Fans will not be disappointed
DVD: Bullet to the Head Reviewed by: Samantha Keogh Review made possible by: NuMetro
Sylvester Stallone, 67 years of age and still fighting fit, brings the same energy to Walter Hill’s Bullet to the Head as he did to his portrayal of Rocky Balboa and John Rambo.
Although more sartorially elegant than in Rocky and Rambo, Stallone retains his two-coke-bottles-rubbing-together voice in this film rendition of Alexis Nolent’s French graphic novel Du Plomb Dans La Tete, to reprise the tough, “basically a nice guy” role that has become his brandmark.
The film premiered at the International Rome Film Festival on November 14, 2012 and sees New Orleans hitman Jimmy Bobo (Stallone) form an uncomfortable liaison with Washington DC Detective Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang) to revenge the murders of their respective partners.
This, an action flick, liberally seasoned with skiet and donner and the odd sprinkling of dry humour, has all the usual suspects – corrupt police, blackmail, murder and torture.
It has all the kind of violence you’d expect but a new twist comes in the highlight fight scene – a battle of fire axes between Bobo and arch-villain Keegan (played by Jason Mamoa who some might remember as Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones). The fight ends unexpectedly but not before Bobo and Keegan whale the tar out of each other
Set and filmed in New Orleans, Bullet to the Head is soul food for the action genre aficionado – and, of course, for the “serious” film buff who creeps in the back door of the movie theatre to indulge a secret passion for baser and more visceral offerings.
Stallone fans will not be disappointed.
