homefront ( film )
homefront is a 2013 american action film directed by gary fleder. the film is based on chuck logan' s novel of the same name. the film was released on november 27, 2013 .
homefront makes a familiar scenario fresh, propelled by jason statham' s phil broker .
both homefront and the original red dawn were co - written by screenwriter john milius .
have a read his homefront: the voice of freedom prequel novel. somebody in the sa homefront thread put up some brief excepts, and it' s * bloody awful * .
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tomorrow when the war began and homefront don' t have the same writers. the writer fro homefront was the guy who wrote the original red dawn - yeah i forgot his name .
home sweet homefront … jason statham and izabela vidovic. photograph: allstar / lionsgate / sportsphoto ltd
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sylvester stallone originally developed the screenplay as an installment of his rambo film series. see more »
up to date as of july 7th, 2018 (give or take a film or three) .
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
. why is that so interesting? because they already shot the film as a chinese invasion of the states .
jason statham makes existentialist action films. they are neither good nor bad, they just are. homefront is no exception .
rising to the top with over $ 30 million. it was the only film that earned more than that amount, while
the blue crush star is joining jason statham and james franco in homefront, according to the hollywood reporter' s heat vision blog .
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both homefront and the original tomorrow when the war began were co - written by screenwriter john marsden... oh wait ...
homefront manages to hit all the right notes and even a few you wouldn' t expect, and there' s nothing expendable about that .
the film contains scenes of drug misuse and preparation, including crack smoking and the' cooking up' of drugs on a spoon .
homefront is an action thriller about a former dea agent who moves to a small town with his daughter and becomes the target of a local drug king .
that’s all well and good for universal’s sequel, but paramount pictures’ own franchise film star trek beyond dropped almost 60% in its second week of box office earnings. at $ 24 million domestically, the justin lin - directed film does end up taking second place and going over $ 105 million at the homefront. this film, too, continues its international rollout through october, but its international performance is lagging behind. compared to the j. j. abrams - directed installments, star trek beyond falls short of the $ 146 + million tallies they had by the end of their second weekend. it will be interesting to see how paramount responds concerning the fourth star trek film they’ve already announced; perhaps a smaller budget is in the cards .
compared with the opening number for spike lee' s oldboy (£95, 000 from 253 sites), the homefront result is a glorious triumph. oldboy fell into the trap of some previous english language remakes where the talent is not commercially appealing enough to take the film to a new audience, leaving it targeting cinemagoers who had seen the original film and may not need to see the same story twice. a similar phenomenon to when argentinian conman flick nine queens was remade as criminal starring sam rockwell, diego luna and maggie gyllenhaal – all rightly admired indie actors who couldn' t take the film beyond the original audience .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
homefront is a safe film. it breaks no boundaries, reinvents nothing, it just does what it is supposed to do and there is nothing wrong with that. if you' re up for a straightforward action film that has been made millions of times before, you' ll probably enjoy watching this. it is scripted by sylvester stallone which tells me two things. he can still read and he can still write. encouraging thoughts keeping in mind his most recent films .
so a film meant to highlight the strength and resolve of the american spirit against an oppressive regime... has just caved in to an oppressive regime ?
neither the film nor the game comes close to being a critical darling. according to metacritic, the film has a score of 36 / 100, with most reviews ranging from mixed to negative. homefront has a metacritic score of 70 / 100. and while that sounds better - and there are a few more good reviews than the film has - for a major game by a major studio, that' s a disappointing score. (as forbes contributor paul tassi points out, for most gamers, that score translates to
a generally bad game that only a few will enjoy .
