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The Pitch: “Hey, Sly has a great action screenplay that he was gonna use for Rambo available.  It’s based on a book by Chuck Hogan.  Sly says Jason Statham is up for the lead.”

“Let’s do it!”

 

The Tagline:  “How far would you go to protect your home?”

The Overview:  Jason Statham plays Phil Broker, a retired under-cover DEA agent who moved to rural Louisiana to raise his 9 year old daughter after the death of his wife.  When his daughter bloodies the nose of a class bully (who happens the be the child of the local meth dealer) things quickly escalate and Statham’s past as a DEA agent becomes known. Soon an outlaw motorcycle gang and local thugs are both looking for revenge.

*** Beware – minor spoilers can be found below ***

The Good:

• The cast.  Kate Bosworth kills in her role as, Cassie Bodine Klum, a redneck, methhead who is used to getting her way thanks to her brother being the local “Walter White.”  James Franco as “Gator” Bodine is surprisingly effective in a role that wouldn’t at first seem to fit him.  Winona Ryder, Clancy Brown and Chuck Zito all make welcome appearances.  Jason Statham is of course Jason Statham (that’s good).

• Broker does his best to avoid trouble, but there is a line he won’t cross and God help you if you cross it!
• The fight scenes and the fact that they avoided Statham giving “wise-cracks.”
• Broker mistakenly thinks that Jimmy Klum is behind the threats to him.

 

The Bad:

• What happens when you don’t let Broker finish filling his tank.
• When you are a friend of Broker’s and go to pick up his horses.
• If you’re the class bully and you decide to pick on Broker’s daughter.
• Being married to Cassie Bodine Klum.

 

The Ugly:

• One of Gator Bodine’s thugs ankles after Broker has had enough.
• When you raise your gun towards dozens of cops who are armed, hyped up and have warned you to drop it.
• That Homefront is doing better at the box office.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Here’s overseas poster for Homefront!