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Essentially a head-on collision between a gritty cop drama and an over-the-top slasher film that leaves no survivors, "Sabotage" is a genuinely weird movie in most respects but unfortunately, it isn't so much interesting-weird as it is "What in God's name were they thinking?"–weird.
Mar 28, 2014 · 21% Tomatometer 113 Reviews 36% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings John "Breacher" Wharton (Arnold Schwarzenegger) leads an elite DEA task force. Its latest mission is a high-stakes raid on a safe ...
- (113)
- David Ayer
- R
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Mar 28, 2014 · Sabotage: Directed by David Ayer. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Joe Manganiello, Josh Holloway. Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house.
- (66K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- David Ayer
- 2014-03-28
Written by David Ayer and Skip Woods, SABOTAGE does look promising with a nifty concept that mixes Ayer's trademark gritty cop thriller with Agatha Christie-like whodunit structure (particularly her famous novel of And Then There Were None).
- And then there were none.
- Verdict
By Jim Vejvoda
Posted: Mar 27, 2014 10:00 pm
This is as close as Arnold Schwarzenegger will ever get to being in an Agatha Christie movie.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest release, Sabotage, is the best movie he's done in years. Patterned after Agatha Christie's classic "And Then There Were None," Sabotage follows an elite DEA special ops team led by Arnold who start getting picked off one by one after their $10 million in stolen drug cartel money goes missing. Is this the revenge of the cartel or is there a traitor in their midst?
The trailers have sold Sabotage as a hell's bells action movie, whereas it's really a mystery thriller. And a character-driven one at that. Every character is shady; not even Arnold's protagonist "Breacher" is a full-on hero. Some of these DEA agents are drug addicts themselves, they will flat-out kill bad guys rather than arrest them, and they are all guilty of stealing drug money.
This really is unlike anything Arnold's done before. The first time we see him in this movie he has his head in his hands, sobbing and helpless. Arnold really does commit to it and it's good to see him try to do something so different at this stage in his career. Unfortunately, try as he might, he's just not a strong actor when compared to the cool ensemble writer-director David Ayer has surrounded him with.
Sabotage is far more effective than its action-centric trailers have suggested, with the film more a mystery-thriller that actually offers Arnold Schwarzenegger and the cool ensemble a chance to act and not just shoot guns.
Extremely violent Schwarzenegger flick with drugs, language. Read Common Sense Media's Sabotage review, age rating, and parents guide.
Mar 28, 2014 · Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA) • 1 Nomination. Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house.
