Film 45 - Sabotage

Sabotage - 8/05/2014

I think the last time I watched a Schwarzenegger film at the cinema, it was 1994 and he was playing Harry Tasker in True Lies.  He lost his headliner status a few years ago, and evident from the amount of people in the cinema for opening night, he has never gained it back.

From the writer of Training Day and End of Watch, David Ayer brings Schwarzenegger back as head of a team of elite DEA undercover specialists.  When $10m goes missing from a drug bust and members of his team start to fall foul of some serious accidents, fingers start to point away from the drug cartel the money was stolen from to the within the team itself.  Is someone taking out their teammates just for the money?

The style of Training Day is evident here, Sabotage is ultra violent, stylish and ugly.  How this was granted a 15 certificate is beyond me, the gore is graphic, the blood is spilled on a regular basis and gratuitous.

Loosely based on Agatha Christies, "and Then There Were None", it is a question of "who is betraying who and why?" although I did kind of guess the outcome from the very beginning.

This is another film to add the The Governators list of meh films, he should just stick to cameos in the Terminator Series (although CGI!) and The Expendables.