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Veteran firefighter Gordon Brewer’s
life is torn apart when the evil-o El Lobo blows up a building in LA and kills his family.
Gordon loses his wife and son and he mourns them in the only way an actor with extremely limited range and some serious
Botox can, he grimaces, looks blank, let’s the movie explain how he’s in pain instead of showing it. Then he heads off to Columbia for sweet vengeance.
| Ok here's the plan little grenade friend... |
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| you take out 10 Columbians and I'll outrun some bullets and then bite that guys ear off... USA! |
Once in Columbia we are treated to the water
downed version of an action flick. The action sequences shift between Gordon
looking old & out of breath in the jungle and Gordon looking old and out of breath in front of what is obviously a green
screen. Then in a nice ‘fuck you’ to both the Colombian government
and the F.B.I. he finds the terrorist leader’s secret hideaway camp in less than a day.
Once there he pretty much adopts El Lobo’s family and takes them back to the good old USA, where they get to
hang out in top secret facilities that would leave the nation’s security vulnerable if perhaps a terrorist mole was
allowed to roam freely in them. Wow I can’t imagine that biting him
in the ass at a later point in the film, what a surprising plot twist that would be.
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| ::pant, pant, wheeze:: |
During
a heated exchange between Gordon & El Lobo the terrorist says, “It seems we're both willing to kill for a cause. So what's the
difference between you and me then?” Gordon replies, “The difference is ... I'm only going to kill YOU.” Which is funny considering all the people he kills in this film,
including a cringe worthy scene where he electrocutes a woman. You see Gordon
has an aversion to guns; he doesn’t want to shoot people. However constructing
homemade bombs to blow them up is ok, so is chopping them to death with an ax, or biting their ears off, but shooting, that’s
just wrong. I guess what happens in Columbia stays in Columbia.
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