Blitz

2011 "It's cop-killer vs. killer-cop"
6.1| 1h37m| R| en| More Info
Released: 23 August 2011 Released
Producted By: Davis Films
Country: United States of America
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A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
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Mjeteconer Just perfect...
Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.
SnoopyStyle Detective Sergeant Tom Brant (Jason Statham) is a hard cop in southeast London willing take anything including a hockey stick to the bad guys. Cops are being targeted. Sergeant Porter Nash (Paddy Considine) is brought in to head the manhunt. He's ridiculed for being gay but finds a supporter in Brant. The killer makes reporter Dunlop (David Morrissey) his contact. Brant and Nash zero in on Barry "Blitz" Weiss (Aidan Gillen) as their suspect. Brant remembers a run-in with him a year ago.This is a hard-boiled cop drama. This wants to be a gritty harsh movie. It does come off as another modern grim British TV cop show with bigger actors. Considine fits right in. Statham seems to be itching to be the Transporter. It wouldn't hurt him to play slightly against type especially in a movie which wants to be taken more seriously. I like the grim tone but Statham may be at cross-purposes.
messages-lc Let's get one thing straight; Jason Statham is the bad guy in this movie.Statham is a hybrid good-guy/bad-guy, but he isn't your likable criminal, a la Porter in Payback; he's a bad cop - a really bad one. He steals from merchants, physically attacks suspects and witnesses while causing SERIOUS bodily harm, barges into private residences without warrants to search and stare-down the occupants, and intimidates the good-guys in internal affairs who actually try to protect the people. Statham's character is exactly the kind of thug psychologists talk about when they say cops and gangsters often share the same psychological profile. He's the worst type of criminal - the kind that exploits a position of power and authority to abuse the helpless - and this movie expects the viewer to empathize with him: impossible.Sure, there's a guy out killing cops that the movie tries to build up as its villain, but this killer was CREATED by Statham's police brutality and the system's unwillingness to bring him to justice. The killer got the idea to kill cops after being beaten half to death in a bar by Statham's character - for a misdemeanor. Statham and other officers literally play the tape back at the station to laugh at Statham's egregious physical abuse of a civilian. If cops are allowed to act like thugs (aka, Jason Statham's character), the murderer starts to look somewhat like a misguided victim of circumstance, or even an anti-hero. He cannot get justice through the legal channels, so, rather than live in fear of future attacks from Statham's character, he takes matters into his own hands.Aiden Gillen's villain/victim is a character with a complex psychological background, a cause that is just in principle (though horribly unjust in execution), and with circumstances that are interesting enough to warrant a camera on his activities. The murderer deserves to be the main character, and he would be if this were a decent movie. Instead, the film remains an amalgam of cop and action movie, with a subtext of condoning extreme police misconduct.Statham's supporting cast acts a little predictably and wooden, and are difficult to empathize with, one-dimensional, and unlikable. This has much more to do with the writing than the actors themselves, but it is definitely a major impediment to the movie's development. One fellow officer berates a man on her first date for saying he'll call, but not telling her EXACTLY when (she accuses him of intentionally keeping her waiting). Another officer unnecessarily chews-out this same beau for dropping her off at home, but not walking her to the door, even as the beau shows up to make sure she's all right. Other scenes add nothing to the movie but filler. A few scenes are entirely unbelievable, such as when a man has a 2-minute death scuffle with an assailant in his apartment, then is beaten to death with a hammer, and none of his neighbors hears. Still, production quality, Jason Statham's action sequences, and the performance of Aiden Gillen bring this stinker up to a 4/10.
Balu Vyamajala This movie released in 2011? really? It seems like 90's one!! A serial killer and cops trying to catch him! come on! how many movies have we seen with same story line! No big deal, watch this too!! thought so and watched it! Only difference you will find in this movie would be, they reveal the Killer in the first scene itself! What? really? Yes, crazy thriller movie with no thrill!! He keeps killing people, everybody including the police knows who is doing it, nobody cares! People will still be investigating! and the kind of investigation they do, I will tell you... its so much better even in Indian serials.. No good action, No good story, No good screenplay. and on top of all boring scenes involving a lady policemen with almost no relation with the actual story! Then what is good? Just that crazy killer! His characterisation is little different with other serials killers! He is fun! that's all!
Leofwine_draca BLITZ is a film with a plot that's all over the place. Ostensibly a Jason Statham-starring actioner, it opens with one of those 'only in the movies' fight sequences in which the Stath takes down an armed street gang who are busy trying to break into a car. As if to put across the message that this is set in the real world rather than the Hollywoodised action world of, say, THE TRANSPORTER, Statham then has to take a browbeating from his superiors and face up to the consequences of his violent act.After a time, the plot begins for real, with a crazed psycho cop-killer on the loose. Said killer is played by GAME OF THRONES's Aiden Gillen in the manner of Ledger playing the Joker, full of wisecracks and irritating mannerisms; I'm not a fan of Gillen in such roles, and prefer him more subtle as Littlefinger. Eventually, Statham gets wise to this guy and starts to hunt him down.The problem with BLITZ is a distinct lack of focus in regards to the plotting. Sometimes, it seems like Statham is a supporting player in his own movie; there's a whole, dragged-out sub-plot involving a female cop by the name of Falls (acted, badly, by Zawe Ashton) who's caught up in her own downward spiral. It has little to do with the serial killer aspect and it goes absolutely nowhere, other than to pad out the running time a little.There are plus points too - Paddy Considine gives a sensitive turn as a gay cop, and there's a nice line in humour sprinkled through. I appreciated the vigilante-themed ending as well. But this is a film that keeps leading you down dead ends, with frustrating sub-plots going nowhere (another is David Morrissey's journalist, again totally extraneous to the story). It makes you feel like a lot was left on the cutting room floor...