Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Eric266 I thought this movie would just be a really bad knockoff of Gran Torino and Death Wish (the first one). I expected poor production values and terrible acting. Incredibly, it has a great story, a likeable hero, and a fun plot. As long as you can suspend belief that 68-year old Trejo can beat up all these much younger thugs.Trejo is Frank Vega, a aimless Vietnam vet, who intervenes on a bus ride when two skin heads start harassing an old man. Someone films it and he becomes an internet sensation known as "Bad Ass". After moving into his recently deceased mom's house, he finds out his best friend has been murdered. Vega decides to look into the crime because the police are doing nothing. Along the way, he meets his new neighbors, a pretty mom in an abusive relationship with a smart mouthed son. Vega deals out justice along the way and the fight scenes are ALMOST believable. I really liked this movie because it had a nice, easy going feel about it, but it also didn't try to be a clone of other revenge movies. The one big drawback to it, which isn't even a problem with THIS movie. Its the sequels. They added Danny Glover and ramped up the comedy, so the Vega character from this movie is completely unrecognizable. The sequel should have been called Geritol Weapon and completely remove any reference to Frank Vega. I accidentally watched Bad Asses on the Bayou (the second sequel) first so my introduction to the character was middling at best. Then I watched the original and I am so disappointed in how they treated the character in the sequels. It was the exact same hatchet job they did on Paul Kersey in the Death Wish sequels.Frank Vega is a likeable character and this movie had a real charm about it. Too bad they messed with it for the sequels.

mistoppi I rented this movie yesterday, mostly because it had Danny Trejo in it, and it looked like the kind of crappy action movie I like. The dialogue in this movie is the best kind of action dialogue there is. There's a lot of swearing and all that, and it feels natural. Also most of the comedy in this film comes from the dialogue. The story of this movie is alright. There's a lot of good ingredients there, like the character Frank Vega is awesome and would do better in another type of movie. But honestly, it just feels like he's a cheap, slightly altered version of Machete. But the thing is, I don't think anyone would watch Bad Ass for the story. It's an action movie, and unless an action movie is very special, you watch it for the action parts. And when it comes to action, Bad Ass was good. The action scenes were easy to watch and to keep track of, and they were neither long nor confusing.It is Danny Trejo who makes this movie good. Like Danny Trejo is awesome by default, he could do anything in a movie, and I'd watch it. I'm not kidding, there could be a 30 minute movie with him eating tacos and I'd probably be like "Trejo is so bad ass wow!" I haven't seen him enough, I need to search for more movies.Bad Ass is an alright action movie. Few details are nice, but as a whole it's barely above average. I recommend it to people who like action movies, no matter how good or bad they are.

Leofwine_draca BAD ASS is a straightforward action vehicle for star Danny Trejo, almost unrecognisable underneath a thick beard. Bizarrely, it's based on a Youtube video that went viral and featured an old-timer standing up to a couple of thugs on a bus. This is the opening of the film, but things become pretty generic from this point in.It's obvious that this is a low budget movie, because a pivotal bus chase has been stolen from the movie RED HEAT (and it's not the first movie to steal this scene). Otherwise we're in the territory of macho one-liners, small-time hoods, and some serviceable fight sequences. What I didn't like about BAD ASS is the jokey script, which robs the film of menace and effectiveness.Scenes of Trejo swapping one-liners with a smart-mouthed kid sit oddly with moments like when he feeds a villain's hand into a garbage disposal unit. If BAD ASS had been a straight, dark thriller throughout then I think it would have been more effective. Still, there are some well picked actors in support (namely ALIEN 3's Charles S. Dutton and A.W.O.L.'s Harrison Page), and at least it's never slow.

suite92 In the first arc, Frank Vega narrates his life. His early days on a farm, the time in Vietnam, returning to find his sweet heart married to someone else, no one willing to give him a job, starting a hot dog stand, but not branching away from that.Then we hit the defining event. Two neo-Nazi fools roust an older black man on a bus. Frank decides to stop them instead of letting the other old man get hurt. He becomes a local hero of sorts. Three months later, his mother passes. His friend from Vietnam, Klondike, moves in with him.Mayor Williams announces a program to clean up Los Angeles, or at least parts of it.Klondike goes to buy some Camel cigarettes. Sebastian and Terrence, two young low-lifes, are waiting for him. He beats the hell out of them, but they shoot him in return.Frank interrupts a convenience store hold up. He sees fairly quick action on a case where an Anglo is killed in a robbery. He gets angry about the lack of progress on Klondike's case. He starts investigating on his own. His methods are more than a bit brutal.The mayor and Panther have an agreement, and Frank gets on their radar. From his investigations, Panther is on Frank's radar. Amber and Frank get a bit friendly.Frank gives Officer Malark (who did many a ride-along with Frank) a copy of the thumb drive that Klondike gave him for safe keeping. Will Frank's trust prove well placed?Will Frank catch to Klondike's killer? Perhaps more to the point, will he deal with Panther? -----Scores-----Cinematography: 8/10 Reasonably good.Sound: 6/10 Between OK and uninspired.Acting: 7/10 Dutton, Perlman, Page, and Trejo were fine. Patrick Fabian and Joyful Drake were OK, and I liked John Duffy. The minor players were interchangeably useless.Screenplay: 5/10 This could have been better. I liked the actors by and large, but their lines were not all that good. I found it impossible to believe that a single thumb drive was of any importance. One of the late chase sequences made no sense at all. If Danny Trejo is to have a love interest, perhaps a lady over 50 would be more likely.