First off, the trailer sold this film to me, I'm a whalberg and Peter berg fan.
Having both Iko Uwais and Rhonda rousey made me believe that there would be plenty of fight scenes and to an extent, yes there was and they were great but only by iko. Rousey never throws a punch! No offence to Rhonda but she is not an actress, she can fight and fight well, don't under use someone's talents! Much like the majority of Gina carano films of late. Now I know you shouldn't typecast and we have to give a performer the opportunity to widen their talents but the fact this film could have had her fight but didn't, annoyed me immensely.
The film also suffered from 20 minutes of completely unnecessary character development for whalberg and Cohan that had no point being there .
Overall I'm disappointed for the underusing of rousey I felt as if she should have been in the Cohan role instead . Bad casting
Having both Iko Uwais and Rhonda rousey made me believe that there would be plenty of fight scenes and to an extent, yes there was and they were great but only by iko. Rousey never throws a punch! No offence to Rhonda but she is not an actress, she can fight and fight well, don't under use someone's talents! Much like the majority of Gina carano films of late. Now I know you shouldn't typecast and we have to give a performer the opportunity to widen their talents but the fact this film could have had her fight but didn't, annoyed me immensely.
The film also suffered from 20 minutes of completely unnecessary character development for whalberg and Cohan that had no point being there .
Overall I'm disappointed for the underusing of rousey I felt as if she should have been in the Cohan role instead . Bad casting