I read the reviews for this movie here before I bought it for cheap. Based on the reviews, I was not expecting it to be as good as it was. I am a Stallone fan, so that will influences my review. I watched the first scene or two and turned it off. I thought the movie was going in a direciton that would be boring, so I waited until I was bored to watch the rest of it. I was pleasantly surprised. It was different than I expected, with twists and surprises. The other characters -- good ones and bad ones -- played their roles well. It brought me through a whole range of emotions. The background shots are beautiful; I wish my t.v. screen was larger. This would have been fantastic on the big screen of a movie theater.