The movie fails to live up to the sum of its parts.

The film is a contrivance, as artificial as the video games Japanese teens play in a nightclub sequence, but it's an enjoyable one.

Reno does what he can in a thankless situation, the film ricochets from humor to violence and back again, and Ryoko Hirosue makes us wonder if she is always like that.

There's little tension as Reno's character is one of those invincible heroes that we haven't seen much of since the '80s.