Detective Sergeant Tom Brant (Jason Statham) is a hard cop in southeast London willing take anything including a hockey stick to the bad guys. Cops are being targeted. Sergeant Porter Nash (Paddy Considine) is brought in to head the manhunt. He's ridiculed for being gay but finds a supporter in Brant. The killer makes reporter Dunlop (David Morrissey) his contact. Brant and Nash zero in on Barry "Blitz" Weiss (Aidan Gillen) as their suspect. Brant remembers a run-in with him a year ago.This is a hard-boiled cop drama. This wants to be a gritty harsh movie. It does come off as another modern grim British TV cop show with bigger actors. Considine fits right in. Statham seems to be itching to be the Transporter. It wouldn't hurt him to play slightly against type especially in a movie which wants to be taken more seriously. I like the grim tone but Statham may be at cross-purposes.

Cop action movie with Jason Statham. Been there, done that. I mean that you know exactly what you are going to get. Statham the super nasty good cop that can't be touched by anything and that acts like a smart ass all the time. If you like that kind of cliché then you won't get disappointed. It's always the same thing with him. The other actors were not that bad, it's just a random movie, good enough to kill time. The story itself isn't that great at all either. It's all been done before and even a lot better then this time. There are a couple of times where you can't help yourself then to say "please" out loud. I saw Blitz once and I won't watch it ever again.

Now there has been a lot of Jason Statham action films over the years some good and some bad but this one fits in the middle as distinctly average. This story sees Stathams character looking for a cop killer called the blitz. Now Statham is really good in this film doing his best to combine the action and humour that he is really good at and he is easily the best part of the film which is no shock. The rest of the cast is not great though, now aiden Gillen is a good actor and he does a villain well and this film is really no different with his performance being pretty memorable. Stathams detective partner and the female cop aren't very convincing and there story plots especially the female cops is completely unnecessary and a complete waste of time. We do get a nice cameo from Luke Evans but it is not enough to make up for the overall cast. The story is pretty terrible to be honest with the main story being incredibly simplistic and the reasoning behind everything was not really explained. Also it spent way too much on the secondary story and I hated it. The script is okay with most of Stathams lines being funny and gillans being creepy but the rest was very simplistic and nothing really to it. The style is a bit of a mixed bag with the backgrounds being exactly the same as a lot of films and it does nothing new. But I do give this film credit for the fact that it was willing to show more violent action. Overall this is just an average film and unless you enjoy Statham films you can miss it.

This may get better as it rolls along and a plot develops. I wouldn't know. I shouldn't really be leaving a comment because I only watched the five-minute opening scene and the credits.But if I can't tell you how it ends, I can give you some idea of how it begins. Jason Statham is a tall, brawny, bald-shaven brute with a mean expression. He's lying on his couch one night, looking bored, rises and glances out his window to see three hoodlums trying to force open the door of his car in the alley.Cut. Statham strides slowly towards the thugs, carrying what he describes to them as a "hurling stick." They begin to spit curses at him and pull box cutters on him. They've never seen a dumb action movie or they'd know this is a big mistake.Statham demolishes them with his stick and when they're on the pavement, groaning in pain, he kicks them and deliberately stabs a hood with his own box cutter. "Next time you pick a fight, choose the right weapon." The credits follow -- white block letters on a black background, spastic, dancing around, jumpy, manically mad.That was enough for me. I'd already gotten the moral message. From now on, action heroes will have to be practically illiterate -- and very bald and sweaty.