Rent Sabotage (2014)
3.0 of 5 from 205 ratings
1h 45min
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- Synopsis:
- Action legend Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
- Actors:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard, Joe Manganiello, Josh Holloway, Max Martini, Kevin Vance, Mark Schlegel, Ned Yousef, Mireille Enos, Maurice Compte, Martin Donovan, Michael Monks, Nick Chacon, Tim Ware, Gary Grubbs, B.J. Winfrey, Kendrick Cross, Hakim Callender, Troy Garity
- Directors:
- David Ayer
- Producers:
- David Ayer, Bill Block, Paul Hanson, Palak Patel, Joe Roth, Albert S. Ruddy, Ethan Smith, Skip Woods
- Writers:
- Skip Woods, David Ayer
- Studio:
- Lionsgate Films
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 15/09/2014
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Alternate Endings
- Deleted Scenes
- Making 'Sabotage'
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Reviews (3) of Sabotage
Old school OTT action film - Sabotage review by AER
If you are planning to watch Sabotage, you probably already know what to expect. One of the characters refers to a meeting of Arnold Schwarzenegger's team of crack DEA agents as a 'bro-down'. The whole film is a bad-taste 'bro-down' with insane levels of male-posturing and action. There is an element of realism to the film as it's more Heat than Expendables, and there are some cheap thrills to enjoy. The central mystery keeps you watching and it has value as a whodunnit, and the final action sequences are breathtaking. This makes The Expendables look like a cartoon - however, that's not a recommendation. Terrence Howard is utterly wasted BTW.
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Boring and distasteful - Sabotage review by Alphaville
Looking old and bored, Arnold Schwarzenegger slums it in a guns-and-macho-posturing Z-feature – a misogynistic gung-ho movie that hits all the wrong notes. It opens with a man torturing a woman. It flashes back to a sleazy party with topless hookers. It’s badly written in terms of both plot and dialogue, which mostly consists of gratuitous swearing. It’s directed with all the pizzazz of a TV drama. As for Arnie’s clichéd clinch with the younger Olivia Williams, it’s enough on its own to justify the MeToo movement. Those American critics who found merit in this irredeemably nasty David Ayer film need to take a good look at themselves.
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Gritty Action Film - Sabotage review by GI
It opens with a torture scene and doesn't let up from there. This is a full on macho ultraviolent action film and it is really great fun as it rattles along at breakneck speed. When Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to films after his stint in politics he found his style of action movie was on the wane and films like the Expendable series, the Stallone throw away Escape Plan (2013) and starring roles in The Last Stand (2013) failed to make any impression. Then Sabotage came along and it sort of tapped into what we expect from an Arnie actioner but still feeling quite fresh. He plays Breacher, the head of an elite DEA tactical team. After a large amount of drug cartel cash goes missing during a raid Breacher and his team fall under suspicion of having stolen it. With no proof of their guilt they are returned to duty but then, one by one, they start showing up dead. The murders are investigated by Olivia Williams' Homicide detective and the cartels are suspected but soon she thinks the evidence implicating them may have been planted. If you like gunplay, chases, and gritty realistic action then this is one to check out. Good support cast too with Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard and Mireille Enos - particularly good as a full on nasty piece of work! It's what you expect from a Schwarzenegger film and whilst there's big flaws in the story and possibly the ending is a step too far this is worth checking out.
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Critic review
Sabotage review by George Hooper - Cinema Paradiso
David Ayers’ films usually look at the inherent corruption or political aspects of a department of law enforcement and while End of Watch is a perfect example of the liabilities of beat cops under the guise of a police thriller. Sabotage however is a weaker film as it doesn’t have this subtext to rely on as the film revolves around a relatively closed off group of DEA agents whose devotion to the law isn’t quite as upstanding as the End of Watch idea of cops Ayers previously presented.
The film follows Breacher (Arnold Schwarzenegger), an elite DEA officer whose team of top notch tactical officers are responsible for some huge drug busts. When they rob a cartel the team is double crossed by one of their own who takes the money first. As members of the team start slowly dying in different ways they realise that someone is picking off members of the team from, either by members of the cartel or someone on their own team. Together with Caroline (Olivia Williams), the detective assigned to the case Breacher must find the person taking down their team and put them down.
While the film isn’t tightly plotted it is a whole lot of fantastical fun as it messes with the concept of heroes and villains as it presents a team just as culpable for their own failures as their successes. As they track their elusive hunter you wonder whether or not their deserve to find them, a question that only becomes more clear as the film goes on. Not only does the film proceed to turn you against its characters it also makes them swap personas on a whim as Sam Worthington’s Monster turns from hardened militia man to full blown useless cry baby in a matter of a few scenes. The whole thing is beyond a little preposterous.
Although it has its problems it is filmed in a very intimate and gritty way that highlights the films bloody tones and presents the action in a way that hasn’t been done before. Ayers manages to infuse the film with a sense of class and beauty despite the lapses in story and Schwarzenegger seems to be lapping up his career resurgence bringing life to Reacher despite the fact that on paper, he is nothing more than a bruiser looking for blood.