) and the average user score is worse than the critical score .
mgm has been working with the film' red dawn' s' director and producers to make the most commercially viable version of the film for audiences worldwide ,
said mike vollman, executive vice president of worldwide marketing to the la times .
we want to ensure the most people possible are able to experience it .
the success of frozen contrasts with rival animation free birds, which fell by 70% from the previous weekend, the biggest drop of any film in the top 10 .
the script was written by stallone in an intentional throwbacky action film. james franco plays a total weenie small time meth dealer. he doesn' t actually do a single thing successfully in the whole film except intimidate some high school kids. he just stays fucking up. and then statham beats the shit out of him. it' s great .
the film' s producers are in the process of digitally altering the new red dawn, swapping out chinese imagery and changing dialogue to make the film' s aggressors north korean, reports the la times. studio execs were concerned about chinese leadership being offended by the war flick and losing (potentially) a billion viewers over red dawn' s choice of villain .
extrapolating the parallels from homefront to red dawn, my guess is that the new film will do decently - probably enough to take back its estimated $ 75 million production budget, but not too much more. i' d be surprised to see it crack $ 100 million, and i' d also guess that the box office take is going to be pretty frontloaded with large drop - offs in the coming weeks .
publisher thq shared similar concerns when it chose a unified korean invasion over a chinese attack on us soil. execs said china was just
not that scary
. but it too was worried about china' s reception to homefront .
homefront is an action movie about a widowed ex - dea agent who retires to a small town for the sake of his 10 - year - old daughter. the only problem is he picked the wrong town. (c) open road
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with a further five films all opening on at least 100 prints, the weekend saw a wide range of mainstream contenders go belly - up. most successful was jason statham starrer homefront, with £440, 000 from 295 sites. although that' s an improvement on the start for his last film hummingbird (£206, 000), it' s moderately down on the debuts of recent efforts such as parker (£569, 000) and safe (£680, 000) .
the trailer seems to promise a showdown between broker and drug - dealing villain gator bodine (or
gaturr bow - dine ,
as james franco introduces himself), but the film delivers something a lot more tangled and interesting. (i mean, come on: statham vs. franco would have been a six - second vine .) to avoid spoilers, let’s just say that
homefront
is more interested in how cowards and bullies thrive on manipulating each other, and how a strong, decent man like broker can find himself a victim of their parasitic politics .
homefront
is an action movie about a widowed ex - dea agent who retires to a small town for the sake of his 10 - year - old daughter. the only problem is he picked the wrong town, because it' s full of meth - selling rednecks who want their revenge .
no, i' m not talking about the re - make of red dawn, which opens over this holiday. i' m talking about homefront, a video game released by thq interactive, which shares more than a few similarities to the new movie. homefront' s story is credited to john milius, who wrote the script for the 1984 red dawn. and like the red dawn remake, the initial villains were chinese before being changed to north korea. the parallels are interesting enough to make me wonder if the game will also offer a preview of how red dawn will perform at the box office .
the film, which sylvester stallone has adapted from a book by chuck logan, follows a former drug enforcement agent, played by jason, who wants to retire to a small town and live the quiet life. but his plans are scuppered by a villainous drug dealer played by james .
. this film made just over $ 20 million at the box office, which is amazing for a limited release. however, it is still a limited release on top of the new releases. that tells you how slow this week is on the home market. fortunately, last friday
aside from the messy action scenes, the film has a professional look and the actors generally supply ample juice playing over - excitable characters. only statham isn' t allowed to join in the fun, obliged as he is to remain in stolid, stalwart mode while everyone goes ballistic around him .
“it’s a bit like appalachia: you can go from two kids in a fistfight to the emergency room real fast, ” advises one concerned citizen in “homefront, ” a tale of backwoods retribution that resembles roman polanski’s “carnage” transplanted to “deliverance” country, where feuding parents prefer outright war to wars of words. but what sounds like a [ … ]
homefront is mostly just your typical jason statham action film, but it is livened up a bit by a scenery chewing performance from james franco a story with enough intrigue to keep you invested until the end. the action is fairly standard for the genre at this point, but still well done. sylvester stallone did the screenplay, which is contrived and ridiculous in spots and could have been improved. he wrote it specifically with statham in mind though, and it shows. it caters to his good qualities enough to make this an enjoyable b movie experience, even if it isn' t exactly high quality cinema. definitely worthwhile for action buffs or statham fans, but little appeal beyond that really .
