Final Score (2018)

Directed by Scott Mann. Starring Dave Bautista, Ray Stevenson, Amit Shah, Lara Peake, Pierce Brosnan, Ralph Brown, Alexandra Dinu, Julian Cheung, Bill Fellows, Lucy Gaskell, Martyn Ford. [R]

In what is essentially a knockoff of a knockoff (Die Hard via Sudden Death), Bautista’s gruff, brooding ex-soldier with a soft spot for his deceased best friend’s teenage daughter (Peake) is forced to become a one-man army when Eastern European revolutionaries infiltrate and lock down a London football (soccer) stadium while he and the girl are attending a match. Pretty routine action aside from a ludicrous motorcycle chase through the stadium, and too many “oh, come on” moments spoil the low-rent fun—Bautista is about as unstoppable as the Terminator, and the filmmakers insult the audience’s intelligence by suggesting that plastic explosives can be detonated by shooting them with a bullet. Projects a grey, grubby appearance (presumably for the sake of tough, grim atmosphere), but the effect merely drains the events of color and clarity, mimicking the bored look on the face of Pierce “I’m Here for the Paycheck” Brosnan, whose underwritten character happens to be the reason why villainous Stevenson and his mercenary goons are at the stadium in the first place. Bautista also co-produced.

39/100