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Sabotage

Play trailer Poster for Sabotage R Released Mar 28, 2014 1h 49m Action Mystery & Thriller Crime Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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John "Breacher" Wharton (Arnold Schwarzenegger) leads an elite DEA task force. Its latest mission is a high-stakes raid on a safe house owned by one of the world's deadliest drug cartels. Wharton and his team (Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard, Joe Manganiello) complete the mission successfully but secretly steal $10 million for themselves. They think their work is done -- until, one-by-one, the commandos are mysteriously killed. As the body count rises, everyone becomes a suspect.
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Sabotage boasts one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's finer post-political performances, but it's wasted in a movie driven by grueling violence that punishes seemingly without purpose.

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Noah Berlatsky The Atlantic In Sabotage, the plot is too circuitous to give you that adrenaline rush of fitting finality, especially with all the collateral damage along the way. Aug 28, 2019 Full Review Mark Kermode Observer (UK) Scenes of people kicking doors down and shooting each other in the head are efficiently handled - it's everything else that's a problem. Rated: 2/5 May 11, 2014 Full Review Geoffrey Macnab Independent (UK) It is worth remembering that John Wayne, an actor almost as inexpressive as he is, did much of his finest work at the tail end of his career. Sadly, post-gubernator Arnie hasn't yet found his equivalents to True Grit or El Dorado. Rated: 2/5 May 9, 2014 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Part murder mystery, part cop actioner, and mishandled with a touch of Western justice, the film never finds even footing and stumbles throughout its messy presentation, which is punctuated by bloody violence and a pervasive macho attitude. Rated: 1/4 Aug 15, 2022 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins No matter how intense the action sequences, it all becomes meaningless when the drama is played out over protagonists unworthy of attention. Rated: 2/10 Dec 4, 2020 Full Review Brent McKnight The Last Thing I See Nasty, mean, and appallingly violent at times, "Sabotage" is like a bloodier version of the entire Cannon Films catalog. Rated: B- Jul 8, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis John "Breacher" Wharton (Arnold Schwarzenegger) leads an elite DEA task force. Its latest mission is a high-stakes raid on a safe house owned by one of the world's deadliest drug cartels. Wharton and his team (Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard, Joe Manganiello) complete the mission successfully but secretly steal $10 million for themselves. They think their work is done -- until, one-by-one, the commandos are mysteriously killed. As the body count rises, everyone becomes a suspect.
Director
David Ayer
Producer
Bill Block, David Ayer, Ethan Smith, Paul Hanson, Palak Patel
Screenwriter
Skip Woods, David Ayer
Distributor
Open Road
Production Co
QED International, Open Road Films, Crave Films
Rating
R (Pervasive Language|Drug Use|Some Sexuality/Nudity|Strong Bloody Violence)
Genre
Action, Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 28, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 9, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$10.5M
Runtime
1h 49m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital, DTS
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