Very Disappointed In Action Scenes

That helped ruin the movie for me. That's why Steven Seagal's films are so laughable. This is no different.

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Personally, I wasn't bothered by the fight scenes at all. In fact, I thought they were fairly well choreographed and entertaining. The part I DID find over the top was the huge finale in the Home Depot (or whatever the name of that store was). Of course, the whole idea of one man taking out a huge crime boss and his organization like that (he actually travels to Moscow to kill the "head of the snake") requires a huge suspension of disbelief! It is what it is. Not a great movie but, all in all, I found it to be entertaining.

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I feel the same way but the movie is decent enough just dont think too much.

Can't imagine anybody being disappointed with the scene where Denzel exterminates the thugs in the head thug's office, taking out 5 assassins. Quite a sequence. And he times it. Hard not to like.

To add onto some of the other responses, the men in the officer were not prepared for an actual skilled fight. They perceived him as an easy target and he efficiently killed them all with ease.

This is a master trained killing savant who knows implicitly every nerve and artery to focus on to disable or kill his opponent and how to anticipate an opponents moves and how everything in a room can come into play in a fight (and calculate the physics it will all take like a chess master before he makes any move). AND he knows that the most efficient way of doing things is to use the least amount of energy necessary and take the route most likely to work even if thats a quick "non flashy" way. You have been trained well by hollywood to believe a fight is only good if theres a lot of kicking and punching and running and jumping around. Stick to kung fu movies then.

I kind of liked the notion that this guy was clean and efficient and deadly. And special. Like a machine. He's basically an urban american ninja. Where what he is capable of doing almost looks like magic to us.

So no, I had no problem with him beating guys with guns and knives etc. What got me was how he was so sure he could just walk into very dangerous territory (like the money laundering business or Nicolai's dinner) and not have someone just plug him on site. I had to ask myself "ok why arent they killing him here" on several occasions. But Im fine rationalizing it as "well he takes everything into account so he must have figured out he was somehow safe in that situation". Again, it went with his character and his mystique.

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I didn't mind that part. What I did mind was the crazy inventive ways to kill people. Drill, that is not going to work, who is going to stand still while someone drills into your head for 15 seconds. Sledgehammer, that's too unweildy for someone with those type of skills. Noose, etc. etc.,