mechanic: resurrection may have seemed liked an unasked - for sequel, but clearly someone out there wanted to see it. now if those people could just catch up on safe, the bank job, and homefront, all will be right with the world. statham will be seen next in universal / comcast corp.' s fast 8 in april of next year .
opened in one theater on friday the 22nd before expanding wide on wednesday the 27th. normally we don' t like to use films that have already opened, but it is still the best choice for the target film for this week' s box office prediction contest. in order to win, one must simply predict the opening weekend box office number for
the baton has instead been passed to sly’s expendables cohort jason statham, an actor now so reliable at guttural machismo you could never accuse his films of false advertising. homefront does nothing to stretch its leading man, but there' s something to be said for statham’s stardom and the films being slotted around it – like a stubborn bollard, you always know exactly where to find him .
a marine must do whatever it takes to save his kidnapped sister and stop a terrorist attack masterminded by a radical militia group. the marine 3: homefront is the 3rd installment in the marine series and the 2nd sequel out of the 4 that have been released so far and to be honest it was a pretty damn good and decent wwe studios film plus the miz is way better than john cena at least so that' s something and neal mcdonough made a really cool villain but then again mcdonough is great in pretty much anything that he ever does. if you enjoyed the first 2 films for what they were you' re going to enjoy this one as well but don' t expect anything more than just a fun ride. (7 / 10 )
the rest of the pack, namely statham’s many solo action vehicles, guy ritchie capers and related genre fare, all sit below the seemingly unasked - for sequel. while the film co - starred jessica alba, tommy lee jones and michelle yeoh, it was a statham action - er all the way and was sold mostly on his cred. the film earned $ 88 million in overseas grosses. so, it not only out - grossed the mechanic ($ 76m) just in overseas grosses, it would sit just between transporter 3 ($ 109m) and transporter 2 ($ 85m worldwide, but his biggest domestic solo vehicle with $ 43m back in 2005) among the top statham vehicles even if it had gone direct - to - dvd in north america .
homefront sounds faintly like a diy programme on 1990s daytime television, but turns out to be a bust - up in the bayous between a single dad and some louisiana meth runners. whatever works. faces are broken, crayfish gobbled, white - trash accents dusted off. if it’s easily imaginable as a sylvester stallone vehicle, that’s because he wrote the script, which was originally intended as the final instalment of rambo .
this is a terrific and powerful movie. a hard - edged and explosive action - packed thriller. a total knockout of an action film. one of the years best action movies hands down. a strong and tough film that when is not shooting or blowing things up it packs a hard - hitting amount of riveting drama that feels very real and effective. director, gary fleder gives a great energy to the material, crafting a fine heart - pounding film. writer / producer, sylvester stallone writes a deep, down and thrilling story that balances drama and action well. stallone wrote the role specifically for statham, giving him new reach and depth that he knew the action star could accomplish. jason statham is at his absolute best, he gives a powerful and surprisingly compassionate performance. statham proves to be getting better as an actor, just improving with every performance. james franco is excellent, finally dropping from his recent line of comedies and back to more serious territory and proving to be more than an exceptional match for statham. i loved this movie, it is truly awesome and delivers big time. it' s utterly thrilling, heart - pounding and sometimes deeply moving .
the general public, that strange amalgam of tribes and cliques (ooka chaka, ooka chaka !), will
get
this more so than those of the film intelligentsia among us. bread and circuses prepared for and designed by sly stallone, no less (who might have an idea what the film going public wants after all this time), and gives it to them. and there are some surprises: franco and ryder are great as the bad guys (uhh, spoiler alert! sorry), squeaky clean bosworth does better street ho than you could' ve imagined, and finally statham, who' s always a lone cowboy, pulls off caring dad with better chops than you would' ve thought possible. all in all a pretty decent entertainment offering once one accepts that one is here to see some bad guys get seriously pounded into the ground .
