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Year:	2011
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Patrick Lussier
Genre:	Cartoon fantasy violence
Starring:	Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner
Rating:	3/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502404/
Tagline:	No tagline
Favourite line:	"Wouldn't wanna be you when Satan finds out!"

Old Horse face is back, this time sporting a spectacular mullet and an even more impressive 'Hellgun."

The plot:
Nic Cage is a haunted man. Having lost his wife and daughter to a cult led my an olive skinned Lothario by the name of Jonah King, he is a man on a mission: to wreak bloody and violent revenge on those that took all that was important to him.

Coming across as part Machete, part Ghost Rider, this is cartoonesque to the point of the redundant.
Smacking as 'based on a graphic novel' even though it ain't no suj fang, this is wantonly over the top and ridiculous, each scene delivered with a knowing wink to the audience: Yeah, this is daft, but it's one heck of a lot of fun, isn't it?
Morally reprehensible - not one character portrayed has any kind of ethical standard or worth - this is excess in the name of entertainment, pure and simple and, for the most part, it works. Hands are lopped off, human femurs are jutted at the 3D screen, blood squirts hither and thither and tither and, the whole time, a vaguely doom metal guitar chugs along in the background, part Sabbath, part Danzig, all red meat.
And by all the Christ's it is violent.
Supremely so.
Utterly preposterous, utterly offensive on so many levels, this is nevertheless entertaining fare, elevated mightily by the august presence known simply as William Fichtner, a man so beautiful to look at and with such on screen charisma he would surely turn even the most homophobic of heads.
Far from perfect, far even from any good, I nevertheless enjoyed this for the duration. Set brain cells to dormant, and enjoy.