Randy “the Natural” Couture is a great fighter, a legend in
the sport of mixed martial arts, but god damn, people need to stop giving him
lines in movies. For all his heart in the cage, for all his technical combative
prowess, and world-class grappling background, the man is not a good actor.
Which is too bad, because he comes across as such a good dude, and he does have
an imposing physical presence on the screen. But every time he opens his mouth
you have to groan. Maybe he’ll get there, after all, he spent years learning to
pummel people better, not necessarily to tap into his internal reservoirs in
order to evoke emotions. His role in “The Expendables” is about as much as you
can take, and he shouldn’t be saddled with the burden of carrying an entire film.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Couture’s unfortunate new action film
“Hijacked”.