given that over the past twelve months he' s played everything from the wizard of oz and hugh hefner to spring breakers'
alien
and himself in this is the end, it' s tough to speculate about how james franco chooses his film roles. but it would be easy to believe that he agreed to play the swamp rat drug dealer in homefront just for the opportunity it provides for him to bellow out his character' s memorable name, as in
my name is gator bodine! ! !
franco clearly relishes the handle, which is more than most people will feel about this trashy, manipulative, by - the - numbers crime drama in which jason statham wrestles with both gator and an american accent. the open road entry will have to make its score very quickly upon nov. 27 release before being crowded out of the marketplace by more high - profile year - end titles .
while oldboy was met with little enthusiasm from critics and audiences (a perfectly aligned 49 / 100 on metacritic and 4. 9 / 10 rating at imdb), the same cannot be said of nebraska, which is enjoying a major awards push for lead actor bruce dern. a metacritic score of 85 / 100 and an imdb user rating of 8. 0 suggest that the film is a winner, making the weak box - office result all the more disappointing. a debut of £151, 000 from 122 cinemas is enough to push the site average into four figures (£1, 240), but you' d expect far better. alexander payne' s last film the descendants (which had the advantage of a bona fide movie star in george clooney) debuted with £1. 80m from 403 cinemas. before that, sideways kicked off with £350, 000 from 72 venues .
the boiler - plate opening action scene isn' t bad, as undercover dea agent phil broker (statham in a wig) spearheads a bust of a big city drug lab. the whole joint blows up and when the big boss is led away by the cops, he gets off a promise to broker that sets the tone for most of the film' s dialogue :
your kids are f - - - - - - dead .
now the film cost around $ 40 million to produce, so it' s not necessarily a mega blockbuster even as it may triple its budget. but this bodes well for warner bros. / time warner inc. ’s upcoming “jason statham and fan bingbing versus a giant shark” adventure meg which opens on north american shores in march of 2018. said chinese co - production will be distributed in china by gravity pictures with wb handling the rest of the world .
fleder, who is a pretty standard button - masher as an action director, actually shows infectious relish and nuance in depicting statham’s slow return to his violent ways. it’s the psychology that counts: we’ve all been there, tested and prodded constantly by some unreasonable, relentless fool who won’t recognize sincere attempts at peacemaking. statham’s discomfort at having to extend the olive branch when he’d rather jam it in the other guy’s windpipe is the film' s most suspenseful stunt .
homefront is sufficiently silly and low - down to be entertaining on a certain marginal level, but it wouldn' t appear that those involved, with the possible exception of franco, approached this with the idea that they might be making good trash; it looks too elaborate and costly for that and the script exhibits no self - aware humor. so when real peril arrives for broker and maddy, it just feels as though the computer has rotely delivered the pre - programmed climactic scenes that have been indicated from close to the beginning .
once the slow fuse of jason statham’s fury reaches the dynamite, fleder unleashes a series of old school set pieces that cry out for the economy of a walter hill or the operatic style of a john woo. or, even better, the slow - roast verisimilitude of a jeff nichols, whose
shotgun stories
is arguably the greatest backwoods feud movie ever made. as vengeance was meted out mechanically in the final showdown of
homefront ,
my thoughts drifted to franco and his small - town loser friends, with sympathy. sure, they’re violent assholes, but their biggest crime in this film is being graceless rednecks with colossal class envy. they want somethin' like what statham got, a big country home and enough downtime to go horseback riding with his daughter instead of busting hump at the quarry or slinging dope. somewhere in the chaos of flames and clashing vehicles, franco mutters a lament along those lines. in the end, as in most films of this type, the dea triumphs in its land war against the peasants, and statham can get back to his life .
but the good news is that the millennium - produced release, which was distributed by summit / lionsgate in the states, earned a whopping $ 88. 2 million - and - counting overseas. that includes a $ 44m running cume in china, giving the 2016 sequel to the 2011 remake a $ 109. 4m worldwide total. that means that the film surpassed the $ 109m worldwide cume of the transporter 3 back in 2008. that means that, so sayeth box office mojo, mechanic: resurrection is statham’s biggest solo action hit ever .
