Unstoppable Movie
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You can't stop a man who will stop at nothing.
On the run and out of time.
The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes) is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy knight (Jacqueline Obradors), in a dinning restaurant, he is mistakenly taken as being the CIA agent that is investigating the robbery of the military experiment EX by a man called Sullivan (Stuart Wilson). He is injected with the drug and abducted by the thieves. Amy has six hours to find the also stolen antidote and save Dean's life.
| Wesley Snipes | Dean Cage |
| Jacqueline Obradors | Detective Amy knight |
| Stuart Wilson | Sullivan |
| Kim Coates | Peterson |
| Mark Sheppard | Leitch |
| Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | Junod |
| Vincent Riotta | Miller |
| David Schofield | Dr. Collins |
| Nicholas Aaron | McNab |
| Kim Thomson | Agent Kennedy |
| Jo Stone-Fewings | Agent Gabriel |
| Cristian Solimeno | Scott |
| Gary Oliver | Sullivan's Driver |
| Raicho Vasilev | St Nevis Guard 1 |
| David Fleeshman | St Nevis Guard 2 |
| David Carson |
4.80 out of 10 (1255 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Ordinary junked up, messy action/drama
posted on 04 Jul 2009"Unstoppable" is an underwhelming action/drama with Snipes as a retired Special Forces badass who is unwittingly injected with a powerful hallucinogen which will result in his death unless he and his detective girlfriend (Obradors) can get their hands on the antidote before the end of the flick. A very ordinary B-flick with a messy plot, this film spends its time with Snipes hallucinating when it's convenient and not when it's not while the rest of the cast (CIA, cops, bad guys) goes through the motions with the kind of enthusiasm you expect from a crew who just wants to get paid and go home. Messy, rote, uninspired, and a big step down for Snipes who hasn't exactly been at the top of the A-list these day, "Unstoppable" is not recommendable even for action junkies. Don't waste your time. (C)
stinking pile of garbage
posted on 12 Jun 2009This is the worst movie I have seen in recent memory. Apparently "Unstoppable" was written by a couple dozen drunken monkeys in different parts of the world with no connection at all to one another. I believe the name unstoppable is a description of the migraine one gets after watching this mind numbing stinking pile of trash. Wes- what were you thinking? Wesley Snipes is a far more accomplished actor than to be in this. This must have been a favor to someone or maybe he lost a bet. There was no measurable good quality to the screenplay. One could make out the pauses in the middle of sentences as the cue cards were switched. The special effects were pathetic at best. The acting, even by Snipes, was horrible. There were obvious sections where the film maker wanted to pad the film. I am actually shocked I didn't see a boom in any of the shots. Instead of renting this movie buy some rusty nails and pound them into your noggin. Trust me, it would be much less painful.I just realized what this movie reminded me of. This would have been the perfect role for Gary Busey!!
Absurd and Awful Screenplay
posted on 09 Apr 2009The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes) is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy knight (Jacqueline Obradors), in a dinning restaurant, he is mistakenly taken as being the CIA agent that is investigating the robbery of the military experiment EX by a man called Sullivan (Stuart Wilson). He is injected with the drug and abducted by the thieves. Amy has six hours to find the also stolen antidote and save Dean's life."Unstoppable" is a movie with an absurd and awful screenplay. The story has so many flaws and ridiculous situations that become amazing how an actor like Wesley Snipes accepts to participate of such a crap. The "hero" jumps through a window in an asylum, in front of the police cars, and nobody cares. There are lots of shots inside the hospital and nobody hears. The drugged "hero", with cloudy vision, kills the men in the helicopter with precise shoots, while the place is surrounded by FBI agents that do nothing. I could spend the afternoon listing holes in this flick. The cast is also awful and miscast: for example, the Caucasian Jacqueline Obradors, with her horrible tone of voice, has no chemistry with Wesley Snipes. I believe that even in a rainy and cold Saturday afternoon this movie does not work. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Fugindo do Passado" ("Escaping from the Past")
Who the hell marries their best friend's sister anyway?
