Actually, there are a lot more than two guns in this slickly-made action movie.
There are a couple of direct references to the work of the late, great action director Sam Peckinpah (“The Wild Bunch”): a scene in which a band of Mexican banditos do some target practice on chickens buried in the desert sand (“Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid”) and another bandito’s lopped-off head glimpsed in a satchel (“Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia”). But Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur (“Contraband”) amps up the action even more than Peckinpah did. (The screenplay by Blake Masters is based on the appropriately-named Boom!
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 9:45am