here' s a film that was exactly what i thought it was going to be... a straightforward action thriller with some testosterone - fueled punch - outs, big explosions, solid acting and not a whole lot to think about. jason statham plays former dea agent phil broker, who moves with his 10 - year - old daughter to rural louisiana after the death of his wife. before he can really settle in, local meth maker gator bodine (james franco) discovers his identity and decides to use the information to his own advantage .
pushing the hunger games: catching fire aside after its two weeks at the top spot, disney' s frozen opened with £4. 70m. that' s by no means the top number for an animation this year – despicable me 2 debut gathered £14. 82m, including £4. 87m in previews in june – but it' s a solid start for a film presumed to play to the christmas audience. family films targeting the christmas market have a knack of playing strongly right through until christmas eve, and if the festive association is not too strong can, continue to play beyond that date .
if bosworth proves to be “homefront’s” greatest surprise, sporting a meth addict’s wasted physique and a white - trash stridency that belies an inner canniness, franco qualifies as its biggest disappointment. though he brings a certain snarling menace to gator, he never really sinks his teeth into the role (the way he did with his latter - day big bad wolf character in harmony korine’s “spring breakers”), and whatever private amusement slumming it as a one - dimensional (and not very bright) baddie may have held for the actor, it’s lost on the audience. mostly, franco just seems to be biding his time here, bored with the part and the movie that contains it .
i can' t think of a better actor to deliver a line in a menacing, yet calm way, than jason statham does here. he is one of the contemporary action stars that audiences will go see without hesitation or worrying about the screenplay. the reason is because there are very few actors that can deliver their fight scenes as well as he does. audiences can feel every punch or kick from statham without the need of quick edits or shaky camera movements. unfortunately, the main problem with homefront is that director gary fleder (kiss the girls, runaway jury) didn' t use his action skills as a means to improve the movie, but rather sticked to the usual…
released on a more modest 50 screens, the tighter rollout for kill your darlings doesn' t appear to have done it many favours, with a weak opening just below £39, 000. daniel radcliffe fans who flocked to see him in the woman in black evidently were less enticed by the prospect of him as a young allen ginsberg, with dane dehaan, ben foster and jack huston playing other writers from the beat poet era. independent cinemas playing this film and nebraska were in for a double disappointment. saving mr banks (the gentlest faller in the chart, down 31 %), the butler and philomena continue to offer crossover alternatives .
so how did homefront fare on the business side? well, like red dawn, there was a lot of pre - release buzz and excitement. that was enough to give the game 375, 000 in first - day sales in north america. overall, according to vgchartz, the game has sold about 2. 36 million copies nationwide. that' s not a bad take for a new franchise, but falls well short of sales in other military shooters such as the call of duty or battlefield series, and its pace to that number is a lot slower than other franchise starters such as 2009' s borderlands or 2007' s assassin' s creed. still, that was enough to encourage a sequel, which is currently in development .
for the third weekend in a row, uk box - office is up on the equivalent frame from 2012, on this occasion by an impressive 40 per cent. exactly a year ago, the market was becalmed as it waited for the arrival of the hobbit: an unexpected journey, and top title rise of the guardians was a relative underperformer. history looks likely to repeat itself with the arrival on friday of the hobbit: the desolation of smaug. the film has a sensational 9. 2 / 10 approval rating from the early adopters who have registered their enthusiasm at imdb, and warners must be confident of a strong box - office performance. alternatives include a re - release of cinema paradiso and a festive offering called the christmas candle .