posted on 20 Feb 2009Unstoppable is one of those movies that people immediately attack, calling it Wesley Snipes descent into video land and such. These are not entirely unfounded arguments, but I have to suggest that the badness of this movie may be magnified at least a little bit because it is so overshadowed by Blade 3 which, given the previews, looks to be a spectacular action movie. I have a feeling that Blade 3 will be something of a minor letdown, in the same way that The Matrix Revolutions was – not quite as incredible as you thought, but still a cool action/sci-fi movie. Enter Unstoppable, and you have a sometimes boring and sometimes downright stupid action movie being given to fans who are just looking for something to tide them over until they can get another dose of gleeful vampire bloodletting.The movie starts with a strange situation that turns into a good one. A bunch of guys have another guy strapped to a gurney in an ambulance racing down the street. The guy strapped down manages not only to kick the ambulance's rear doors open, but also to get away from the guys interrogating him, succeeding in rolling his gurney out the back of the ambulance, onto the road, and into the path of a tailgating truck. Oops. Pretty goofy, but at the later investigation, an arriving investigator finds out what happened and asks where the ambulance is, and learns that it didn't stop. I have to admit that's a pretty clever way to reveal that there were probably no EMTs in that ambulance.There is later another similar impressive scene when the one guy captured from the diner shooting finally decides to cooperate. He tells Amy, the interrogating officer, that he will cooperate only with her, after having refused outright during the interrogation room, and while now being led away by FBI agents. He yells to her that these guys are not FBI and he'll talk to her, and ten seconds later several people have been shot and he's dead. Doesn't sound very impressive in writing, but these are actually some pretty clever scenes. On the other hand, they are balanced out by some serious blunders, like the gigantic cliché of the rivalry between the police and the FBI. The only people who fight like they do in this movie are children, cats and dogs, and the FBI and CIA. Take the diner scene, for example. Dean Cage, played by Wesley Snipes and not to be confused with Nicholas Cage or Dean Cain, goes to a diner to meet his girlfriend after leaving early from a self-help group for war veterans suffering from post traumatic stress. Turns out he just went to the wrong diner and sat at the wrong table at the wrong time, because there are a whole group of guys outside waiting to drug and capture someone who looks enough like him for them not to be able to tell the difference.At first you may hesitate to believe that they could so easily misidentify their target, but the ineptitude with which they handle their operation allows me to believe all sorts of stupidity. One guy, for example, is so bad at being inconspicuous that Cage, while merely looking around waiting for his girlfriend, is able to spot him from inside a well lit diner while the guy is standing on the other side of the street at night. And if that wasn't bad enough, consider the sound guy, my favorite. After learning that his buddy has been spotted, he looks at Cage in the diner and sees that he is looking right at him, that he's been spotted, too. Hey buddy, this is just a suggestion, but maybe you were spotted because of that LASER-GUIDED MICROPHONE you're using. A laser sight on a shotgun microphone is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard of, but that's not enough for this guy. He has to train the laser onto the window directly in front of Cage, so that he glances casually at the window, wondering why there's a little red light dancing there. Given his decorated military background, I would have thought he would have reacted a little differently to a laser sight pointed at him. And the best part was that when he curiously tapped the window, the sound guy gets such a loud roar in his headphones that he just about falls out of the car.Wesley Snipes turns in a satisfactory performance, except for any scene where he thinks he's back in Bosnia and his friend is being tortured in front of him. His pleas for his captors to let him down and don't burn him and don't hurt him are about as emotional and frantic as if he was reading his shopping list. Is that really how he spoke to his captors when he was in Bosnia trying to get them to let his friend down? On the other hand, his hallucinations were done quite well. Throughout the movie there are some good scenes put together where Cage slips in and out of reality, thinking that the guys trying to interrogate him in the present time are his captors from Bosnia. With the exception of the scene where his girlfriend disappears in front of his eyes in the shower (I disappeared people on screen better than that when I was making short films at Fresno City College), a