a5c7b9f00b Detective Sergeant Tom Brant who is dispatched to take down a serial killer hell bent on killing off the police force one by one. &quot;The Blitz&quot; manages to slip through the grasp of Tom every time, and with the precious lives of his colleagues diminishing one by one, Tom is led to the question: if we can&#39;t protect our own, then what good are we? A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers. A cop killing crim is giving the police the run around in old London town.<br/><br/>Blitz is a good movie that finally comes to life about 20 to 30 minutes in when we finally get to the main story. Once the chase is on with the odd couple partnership of tough rule breaking Tom Brant (Jason Statham) and gay straight laced Porter Nash (Paddy Considine) pursuing the cop killing criminal who&#39;s hungry for notoriety the Blitz (Aiden Gillen) the movie comes into it&#39;s stride. Before that we&#39;re inundated with so many characters it&#39;s a little confusing. What makes matters worse is that none of these side characters stories are ever really finished and the time wasted on them could have been spent giving a little more screen time to Porter Nash who is sadly underused.<br/><br/>Don&#39;t get me wrong though I enjoyed the film. Aiden Gillen is a brilliant bad guy, giving his character a Johnny Rotten swagger. I felt myself enjoying hating the Blitz and couldn&#39;t wait to see him get his just deserts but we could have done with getting a little more insight into his behaviour. Statham does a good job showing a little weakness now and then in his usually gruff demeanour. As I have already said Paddy Considine is great but not in it enough for my liking. London looks great and there is an exciting chase through the streets which is one of the high points of the movie.<br/><br/>I enjoyed the movie and would happily watch it again. It&#39;s biggest fault was trying to juggle too many story lines at once and unfortunately it dropped a couple of balls. Can this guy act (Jason Statham)? He is always exactly the same. When you know he is in a movie, you know exactly what to expect. It is like watching the same movie over and over again. He is nothing else than a Steven Seagal or Jean Claude Van Damme. If you recall, their first movie is always pretty good but you get tired of the same scenario which only provides excuses for (I have to admit) pretty good but similar fighting scenes, and very little more.<br/><br/>What I dislike the most from these &quot;actors&quot;(?) is that they refuse to get in their role in order to maintain their pathetic personality. On this particular movie, Statham goes to a policemen&#39;s funeral dress in his street clothes. Who does that? At a police funeral, everyone wear their uniform, period. But that was probably too much asking to Mr Statham. Also, have a look at his unshaven face and how many movies have you seen it like this before? This reminds me of Seagal who was wearing his pony tale with a military uniform in one of his previous film; &quot;hey I will make you the honour of being the star of that movie but don&#39;t expect me to change my appearance&quot;! On this particular movie, I thought it was pretty predictable. No surprise here. Who needs a scenario when you have this great fighter? Isn&#39;t that enough? Moreover, this stupid heavy metal they add on the action scenes. Annoying, loudh…, and has really nothing to do with the scene except to make you lose your concentration and lower the volume (where you can…).<br/><br/>I was expecting (hoping?) for much more. This is the last movie I watch with this guy in, unless he is a real low secondary actor in it (which he should always be). This guy belongs in a ring, not in a movie.<br/><br/>Now, pls don&#39;t give Jason my address. One thing he could do is kick my a… I can run, but if he can run like he did in that movie without even breathing hard, I am done!
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