“it’s a bit like appalachia: you can go from two kids in a fistfight to the emergency room real fast, ” advises one concerned citizen in “ homefront, ” a tale of backwoods retribution that resembles roman polanski’s “carnage” transplanted to “deliverance” country, where feuding parents prefer outright war to wars of words. but what sounds like a veritable b - movie wet dream — with that master of the subzero scowl, jason statham, starring in a screenplay written by sylvester stallone — turns out to be considerably less than the sum of its parts: a listless programmer in the “walking tall” mode, minus the ebullient spark of statham’s “crank” and “transporter” franchises and stallone’s own “expendables” pics. offered as thanksgiving counter - programming by distrib open road, the pic may carve up modest biz with the shoot - your - own - turkey crowd, but should be available as a stocking stuffer by christmas .
the ever - prolific stallone (who has “escape plan” still in theaters and “grudge match” due at year’s end) adapted “ homefront ” from a novel by crime writer chuck logan — one in a series featuring the character of ex - minnesota cop phil broker — originally envisioning the project as a starring vehicle for himself before passing the torch to statham, who ably fills the character’s ass - kicking shoes. when we first meet him, broker is an undercover dea agent (by way of interpol, so as to allow for the actor’s brit accent) about to snag a gang of meth - running louisiana bikers, an op that ends with broker’s cover (and several square blocks of shreveport) blown sky - high, and the son of the gang honcho riddled with bullets. (in a wry play on statham’s trademark shaven - headed appearance, the undercover broker sports a long, straggly mane of ’80s - style rocker hair. )
october ended on a winning note, but it was the only time the entire month that 2013 topped 2012 in the year - over - year comparison. this is quite shocking, as gravity crushed expectations with more than $ 200 million and counting. even with that surprise monster hit, the month still couldn' t keep pace with last year. compared to october, november looks a lot better with three films that could be monster hits: frozen, thor: the dark world, and the hunger games: catching fire. on the other hand, those are the only three movies with a 50 / 50 chance or better to top $ 100 million compared, while there were seven films that reached that milestone last november. the hunger games: catching fire should make more than last year' s number one film, skyfall, but the depth last year could prove too much to deal with. 2013 might dip below last year' s pace sometime during the month, but hopefully it won' t stay there too long. more ...
st. louis has a little - known nuclear past as a uranium - processing center for the atomic bomb. government and corporate negligence led to the dumping of manhattan project uranium, thorium, and radium, thus contaminating north st. louis suburbs, specifically in two communities: those along coldwater creek, where residents have high rates of very rare cancers, birth defects, and various autoimmune disorders that are potentially linked to ionizing radiation poisoning; and in bridgeton, adjacent to the west lake - bridgeton landfill, where an uncontrolled subsurface fire has been moving toward an area where the radioactive waste was buried. just moms stl, a group of mothers - turned - advocates, believes their communities are being poisoned and demands that the government either fully remove the waste or permanently relocate residents living nearest the landfill. at the same time, the grassroots organization coldwater creek — just the facts please is working to educate the community and healthcare professionals and to promote community inclusion in the radiation exposure compensation act. “atomic homefront” — from hbo documentary films — spotlights these citizen advocates, mostly women, who have mobilized to get answers, creating a powerful coalition that continues to fight for environmental justice .
movies and tv shows are certified fresh with a steady tomatometer of 75% or higher after a set amount of reviews (80 for wide - release movies, 40 for limited - release movies, 20 for tv shows), including 5 reviews from top critics .
the screenplay for this violent retro schlock was written by sylvester stallone, and the movie feels like something out of the early eighties .
the deeper we go into this story, the more ridiculous the coincidences and plot twists .
everyone cast against type. everyone breathtakingly bad, reciting dialogue by sylvester stallone that begs for a
mute
button .
by making statham a regretful lawman, it neutralizes his main talent, effectively neutering him. it also telegraphs the kind of mostly watered - down movie we' re about to see .
... a summation of action scenes, almost without rhyme or reason. [ full review in spanish ]
what sets the movie apart is the performance of franco. his turn as gator elevates the affair .
statham is not the english clint eastwood yet, but if someone fancied calling him dirty jason... who knows ?
you see the house? that' s my fuckin' house, anyone who comes around it again will find me standin' in it .
you see the house? that' s my fuckin house, anyone who comes around it again will find me standing in it.''
you see the house? that' s my fuckin house, anyone who comes around it again will find me standing in it.'
during a police raid on a drug den, there is sight of criminals being shot. there is also a scene in which a man has to fight off several attackers, resulting in some sight of bloody injuries. at one point a gun goes off during a struggle, causing a woman to fall to the floor with blood on her face and body .
there is frequent of use of strong language (' f * * k and motherf * * ker'), as well some milder bad language (eg' ass',' shit',' bitch') .
in one scene a man and woman engage in rear entry sex against a car .