lot of these are actually done well.Outside of the mistaken identity, the plot revolves around a top-secret drug that makes people completely susceptible to suggestion and also causes total synaptic melt-down within 6-8 hours of injection. Cage was injected in the diner early in the movie, and spends the rest of the movie reeling from the effects of it, while his girlfriend Amy, a highly overacting Jacqueline Obradors, tries to figure out what happened and then get the antidote. The old premise of getting the antidote before the poison kills the hero is a recipe for fake tension, but the closing scene is actually done pretty well here, too. In the closing scene, the bad guy is also injected with the drug after the sale of a case of thousands of capsules of the drug and thousands of capsules of the antigen goes wrong. As Cage reaches for the single capsule of antigen on the ground in front of him, the whole case of the drug spills over, hiding it among thousands and thousands of capsules of the drug. Once the bad guy gets injected, he joins in the search, frantically grabbing handfuls of capsules looking for the right one, having forgotten that he has 6-8 hours before he really has to worry, as well as the fact that there is a huge case full of thousands and thousands of doses of the antidote sitting right there in his truck.Another thing that this movie really has going against it is that the action scenes are just ludicrous. At one point, a guy is in a helicopter shooting a freaking gatling gun at people. He literally shoots tens of thousands of rounds and hits nothing. Cage responds, shooting three rounds from a handgun and succeeding in killing the guy and blowing up the helicopter. At another point a guy fires an Uzi at Amy and Cage from probably six feet away, spraying a stream of bullets at them and missing completely, or at least long enough for her to grab a handgun and make short work of him. What was he shooting at that allowed him to miss from that range?So clearly, the movie has a lot of really bad but also some pretty good stuff in it, just unfortunately not quite as much good as bad. The two almost balance each other out, but still leave it below average. It is not, I have to say, as bad as many people have called it (the song over the end credits is worse than the entire movie, for example), but there is certainly a reason that it went straight to video. Maybe even several reasons.
Once again Wesley lets us down
posted on 27 Jan 2009Before I start about this movie, I know many of you would like to direct your blame at Wesley, maybe not for just this movie but a lot of turkeys he's been making recently (Zig Zag, 7 seconds, The Marksman, Liberty stands still). Anyway he deserves blame in this film for not having more involvement on the script, which gets a bit silly. The movie is by no far means the worst movie I've seen; you just have to see another Snipes movie, "7 seconds" to do that! And at least unstoppable has strong performances from Snipes himself and the gorgeous Jacqueline Obradors. Its just the budget of this movie is clear to see, and the storyline is wafer thin with many loose ends not explained, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje plays an agent for the CIA named Junod, you may all remember him as Adebisi in the greatest TV show ever, OZ. Here he portrays a high ranking officer within the CIA with the worst American western style accent ever heard; there are even pauses during his dialogue for him to put the accent on. There are a few good fight scenes, like the scene in the Diner when Dean Cage (Snipes's character) beats down his attacker, and the chase to hunt him down is mildly enjoyable hence the generous maybe biased 5 out of ten I gave it. Stuart Wilson does a good job as the bad guy, but why he doesn't kill his bumbling henchmen especially Kim Coates character puts a big question mark on his characters ruthlessness. The story stumbles into the final scenes with so much predictability you feel like Deja vu. If you haven't enjoyed a decent performance from our dear friend Wesley since Jungle Fever or even Rising Sun, then don't expect it here, in fact who knows if we'll ever see another classic Wesley Snipes movie, now that he seems to make low budget straight to video fodder........watch only if it's on TV and nothing better is on
Awful
posted on 27 Jan 2009Snipes has done some real stinkers in his less-than-illustrious career, but this one takes the cake. Basically a rehash of DOA and CONSPIRACY THEORY only without the talent or the direction to pull it off. Snipes is injected with a drug in order to get him to spill the beans about something or other, and ultimately the drug will kill him.It's a race against time to get to the antidote! Most of the movie takes place in a mental asylum being run by a trio of bad guys connected to the CIA or some other government agency.Really bad. Illustrious Brit actor Stuart Wilson is the chief villain, but even he can't save this direct to video stinker.
