Homefront

    Homefront
    2013

    Synopsis

    Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his action against a biker gang went horribly wrong and it cost the life of his boss' son. He is recently widowed and is left with a 9-years-old daughter, Maddy. He decides to quit the turbulent and demanding life of thrill for Maddy's sake and retires to a small town. His daughter fights off a boy who was bullying her at school and this sets in motion a round of events that end in his direct confrontation with the local Meth drug lord. His past history with the biker gang also enters the arena, making matters more complex. But he has a mission in his mind to protect his daughter and he is ready to pay any cost that it demands.

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    Cast

    • Jason StathamPhil Broker
    • James FrancoMorgan 'Gator' Bodine
    • Izabela VidovicMaddy Broker
    • Winona RyderSheryl Marie Mott
    • Rachelle LefevreSusan Hetch
    • Kate BosworthCassie Bodine Klum
    • Clancy BrownSheriff Keith Rodriguez
    • Frank GrilloCyrus Hanks
    • Christa CampbellLydia
    • Omar Benson MillerTeedo

    Recommendations

    • 67

      The Playlist

      Ultimately of course, this is Statham’s show, and as always he doesn’t disappoint.
    • 50

      Chicago Sun-Times

      This is a well-made thriller traveling over awfully familiar turf.
    • 45

      Film.com

      Only completists need check in with Homefront. The rest of us can just stay home.
    • 38

      Slant Magazine

      The material plays out like a particularly busy episode of Sons of Anarchy, possessing a peculiar joylessness that's anathema to the success of films like this.
    • 38

      McClatchy-Tribune News Service

      The Jason Statham vehicle Homefront is such a generic tough-guy-against-the-odds ’80s style actioner that you’d swear Sly Stallone starred in it. He did, back in the day. Or versions of it. This one, Stallone just scripted.
    • 38

      Chicago Tribune

      Line to line, Stallone has a particularly numbing penchant for the f-word. But the key f-word in Homefront is "familiar."
    • 38

      Miami Herald

      Homefront is done in by uninspired action scenes in which Statham’s athletic prowess is rendered unwatchable by hyper-editing, a shameful reliance on child-in-peril cliches to move the story forward, and so many loose ends that you wonder if 20 minutes were accidentally cut out from the movie.
    • 30

      Variety

      What sounds like a veritable B-movie wet dream — with that master of the subzero scowl, Jason Statham, starring in a screenplay written by Sylvester Stallone — turns out to be considerably less than the sum of its parts.

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