For what it’s worth, Richet crafts an exhilarating late-summer programmer with more highs than it has lows. For fans, and you know who you are, go ahead and climb aboard.

At best, this umpteenth entry in the Statham cannon feels like a throwback to a time when all that was needed to get butts in seats was plenty of butt-kicking on screen.

Watching Mr. Statham fight is slightly entertaining, but there has to be more than that to constitute a movie.

Sadly, this Jason Statham vehicle fails to match his usual entertaining action theater. Only one fight is memorable and the film gets going too late for the genre demands.