Parker

Jason Statham plays a thief  Parker with a code of integrity who's double crossed  and left for dead by his partners in crime for declining his participation into their next heist.  With the help of a real estate agent played by Jennifer Lopez, he goes after the bad guys.  Not much imagination here and certainly no stretch for Statham. I like Jason Statham, even knowing that his films aren't always the best of the action genre.  But Parker certainly falls very short of my already meager expectations here.  First off, the story is dull from the start and the other actors themselves seem to exude that in their performance.  Secondly, and probably more importantly, Jennifer Lopez should never have been inserted in this film.  A bored and nearly broke real estate agent living at home with her mother and yearning for some new excitement meets the exciting outlaw in Statham and is immediately intrigued.  I didn't buy it, there was no chemistry, and (spoiler alert) there was not even consummation between the two.  The latter was probably a good thing on second thought.  I suppose they were going to try and use Lopez to insert a sort of starry eyed romantic comedy sort of thing to a Statham film, but it doesn't work for the aforementioned reasons.  I mean, if I was bored from the beginning and then you have all this lag time before the romantic comedy genre crashes horribly into a substandard action film, it isn't very long before your waiting for this film to just fucking end.  I couldn't even bring myself to look at the special features on the dvd, namely the one titled "Who is Parker".  I'll tell you who Parker is.  He's the same guy as he was in the Transporter, Snatch, Crank, etc. but this time stuck on a dvd featurette that makes for a better drink coaster.