Story-driven action film with a touch of originality
posted on 19 Jan 2009Wesley Snipes fans expecting a fightfest will probably be disappointed with "Unstoppable" / "Nine Lives", since the martial arts quotient is very limited. But those who prefer their action films to be driven by their stories and have a touch of originality in them will probably like this more. The originality comes mostly in the form of the hallucinogenic effects of the drug that Snipes gets injected with, and the ways director David Carson merges illusions with reality. Snipes is believably haunted by his war memories, just as he is believably disoriented by the drug; an action star like, say, Steven Seagal, would hardly be able to handle this role. Playing a police detective who is also Snipes' girlfriend, Jacqueline Obradors is uncompromisingly tough, foul-mouthed and occasionally even unpleasant, and she handles it all with conviction. And Kim Coates always makes a dependable villain. The film also contains one of the funniest lines I've heard in a long time, precisely because it's so unexpected: "Hey, have you seen my pony?" (**1/2)
Not a bad movie
posted on 04 Dec 2008I like almost all Snipes' action movies. This one is not exception. Not a bad movie. Film tells us about some CIA guys who create some drug which affect human brain in a special way. People who take a shot of this drug starting see hallucinations… And these guys lookin' for a FBI agent, and wanna interrogate him with this drug. They give an injection to Cage (Snipes) by mistake, as they thought that he was FBI agent. They just didn't know that he is not an agent, he is ex-military man. Cage starts seeing his illusions and thinks that he is still at war. Now he is trying to stay alive… Not a bad movie. I like the plot, but it seems to me, that the script could be much better. I got a feeling that the screenwriter did this script during couple of days. But if you like other action movies with Snipes, I guess you'll like this one too. It's worth seeing, but only once. 3 of 5.
I liked the romantic side.
posted on 03 Oct 2008I am not a big fan of action films just for the sake of seeing violence. I liked the romantic side of this film. I appreciated seeing Jacqueline Obradors as the police officer/love interest in the film. She was a strong independent woman and she stood by her man. He referred to her as his sister, the sister of his best friend. He had wanted to marry her long before but the tragedy that happened with her brother prevented him from going forward.She stuck with him through all his emotional problems as well as through the incident in this movie.I never cared for her character in NYPD Blue but I really liked her here.I was rooting for Wesley Snipe's character and her to have a chance at a life together.
average plus B movie
posted on 07 Jun 2008This movie was made by a team of beginners, almost everybody is unknown in the team, with the exception of Wesley Snipes. It seems to be done on a low budget, but it is ambitious, well paced, and frankly speaking I do not understand the negative reactions of many of the viewers who commented on this film. The story is in the post-war trauma genre, with the principal hero getting caught into a mistaken identity case, involved in some psychotic drugs exchange, and injected himself with the drug, which leads to personality control and is fatal if an anti-dote is not found in the next few hours. Sure, there are a lot of coincidences around to enable the story, and the film has its dose of incredible gunshots and violent fist punching, but it's not worse than in most of the blockbusters in recent years. What counts and is good in my opinion is the fact that the story is well-filmed, characters are credible and the relationship between the main character, his girl-friend including the follow-ups of the war experiences of the hero are human and credible. Acting is OK, no good special effects to mention, but the interest on what is going on is kept awake all over. The film does not seem to have been released in cinemas in the US, may have gone directly to video and DVD, and I am wondering why. Anyway, for action films lovers it's an average plus installment, not to be avoided.
