This week's $5.25 Tuesday Guys' Movie is "Homefront," starring Jason Statham. (Pronounced "Stay-thumb." You could look it up. I did, at www.pronouncenames.com .) He's that Brit who "burst into the American consciousness," as they say — at least, I think they say it — in the choppy-socky car-chase "Transporter" trilogy. You know, bald, muscles, hairier than Sean Connery in his Bond heyday? But I digress....
The story, though warmed over, is pretty good. A retired/widowed DEA agent moves with his 10-year-old daughter into the bayous of south Louisiana. They seek a quiet life, but of course you know how that goes. Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay and did a, ahem, "bang-up job" (Bang-up job, get it? Snurk!). And the action, wow!
As in the Statham movies I've seen, he's a bad dude. Winona Ryder and James Franco support, but it's Statham who's Da Man.
"Homefront" has the requisite car chases/wrecks, LOTSA hand-to-hand smashie-face personal interaction (martial arts to you and me), and major gunplay near the end. Only two explosions, but they're impressive. Even a little bumpty-bump, but just a little, and an inattentive kid might miss it (unless he's a pre-teen boy. HE won't).
Moms, the violence isn't anything kids don't in most video games nowadays. Because of the aforementioned bty-b and some spotty F-bombs, however, let your kids view at your own risk.
Definitely a Guys' Movie. I liked it mucho. It gets a picnic basketful of knuckle sandwiches, 2 sticks of TNT, and 2 pairs of nunchucks with matching steel-toed boots.
