie to be honest - Sam Worthington and Olivia Williams are alright, more miss than hit though.

This 2014 flick also feels like an all too obvious attempt to replicate <em>'<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/the-expendables/" rel="nofollow">The Expendables</a>'</em> from four years prior (or same year, going by TE3), at least until the ending - where I feel like it does something else. Speaking of the conclusion though, it all felt a bit rushed and not well developed. Another negative is that all the characters are unlikeable, even across the first chunk when the film seems to want them to be.

Those are numerous criticisms, evidently, and would usually equal a lower rating from myself. However, as noted at the top, it is almost something I could just sit back and watch, without thinking too much about it. I'm all for so-called 'switch off your brain' flicks, but this doesn't quite reach that level in my opinion.

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Written by Reno on Thu Sep 11 2014

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