Former Special Ops agent Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes) is mistaking for another agent. Now he has to fight for his life.
posted on 03 Jun 2008This had to be the worst Wesley Snipes flick of all time. Truly a waste of money. It hurts me to say this, because I'm a hardcore Wesley Snipes fan. I think the plot of this movie was trash. The park scene was the funniest; watch out for that scene other than that it was garbage. Wesley Snipes used a stunt man to perform a kick, since when does he use a stunt man to kick, I know Wesley isn't that old. True disappointment. Oh and by the way did I mention this movie was garbage? Wesley Snipes barely threw a punch in the whole movie, he mostly was on the run, using guns, but barely any hand to hand combat. I didn't see the The Detonator yet, but I'm kind of scared to after seeing this movie. I guess Wesley Snipes really needs the money. I hope Snipes can start making movies that actually hits the theaters, but for now, he's a straight to DVD actor. He is coming out with a movie this year, a horror/western called Gallowwalker. It's about a gunman being cursed, now he has to fight all of his enemies that died by his hands, only this time they're already dead. Sounds better than Unstoppable, I really hope it is. Wesley needs to step up his career; I'm fighting this fight with Wesley Snipes though, but I don't know how long this fight is going to last. I advise you to watch this movie only if you have nothing else better to watch on T.V.
Pretty good
posted on 21 Oct 2007I rented out this movie expecting a piece of junk. I actually got an involving movie. Wesley Snipes is good in this movie. The girl who plays his love interest (who appears on NYPD Blue and I can't think of her name) is also good. Snipes plays a former special forces agent who is mistaken for an assassin. He is injected with a drug that makes him hallucinate. His girlfriend is a cop who is the person he can trust with people trying to kill him left and right. This movie was obviously made on a low budget and it shows sometimes with some fake looking special effects. The plot comes dangerously close to idiot plot (where the movie would be over immediately if everybody wasn't an idiot)at times. However, you can't help but get yourself involved with this story. This beats the disappointing Blade: Trinity, which ended the series on a low note. This is worth a DVD rental. 7/10
Should have been stopped in it's tracks
posted on 31 Jul 2007STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs Former Black Ops Soldier Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes) is suffering post traumatic stress syndrome following an horrendous ordeal during the Gulf War.However,he now has a new problem to contend with,after he finds himself injected with a new mind-controlling serum.He finds himself on the run,with some shadowy figures from the FBI on his trail...Snipes has always been a gifted,highly-under-rated actor (if you have any doubt about that,check out his leading role turn in the excellent New Jack City.)So,it's a bit of a shame to see his big-screen career hanging on by the thread of his leading role in the Blade series,and his descension into DTV slush such as this creeping up on him ever more so.If you've seen the plot summary above,you should already see the cracks showing in it's disjointed,uninvolving storyline.It's equally hard to care about the characters involved and,add this to a distinct lack of action,and you have one to most definitely avoid.*
You needed the money that bad Wesley?
posted on 29 Jun 2007One has to wonder what in the world was going on in Wesley Snipes's head when he accepted this stinker. The story is simple. The CIA develops a drug that makes people follow someone's commands offering no resistance. A dirty agent escapes with the drug. But there's a leak in his operation. A guy speaks to the CIA and now the bad guys need to know if it's safe to sell the drug. So they inject the drug in what they suppose is the CIA agent to make him talk. Unfortunately they inject the wrong guy (Snipes). Now not only does Snipes, who by the way is an ex military that carries a guilt (now that's original) has to escape from them but he also has to get the antidote or his brain will pretty much fry. The acting is awful. The script is filled with stupid situations just for the sake of blowing something up. There's no logic or even an attempt to make things slightly realistic or interesting. If you're into 'B Action' then maybe you'll get some enjoyment out of this. I like silly movies but this was too dull, too tedious and just too dumb.Plot holes, clichés, there's so much wrong with this it's a wonder how someone approved the script.
