Quickie Review: A retired professional hit-man is forced-out of retirement when his mentor gets captured. A failed rescue attempt makes the assassin strike a hostage deal with an Arab oil sheik who wants revenge on the British SAS agents that killed his three sons.
I liked it enough since I'm usually a "sucker" for "Based on a True Story" type of movies. And a man sitting in the row behind mine was obviously entertained by it.
Here are the things that I found wrong about it: In the Mexican assassination, their get-away car didn't get any bullet holes at all--not even one! Can you really book a spur-of-the-moment-flight that quickly? I've said this before and I'll say it again: In a kill-or-be-killed unarmed combat there are no rules so fight "dirty" to end it quick because the first one to use a "dirty" move usually walks away alive. Why didn't the bad guy in the subway retrieve his gun when he had the chance or, better yet, why didn't he have a concealed back-up gun, considering the profession that he was in? Before he threw the briefcase full of money down to the desert sand, he closed it. But a later shot showed money strewn all over the sand.
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