Looking forward to seeing it. I'm a sucker for revenge movies.

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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Yeah, I thought it was ok. The plot is a bit simplified from the book, as you would expect. The action was decent, although the main character is kind of hard to like or root for. Decent popcorn action film.

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(insert pithy phrase here...)

O 'Brien seems a little smallish and pretty to pull off Rapp. Not as bad as Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, though. I'll see the movie. read each of Flynn's books 2-3 times!

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Did slowguy give you permission to do his job?

Cruise as Reacher is probably the biggest case of casting whiplash I've ever experienced. So much of the books emphasize Reacher being this 6'5" beast, and then cruise comes on screen and is like "I'm big enough to start T-ball next spring!"

Exactly.

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Thanks for your review.

I am a big Vince Flynn fan and was skeptical about the movie. As I understand it, the basic plot is the same, but the movie doesn't follow the book's story line.

From what I am hearing now, it would be best to treat it as a separate movie, just with the same character names.

FWIW, I think that Dylan O'Brien does seem too "small" to play Mitch Rapp, also, whenever I read the book, I have an image of Jodie Foster as Irene Kennedy.

When is it set?

So I just watched this today. What a piece of garbage. I enjoy the books. This basically pisses on the books and the suspension of disbelief needed is well beyond that of the books. I feel like I just wasted an hour and a half

Given your rave reviews of The Twilight Saga, I'm not surprised this movie was not your cup of Zima. But, it delivered what it promised and that is all that can be asked.

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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Never seen Twilight Saga

Dude it was a shitty movie Mitch Rapp or no.

Yeah! Right! Next you will be claiming you have never had a Zima!

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My wife normally loves these kinds of "valorous hero gets revenge against the bad guys who wronged him" movies but even she was pretty "meh" about it after watching it. It was kind of a let down after the opening beachside terror attack sequence -- which was a really great setup, but which just couldn't carry the movie through some fairly uninspired storyline later in the pic. The three-letter supersecret spy agency/Assassin Central characters weren't very convincing, either. The bad guys were, at best, boilerplate baddies, too (Art Malik and his bunch were actually more entertaining as paper cutout heavies in 1994's "True Lies," even). On a scale of 1 to 5, I think it was a 2 at most.

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I watched this last night with a few beers after we got home from dinner. I clicked over about half way through the beach massacre and from that figured it looked promising. Not good. I read the books 10-15 years ago, and recall the basics of the Mitch Rapp experience, but don’t really remember them in detail.

As a stand alone the movie was formulaic, poorly cast and poorly acted. Some decent action scenes and whileI enjoyed watching Michael Keaton get his fingernails pulled off, most of it was stuff the Bourne movies did 100X’s better.

In the end, I watched it. I could have turned the channel, but I didn’t, so 2/5 seems about right.

I watched it last night but had to video the last 40 mins...it was late. Gonna finish it tonite...for me, I liked it, it was far from perfect a good movie to watch to kill a few hours.

Just FYI that was the part that made me throw in the towel