UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

GazerRise Fantastic!

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

stevenrotherforth ParkerWhat starts out to be yet another bland but entertaining Statham actioner, soon descends into a real borefest. Jason Statham is one of those actors that you could watch attempting to make paint dry. However in Parker not even Statham's abundance of charisma can keep this movie about a left for dead thief out to get revenge seem interesting.Sharing top billing is Jennifer Lopez who adds nothing to this tedious movie other than flashing a little flesh. In fact it's probably where her character is introduced that's where the film begins to descend. In all fairness this is nothing to do with her performance yet the films slow pace. With a runtime of 1 hr 58 mins I forget just when Miss Lopez actually makes her first appearance. It was well into the movie and by then I had lost all investment in proceedings.Not even the action has any memorable scenes. Odd for such a action legend like Mr Statham. His fight scene with Martial arts movie veteran Daniel Bernhardt is lame and not to both actors usual standards. Couple this with Parker's seeming invincibility and the movie can't even be considered to be mildly believable. The guy gets dumped from a fast moving vehicle, shot multiple times, stabbed in the chest and hand, punched, kicked, thrown around like a rag doll and he doesn't so much as faint from copious amounts of blood loss. Eventually I just gave up on this movie and turned it off. I consider myself to be a Jason Statham fan but my interest just bled out.With a strong support including Nick Nolte, Clifton Collins Jr, Michael Chiklis and Glitch's Emma Booth you'd think something special could have developed here. Unfortunately this one won't stay in the memory banks for twenty four hours. In fact the only thing that may haunt me from this movie is Statham's hilarious Texas accent!

demetrius11 I recently read the amazing Parker Graphic Novel series. Original Parker takes place in the 60's, is way more action packed/fast paced than the 2013 movie, and they have a Film Noir atmosphere. The Novels would make an amazing movie if the producers did not "transport" Parker in the future. Parker is a character taken straight out of Sin City. He reminds me of a tank that crashes everyone on his path. He does not have a girlfriend as far as I know, and no one cares about his love life.Overall, the movie is not bad at all. It only comes short when I compare it to the original Parker. Statham makes the Perfect Parker !I highly recommend checking out the graphic novels !

Tweekums Parker is a thief with his own moral code; he won't rob from those who can't afford it and he won't hurt anybody unless he thinks they deserve it… he also does what he says he will do and expects the same of others. His father in law sets him up with a reputable crew to rob the Ohio State Fair; things don't quite go according to plan and afterwards this crew tell Parker that they intend to use their million dollar haul to fund their next job. Parker wants out so they shoot him and leave him for dead. Of course he isn't dead and he is soon on their trail; he intends to find them, wait for them to do their robbery then take their spoils before killing them. This takes him to Palm Beach, Florida, where he poses as a wealthy Texan looking to buy property. Estate agent Leslie Rodgers shows him a variety of properties including some that have recently sold… one particularly interests him and sure enough it is the one the gang are using as their base. When it becomes clear that Parker is alive the gang's mob connections send a killer to deal with him.If you are looking for something deep and meaningful then you are likely to be disappointed but if you want a solid crime caper with Jason Statham doing his thing then this is rather fun. In many ways Parker is like most other characters he plays; tough and almost certain to come out on top even after he has taken a beating. There is plenty of great action and a few shocking moments; most notably when Parker gets a knife through his hand. Jennifer Lopez does a decent job as Leslie; it made a refreshing change that at no point did was there any romance between the two leads. The rest of the cast were solid enough; especially Michael Chiklis who was believably menacing as the chief antagonist. Overall I'd say this is well worth watching if you are a fan of Jason Statham or enjoy the genre.

inspectors71 Mel Gibson's career exploded, he did a remake of the Richard Stark novel about a thief who is double-crossed and rains down vengeance. It was called Payback. Payback was a remake of John Boorman's superb Point Blank (1967) with Lee Marvin. There's another remake out there with Robert Duvall called The Outfit.To paraphrase George C. Scott in Hardcore, "Turn it off! For the love of God, turn it off!"It was a great story, originally. The Boorman movie was surreal and psychotic, at least until you realized you were watching a ghost story. There were parts of the Duvall flick that were pretty good. Watching Sheree North parade around in that little bathrobe thingy comes to mind. The Gibson flick was good until we got involved with a weird black van filled with ninja hit-people socking and punching in the street.But stop the remakes, alright? I was sort of involved in this absurd actioner (absurdity, defined as watching Jason Statham jumping out of a car at 55 miles per hour, getting shot, and getting better) when up pops Jennifer Lopez, a woman who can act, but apparently chose not to here. When realtor Lopez shows up, the movie crashes, and never recovers.The crimes themselves are big, splashy heists that stretch the viewer's tolerance of absurdity to the limit. Statham sleepwalks through everything he does, except for when he adopts a ridiculous Texas drawl (when he slips, Lopez chirps, "I just knew you weren't from Texas!").Michael Chiklis and Nick Nolte are wasted in their parts, and the character list in general is so murky that the viewer has to accept that somebody got peeved when somebody did something to somebody else, and where the Hell did Statham get those guns after he gets fished out of a canal after being shot and stabbed and gored and mutilated and made fun of by his nasty compatriots?Am I, possibly, overthinking here?Yup.Suffice it to say that if the mere thought of shooting and stabbing and goring and mutilating is all you need in a movie, Taylor Hackford's 85th remake of a crime novel written once, Parker, will be all you'll ever need.