Sabotage

Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as John “Breacher” Wharton—veteran leader of a dauntless squad of grubby undercover DEA agents—who discovers, after effectively hiding $10 million skimmed from a raid on a Mexican drug cartel safe house, that someone has heisted the cash. During the official FBI inquiry, the team is suspended from duty, and by the time Breacher re-assembles his eccentric group, they've all grown suspicious and resentful of one another. The members include “Grinder” (Joe Manganiello), “Neck” (Josh Holloway), “Sugar” (Terrence Howard), “Pyro” (Max Martini), and “Tripod” (Kevin Vance), along with impulsive, substance-abusing couple Lizzy (Mireille Enos) and “Monster” (Sam Worthington). Chomping on a massive cigar, Breacher vows vengeance, but then one-by-one, the members start to die: one is killed when his motor home is parked on a railroad line and demolished by a train; another is nailed to the kitchen ceiling in a crucifixion pose. Meanwhile, resolute Breacher, who is coping with a guilty memory from his own brutal past, grows closer to skeptical Caroline Brentwood (Olivia Williams), an Atlanta homicide investigator. Confusing, yet also oddly predictable, director David Ayer's Sabotage (reputedly inspired by Agatha Christie's classic mystery And Then There Were None) is a ghastly and gruesome film that eschews both logic and reason, instead serving up repellent doses of extreme violence and dismemberment. A flimsy, testosterone-fueled vehicle that will hopefully be no more than a quickly forgotten pit stop on Schwarzenegger's mucho-macho comeback tour, this is optional, at best. [Note: DVD/Blu-ray extras include deleted scenes (17 min.), a “making-of” featurette (9 min.), and trailers. Exclusive to the Blu-ray release are alternate endings (11 min.), and bonus DVD, digital, and UltraViolet copies of the film. Bottom line: a decent extras package for a forgettable movie.] (S. Granger)