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transport
packages for unknown clients and has made a very good living doing so. but when asked to move a package that begins moving, complications arise .
phil broker is a former dea agent who has gone through a crisis after his actions against a biker gang went horribly wrong and it cost the life of his bosses son. he is recently widowed and is left with a 9 year old daughter, maddy. he decides to quit the turbulent and demanding life of thrill for maddy' s sake and retires to a small town. his daughter fights off a boy who is bullying her at school, and this sets in motion a round of events that end in his direct confrontation with the local meth drug lord. his past history with the biker gang also enters the arena, making matters more complex. but he has a mission in his mind to protect his daughter and he is ready to pay any cost that it demands .
rated r for strong violence, pervasive language, drug content and brief sexuality .
cyrus hanks has a tattoo of a one percent on the right side of his neck, the same as the one percenters bike gang' s tattoo in the movie 21 jump street (2012) .
' s character is credited as
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but his uniform' s name plate says
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while this may not be a great movie, and it had some boring spots, it definitely delivers on action, what i' m sure most of us came to see. jason statham is bad * * s as usual, kicking a * * and taking names like it' s nobody' s business. james franco is great as the main bad guy. izabela vidovic was also great as statham' s character' s daughter, i can definitely see her appearing in many more movies in the future. i liked how it seems like the whole town is in on something, conspiring against statham' s character for whatever their reasons are, i was really interested to see what was going to happen next. while not perfect, this is pretty much your typical jason statham movie (that' s a good thing), with a nice father - daughter relationship thrown in. worth watching for anyone who enjoys watching jason statham repeatedly beating the crap out of various assorted scumbags .
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jason statham squares off against poor white trash in an old sylvester stallone script that should have stayed on the shelf. twitter
jason statham, james franco and winona ryder star in the script penned by sylvester stallone, originally pitched as the final chapter to the rambo saga .
the ham - fisted script, based on a novel by chuck logan, was written some years ago by none other than sylvester stallone as a prospective final chapter to the rambo saga. the way it' s turned out here is more reminiscent of some bad good - ol' - boy 1976 melodrama that could have starred jan - michael vincent and joe don baker and involved rednecks mightily suspicious of the outsider who' s come to live in their midst .
a couple of years later, broker is living with his bright young 10 - year - old daughter maddy (isabela vidovic) in rural rayville, la (a real town, conveniently just down the road a piece from that hollywood of the south, shreveport). her mother having died the year before, maddy has been receiving self - defense tips from her macho dad, and while he' s trying to figure out whether to settle on an east end or southern accent, she retaliates to bullying from a schoolyard fatso by punching him out .
fatso' s skinny mother cassie (kate bosworth) doesn' t cotton to this at all, even though her kid started it, and when she can' t get her no - account husband (frank grillo) to exact justice, she sics her brother gator on broker, which means trouble since gator is the meanest and wiliest creature in the bayou as well as its most prolific drug dealer .
since his house sits vulnerably in the middle of nowhere and the locals clearly haven' t been taught how to let go of a grudge - - ”can' t you go over there and do something! ? ” cassie screams at her brother—broker mans up and apologizes for his daughter' s brutality. the down - home boys respond to this gentlemanliness by repeatedly trying to beat broker up. this results in a succession of fight scenes—always with multiple guys ganging up on him - - so incoherently staged and shot that you don' t even get a clear view of statham doing what he does best, which is to roll his kick - boxing, martial arts and punching skills into entertainingly bone - crunching mayhem .
stallone' s milking of the child endangerment angle is shameless; this is script - writing by diagram, with cassie and her clan blowing everything preposterously out of proportion just to create a melodramatic threat that will rouse broker to action in protecting his daughter. most of the baddies are such bottom - feeders that you know they pose no real threat and that includes winona ryder' s former biker girl who gets roped into the plot against the two interlopers .
