I was laughing and giggling throughout the movie, enjoying every bit of it. Of course it is absurd, the super special ops type hero getting revenge after revenge against the Russian Mob. There is great humor in some of the tools he employed as weapons. Not to mention his lightning quick moves, while he sees five steps ahead in slow motion.
Throughout 99% of it I thought it was great. Until the very very end.
Why did the end bother me? Because even given the role-with-it premise (which is great fun), the end makes absolutely NO
SENSE.
WARNING: KIND OF A SPOILER THOUGH NOT MUCH OF ONE: By the end of the movie, Denzel's cover is totally blown, with multiple witnesses seeing him in action, witnesses who knew him and would have easily identified him (as their hero), with bodies and destruction littered all over the place in his aftermath, and yet ... no police, no investigation, no nothing. Even a major act that if committed by someone else could be viewed as an act of "terrorism" is ... poof, nothing. So Denzel, after all this action, that would be easily and inevitably tagged to him, just goes on with his ordinary everyday I'm-happy-to-work-at-Home-Depot life, living in his same old neighborhood and drinking tea at the same old diner. It would have been so easy for him, at the end of the film, to be in a different city with a new cover identity. THAT, in the context of the wild premise, would have at least made sense.
So yeh ... the movie is great fun ... but the very very ending could have been better.
