Review of Sabotage

Sabotage (2014)
6/10
An extremely violent thriller with hair-rising scenes , gruesome crimes and breathtaking car chases
2 April 2023
This nail-biting thriller packs noisy action, car chases, explosion, shoot outs, and continuous intrigue . It's a noir movie plenty of suspense, thrills , bone-chilling set pieces , dirty cops and police brutality . An elite DEA team led by John 'Breacher' Wharton (Arnold Schwarzenegger) raids the safe house of a drug cartel and hide $10 million in the plumbing. When they go back to retrieve the money it is not there. The team (Sam Worthington, Joe Manganiello, Josh Holloway , Terrence Howard , Max Martini , Mireille Enos) is under investigation for the missing $10 million. Then after a couple months the investigation is lifted. The team trains together again and then celebrates at a strip club. Then one of the team is murdered. There is a female City of Atlanta investigator (Olivia Williams) and her helper (Harold Perrineau) in charge of the murders. After investigating the cartel angle, the twisted truth comes to light. Leave no loose ends. The hunters become the hunted. Ten Men. Ten Million. Zero Trust.

Nice action film displays action-packed, thrills , fast-paced , wild fighting images and spectacular pursuits . The plot is typical and simple , the ordinary issue in which certain law enforcement members suspected of being corrupt who are slain one by one ; here some members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house , then the body count rises and everyone is a suspect , becoming into a whodunit ; in fact , it is loosely based on Agatha Christie's classic novel "And Then There Were None" : as one of the members of the team wakes up in his RV on railroad tracks , then a second team member is nailed to the ceiling , the third team member is gunned down at his remote cabin and going on. This is an imaginative , action-filled thriller with some excellent moments , even if the storyline is not up to the scale of the tale . David Ayer helped immeasurably by cameraman Bruce McCleery and an excellent creative team has created the ultimate vision of an outlandish enforcement elite as hell on earth , including some nighmarish activities . While the film was praised for its acting performances, action sequences, and dark tone, the script was criticized for its clichés . Main and support cast are pretty good with plenty of familiar faces . Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger giving one of the best acting as the leader of an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels . Being accompanied by Sam Worthington , Olivia Williams , Josh Holloway, Joe Manganiello, Terrence Howard , Mireille Enos , Harold Perrineau, Martin Donovan, Michael Monks , Gary Grubbs , among others.

The motion picture was professionally directed by David Ayer , though it has some flaws , gaps , failures and being really predictable. Ayer is a prestigious writer and director with successes enough , writing or directing films as : Fury , SWAT , Training day , The Tax Collector , U-571 , Fast and furious saga, Suicide Squad , among others. Rating : 6/10 . Passable and acceptable.
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