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' s ambitious misstep, the star has some nice, relaxed moments with onscreen daughter izabela vidovic, and gets to fulfil half his audience' s fantasies in wiping the smirk from james franco' s face .
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phil broker has had enough of the demanding duties of a dea agent. he brings his young daughter to a small town, looking for a quiet life. but people in this town, as he learns, don' t easily forgive any past transgressions - - such as when his daughter fights off a bully at school. this attracts the wrath of the bully' s uncle, a meth cooker and dealer, and his gang. things become dicier when people involved in the last major bust he participated in, track him to the small town. but phil has a secret: he' s a dark occult wizard who can wave his hands and bespeak the terrible words of darkest sorcery :
hazafa kyahapp !
and afflict people with the dreaded and fearsome halfa kadapp disease. against such sorceries, mere men are helpless. now phil is angry, and ready to unleash the plague of halfa kadapp disease against those who would try to get at him and his beloved daughter .
dea agent phil broker goes undercover as a biker in a gang led by danny t. after the dea invade the bar the bikers reside in, danny and his son jojo flee. though danny is arrested, jojo is shot by phil and commits suicide by cop. phil later on quits the dea. two years later, phil and his daughter maddy move to a small town, where maddy' s deceased mother grew up, and phil begins a contracting business with his friend teedo. maddy goes to the local school and gets into an altercation with her classmate, teddy klum. maddy breaks teddy' s nose and phil is called in by school counselor susan, along with teddy' s parents cassie and jimmy. phil gets into a fight with jimmy and an enraged cassie asks her brother, the drug dealer morgan bodine, to scare phil .
phil defeats three fo gator' s men at a gas station. gator later on enters phil' s house and steals maddy' s cat and stuffed animal. while searching the house, gator discovers phil to be a former cop and the man responsible for danny' s capture. teddy befriends maddy and is invited to her birthday party, but nevertheless, gator contacts his ex - girlfriend sheryl about broker, who in turn informs danny' s lawyer, who tells an imprisoned danny. cyrus hanks, a hitman for danny' s gang, decides to kill phil. phil confronts gator and later on enters his house, but is captured by gator' s thugs. however, phil escapes and returns to his house, where he asks teedo to help him and maddy escape the town .
cyrus' crew arrives at phil' s house and a fight ensues. maddy is hidden in the basement while phil and teedo take out cyrus' gang. however, teedo is shot by cyrus, who is impaled by phil. maddy is then abducted by sheryl and phil chases after the two using a police car. cassie and sheryl arrive at gator' s warehouse, and a booby trap is set off, causing the warehouse to explode. cassie is shot by gator, who flees onto a bridge, followed by phil. phil' s car flips over and gator uses the opportunity to attempt to shoot him, but is distracted by maddy. phil then defeats gator, but spares his life. gator and sheryl and arrested while cassie and teedo are hospitalized. phil later on visits danny in prison, telling him that when danny gets out, he will be waiting for him .
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homefront is a 2013 american action thriller film directed by gary fleder and released nationwide in theaters on november 27 . based on chuck logan 's novel of the same name and adapted into a screenplay by sylvester stallone , the film stars jason statham , james franco , winona ryder , and kate bosworth . filming began on october 1 , 2012 in new orleans . 
homefront is a 2013 american action thriller film directed by gary fleder and released nationwide in theaters on november 27. based on chuck logan's novel of the same name and adapted into a screenplay by sylvester stallone, the film stars jason statham, james franco, winona ryder, and kate bosworth. filming began on october 1, 2012 in new orleans.
homefront is a 2013 american action thriller film directed by gary fleder and released nationwide in theaters on november 27. based on chuck logan's novel of the same name and adapted into a screenplay by sylvester stallone, the film stars jason statham, james franco, winona ryder, and kate bosworth. filming began on october 1, 2012 in new orleans.