Wendy Ide 

The Enforcer review – thuddingly predictable crime thriller

Antonio Banderas plays a jaded career criminal with a softer side in a film that limps between Miami sleaze cliches
  
  

Antonio Banderas in The Enforcer.
Antonio Banderas in The Enforcer. Photograph: Film Co handout

Antonio Banderas stars as Cuda, a jaded career criminal, recently released from prison, who is paired with a young professional fighter turned hired muscle in the employ of Kate Bosworth’s vampy lady mob boss. Your crime movie cliche bingo card should already be half full on the strength of the first sentence of this review, even before I reveal that Cuda, despite a lifetime of inflicting pain on people, also has a conscience and a soft heart when it comes to vulnerable teenage girls who remind him of his estranged daughter. It’s thuddingly predictable stuff that limps through a plot involving nefarious sex traffickers, treachery and a liberal smearing of Miami sleaze.

Watch a trailer for The Enforcer.
 

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