Homefront

Name: Homefront
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime
Released: November 27, 2013
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 40
Cast: Clancy Brown, Frank Grillo, James Franco, Jason Statham, Kate Bosworth

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Open Road Films | Release Date: November 27, 2013 | R

Starring: Clancy Brown, Frank Grillo, James Franco, Jason Statham, Kate Bosworth, Rachelle Lefevre, Winona Ryder

Summary: A former DEA agent moves his family to a quiet town, where he soon tangles with a local meth druglord.

Director: Gary Fleder

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 100 min

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The Playlist Gabe Toro

Nov 26, 2013

Ultimately of course, this is Statham’s show, and as always he doesn’t disappoint. Read full review

The Guardian Mike McCahill

Dec 9, 2013

[Jason Statham] has some nice, relaxed moments with onscreen daughter Izabela Vidovic, and gets to fulfil half his audience's fantasies in wiping the smirk from James Franco's face. Read full review

Rex Reed

Nov 27, 2013

Statham and Franco, both well-known sleepwalkers on camera, seem more animated than usual. Suspend belief, and you’ll find Homefront predictable but entertaining. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Nov 27, 2013

The basic ingredients of a throwback action movie are all there; what’s missing is action and style. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Nov 27, 2013

A thoroughly boilerplate bayou actioner, with one notable feature. It’s got good villains – nasty, delirious, stupid villains, among them Franco and Ryder – and for that it’s almost worth seeing. Almost. Read full review

Scott Bowles

Nov 26, 2013

Homefront is what "Breaking Bad" may have resembled had Sylvester Stallone written the TV show. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Nov 26, 2013

A disappointing mess of a genre flick. Read full review

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Petea

Sep 11, 2021

Amazing just like if James Bond and Indiana Jones met like actually amazing

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Meth-dude

Mar 15, 2015

The acting is pretty good and the action sequences are intense.Unfortunately for the movie he is predictable and there is not a lot of action.Plus,they try to make us think that there will be a big final fight between Jason and James but he just punch him a couple of times and it's over.

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lukechristiansc

Mar 20, 2015

Sylvester Stallone's screenplay of a Chuck Logan film adaptation is rising at it's own bad ass level. We know that Jason Statham likes to be on the "action genre," he wouldn't even care if the script is a mediocre or it sucks! he wouldn't care he just loves the action. In "Homefront" aSylvester Stallone's screenplay of a Chuck Logan film adaptation is rising at it's own bad ass level. We know that Jason Statham likes to be on the "action genre," he wouldn't even care if the script is a mediocre or it sucks! he wouldn't care he just loves the action. In "Homefront" a former agent moves to this town with his daughter, he doesn't know what he is getting himself into! then he tangles with a meth dealer (James Franco), if there is one we love is how director Gary Fleder makes Statham looks wild and crazy on the camera, with the camera. The film can be entertaining ah the daughter is annoying and there can be times when characters are just to dumb. Grade B… Expand

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Tss5078

Jun 29, 2014

When you combine Action with Drama, you had better have a damn good story to go along with the tremendous fight scenes and wild chases, or else you get a film that falls flat. We all know that at this point, Jason Statham is the best Action star you could have, but the jury was out on howWhen you combine Action with Drama, you had better have a damn good story to go along with the tremendous fight scenes and wild chases, or else you get a film that falls flat. We all know that at this point, Jason Statham is the best Action star you could have, but the jury was out on how effect he could be in a more dramatic role. In Home Front, Statham plays a retired undercover D.E.A. agent, who has recently become a single father. He and his daughter have moved from the big city to the small town, which his late wife called home, in the hopes of building a better life. Everything was going as planned until his daughter, stood up to a bully at school, and embarrassed the son of one the towns most influential families. The simple misunderstanding between children quickly escalates into an all out war, which will force Statham to use everything he learned in the D.E.A. to protect his daughter and his new home. Once again, Jason Statham was terrific in this film. It is mind boggling and seems to be impossible, but every film this man does is better than the one before it. He is on a winning streak, the likes of which I have never seen. Statham was terrific, but oddly, he's paired with an actor who doesn't have much experience playing the bad guy and it showed. James Franco plays Gator Bodine, a small time hood and drug trafficker, who goes after Statham with everything he's got, the only problem is, Bodine really isn't that bad a guy. In fact, when Franco starts cursing and playing all tough, it's almost laughable, not to mention the fact that he doesn't have a tenth of the fighting skills that Statham has. Being that this was a big budget film, Written by Sylvester Stallone (Rocky), Directed by Gary Fleder (Kiss The Girls, Runaway Jury), and starting the best action star in the game (Jason Statham), it's very peculiar that they would choose a bad guy, who is best known as a comedic actor. While the story was great, Franco simply can not match up with Statham at all. Homefront has almost everything you could want in a Thriller, but the lack of a strong, believable opponent, really calls into question just how believable the film is and makes it somewhat predictable.… Expand

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bfoore90

Aug 29, 2016

If you like seeing Jason Statham perform many feats of asskickery than this film is for you. The story isn't much and James Franco provides a rather menacing performance as the main antagonist.

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MovieGuys

Aug 22, 2015

This movie will probably be a forgettable entry in Statham's film legacy, but it gets the job done in terms of action and eye candy on screen. As for James Franco as a villain, it is hard to take him seriously.

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2ksnipefest

Dec 1, 2013

Even the preview is not worth watching. James franco is overated as an actor. Action movies were better in the 90's. Newer ones are usually boring and predictable.

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