Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Never be expected too much about something, but this movie was more than i expected. i think that i am now a big fan of ryan reynolds, not because of his look ( i bet it's around 60%), but he did a great job during this film. how many films made with the combination of comedy and action, and how many of those are success? it's from each person's opinions, and i have to admit that this movie is a kind of success.

This was the best movie i have seen ever. Everything was lit. Action/Humour EVERYTHING.

This movie was good. I'm not a film critic(thank god) just a regular person. It was comical and action packed.

Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) was once a big-timer in the security world, running a private protection agency guarding big-name clients. Unfortunately, one of his clients is assassinated, and Bryce hits rock bottom afterward, desperately trying to rebuild his reputation and his business, reduced to being a personal bodyguard to whoever will pay him. Suddenly appears Darius Kincaid, an imprisoned assassin who's been offered a deal to testify at an international court in The Hague against a former dictator on trial for human rights abuses. Interpol turns out to be compromised and, realizing that they can't safely get Kincaid to The Hague, they hire Bryce to do the job for them. And the story goes on from there.In one sense it's an entirely formulaic action-adventure movie. There's lots of gunfire and car chases and explosions. There are a lot of seedy people following Bryce and Kincaid. From the perspective of that genre, if you've seen one you've seen this. It's also a comedy. As a comedy, it's a little better than it is as an action-adventure. It did manage to raise a couple of chuckles out of me, and the concluding car chase through The Hague is actually a pretty good example of both action-adventure and comedy. In fact, while perhaps a little bit long, it's clearly, to me, the highlight of the entire movie. Of course, we end up in a pretty typical countdown, as Kincaid has to be at the court in The Hague by no later than 5 pm or the dictator goes free. (It's actually pretty hard to believe that a war crimes trial would be brought against a guy when apparently the only hope of convicting him is through the testimony of a professional assassin - but you do have to stretch logic in these kinds of movies.)The performances in this were so-so. Reynolds didn't really stand out to me. Jackson seemed to put a lot of effort into it, but also wasn't a standout. I was most impressed (insert sarcasm emoji here) by the writers, who tried really hard to put the word f$!k (or variation) into a single sentence as many times as possible and as often as possible for Jackson's character of Kincaid.At the beginning of the movie Bryce tells us that his company's motto is "Boring Is Always Best." Not really. Frankly, I found much of this movie (up to the car chase in The Hague) to be boring - and it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen. To be honest, it simply wasn't very memorable. The exciting (and sometimes funny) car chase helped out, though. (4/10)