In New Orleans, hit man James Bonomo (Sylvester Stallone) kills corrupt cop Hank Greely but lets the hooker live. His partner Louis Blanchard is stabbed to death by killer Keegan (Jason Momoa). Bonomo manages to escape. D.C. police detective Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang) arrives to investigate his former partner Greely's death who had stolen evidence. Kwon contacts Bonomo looking to partner up to find the mastermind of all the killings. Two more corrupt cops try to kill Kwon and he's rescued by Bonomo. Robert Nkomo Morel (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) and Marcus Baptiste (Christian Slater) demand Keegan to finish the job before a dirty government contract is revealed. Bonomo takes Kwon to his tattoo artist daughter Lisa (Sarah Shahi) to stitch him up.It's an old fashion Stallone action crime drama. The problem is that Stallone is an old worn out version of himself and Sung Kang is not a particularly good partner. Without better chemistry, there is no rooting interest and the bullets whizzing by become meaningless.

Sylvester Stallone and director Walter Hill abandon their walking canes to make one brutal action film set in New Orleans called 'Bullet to the Head', even though it's silly, brainless, and laughable. This action flick packs a hard punch, but fails in story, character, acting, and dialogue. But what do you expect from two guys who are around 70 years of age, who are making and starring in films that involve a climax with battle axes.Walter Hill is known for his films from the 80s, such as '48 Hours', 'Another 48 Hours', 'Red Heat', and 'The Warriors'. I guess you can say that this is Hill's re- imagining of '48 Hours' minus Nolte and Murphy, as the film focuses on not a buddy cop film, but rather a henchman/cop buddy film where one part of the duo is the older and wiser guy, and the other is a young rookie type who learns from the "master", complete with ethnic jokes and animosity.You know you're in for a B-Movie ride as soon as the opening credits and logos start as a large bullet comes flying through each credit and logo at the audience. We center on Jimmy Bobo (Stallone), an assassin for hire who has seen every scenario and been around the block more than a dozen times, but can still take on several enemies at once with ease. Bobo and his partner Louis (Jon Seda) are on a job for hire to kill their subject, as they do, but soon after, they figure out they were set up and Louis is stabbed repeatedly by a large and menacing mercenary for hire known as Keegan (Jason Mamoa from 'Game of Thrones'). Now Bobo wants revenge and ends up pairing up with out-of-town police detective Taylor Kwan (Sung Kang), who is in town to investigate a murder of his former police partner, which just happens to be the same guy Bobo and Louis killed earlier.After a few clues here and there, and a few brutal beat downs and deaths, we find out that this murder conspiracy set-up goes all the way to the top politically and socially with big pay-offs and secret bank accounts. You can pretty much see where it goes from here. There are a lot of shoot outs,fights, car chases, which all lead to an abandoned factory where the climax of the flick takes a turn with not only tons of bullets, but two very large battle axes. It was quite the spectacle for sure.Stallone still proves he can tussle with the young action stars and still sells his epic punches. Every punch and kick, every head smashed in, and every gun shot was extremely loud and impressive. It's as if the sound engineers knew that this film was terrible and decided to turn the sound effects to 11. I mean, I felt every hit and every shot fired as if it were happening to me. That's how intense the sound is and is quite possibly the best part of the film.As for the acting, it's some of the worst I've seen for a while now. Stallone's face shows no expression whatsoever, it's as if he's a wax stand in that talks. As for Kang, I've seen him do decent work, but here, he just phones it in completely. What a let-down. The only decent actor among the bunch was an over-the-top Christian Slater who plays a slime ball and has some funny dialogue. Mamoa is good, but he rarely speaks. And the dialogue is so bad, it's good, with every line that made myself and the audience laugh out loud, especially with lines like "You had me at f*ck you." It's cringe worthy.The fight choreography is pretty good with some powerful martial arts moves and high flying stunts at times with some fun weapons. By no means is this a quality film. Yes it will keep your attention, and yes it most likely entertain you to the point of laughter, but I don't think that was 'Bullet to the Head's' intention. I think they were trying to make a gritty, violent action crime film with a hint of comedic dialogue, but instead it came across as a foolish, unintelligent, silly buddy cop film with some decent fighting. So yes it's entertaining to a degree, but not worth the time on the big-screen. And whoever's decision it was to have Stallone narrate the entire length of the movie, should not be able to make decisions anymore. You just can't understand what they guy says anymore.

When it comes to brutality, you can go too far -- and they have gone it.It's got everything an action movie fan would want. First, there is Sly Stallone with his shirt off, only this time he's covered with tattoos. Next, there is the mild-mannered minority cop, Sung Kang, who teams up with hit man Stallone in order to find a smiling, high-echelon gangster who runs organized crime in Crescent City (ie., New Orleans). The gangster's chief muscle man who does the wet work is Jason Momoa, a heap of sarcomeres, who wipes out an entire room of people in cold blood. There's a delicious young brunette, Stallone's daughter, who is also tattooed, but not all over.The are gun shots galore, knifings, car chases, an explosion that destroys a fishing cabin and the dozen men inside. Plenty of mano a mano fights, it goes without saying. I gave up watching when Momoa abducted Stallone's daughter after decking two men. I didn't mind the abduction. It's just that Momoa is allowed to use the hoary device of bumping his head against somebody else's head in order to knock the enemy out. It's a violation of Newton's third law. I don't know much about physics but I know what I like.Stallone now has a neck the girth of a telephone pole and a raspy voice that can drop to such a low frequency that it can be heard only by elephants. He did a professional job in "Cop Land." It's a little sad to see how retrograde this film is.

The story is really quite enjoyable. The presented plot really can encompass what will happen if the characters combine the police resources with the hit man approach. It sure does not feel like the average action movie, being that it feels slightly below par. The action sequences are being anticipated easily considering that the movie builds up moderately and evenly before each sequences. That takes away the thrill of surprise from the action sequences. That said, it's also very noticeable that the flow is also very monotonous, using a supposedly roller coaster like flow of highs and lows. But the end result proves not to well. The acting overall is also not so good. Stallone's acting is quite a standard job, having the action only rely on close up shots and fast durations of medium or longer distanced shots. Sung Kang's acting is worse than in Fast & Furious roles whereas this is quite a considerable leap in the character's significance, going from a supporting character to a sidekick.