Unwatchable...(Sorry for an obvious truth)
posted on 03 Feb 2007Wesley Snipes stars as Dean Gage, an ex soldier who has emotional baggage, however when he is injected with a truth serum, Gage finds himself vulnerable and the bad guys on his trail, but who can he trust? I caught Unstoppable on USA a couple of months ago and it is easily one of the worst movies i've seen from Wesley Snipes. I know this don't go to theaters but the quality and the overall final result is substandard even for a straight to video action flick. The action sequences are filmed with little interest and the movie just lacks an originality or life to make this for anyone but Wesley Snipes enthusiasts.1/2* out of 4-(Awful)
bad action film
posted on 01 Feb 2007Wesley Snipes play the part of an ex-soldier that is going to marry his girlfriend, but, in a bar, he is confused with another person and a group of traitors to CIA inject him a powerful drug that mixes reality and memory. He and his girlfriend have to fight in order to find an antidote and to crush the organization that has attacked Wesley. A typical bad action film, with all the clichés that can be found in this kind of films. Directed poorly, with scenes not very well-done and a lot of unbelievable moments of mastery in aiming. Neither the actors nor the plot are very good so the film is quite bad. On the other hand it has any moment of breathe and the action does not bore the spectator, (unexpected) which is a (little) good point. Ideal for TVfilm (it was originally thought as one), for seeing and forgot, but a little enjoyable if you like action films
Possible the worst movie i have ever seen
posted on 16 Jan 2007Budget: est $15million. $14.9 million probably went to Wesley Snipes. The worst special effects, acting and plot all thrown together and put in a decent DVD cover. Guns being loaded with empty clips, dodgy effects, predictable scenes (we placed bets on what would happen in that scene. It was a good days betting). Wesley Snipes should be groaning at even having his name associated with this film. And the people who directed/wrote/starred and had basically anything to do with it should never be allowed near a movie set again!I wouldn't recommend to any to pay decent money for this film, even on DVD. Go to the supermarket and spend that $5 on chocolate or chips, they will entertain you longer!
One of Wesley's worst movies in my opinion, that's actually rather dull, with not much action, and an ordinary story
posted on 11 Nov 2006This is one of Wesley's worst movies in my opinion, that's actually rather dull, with not much action, and an ordinary story. All the characters are so,so and the performance are not that good either,however Wesley Snipes is simply amazing in this! he is the reason that kept this bearable. Granted this isn't one of Wesley's greatest performances but he was amazing enough to at least keep it bearable, and I thought this was cheaply made and pretty poorly written as well, plus Jacqueline Obradors surprised me by giving an intense performance and created a little spark in the film,although it wasn't enough. Having said that there isn't anything else positive I can say about this film as it's just too below average, and why Wesley accepted this horrid script is beyond me, plus there are no good fight scenes to be found other then a short one at a diner. the plot I read on the back made it sound intriguing, as I was thinking hey this might not be so bad, boy was I wrong, plus the ending sucked. This is one of Wesley's worst movies in my opinion, that's actually rather dull, with not much action, and an ordinary story, and I say pass. The Direction is simply average. David Carson does an average job here with boring camera work, OK angles and keeping the film at a bland pace for the most part. The Acting is OK. Wesley Snipes is amazing as always and is amazing here (well for this type of film anyway), he was very likable,as always tough as nails, however what really ticked me off is why he decided to pick a crappy script like this, still he went with it, and gave it his all, and I truly appreciated that, he is the one reason that made this bearable. (Snipes Rules!!!!!!!). Jacqueline Obradors surprised me here by giving an above average performance, she was sexy quite intense, and enjoyable to watch, I rather dug her. Stuart Wilson looks embarrassed to be here and I don't blame him he is OK as the main villain, but was't menacing at all, he still rocks though!. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje did OK with what he had to do he was rather wasted and didn't have much of a part. Rest of the cast are so,so. Overall I would pass. ** out of 5 (and that's being generous!).
Pleasantly surprised
posted on 11 Nov 2006"Blade: Trinity" Wesley Snipes' last, horrible movie, suggested a classic "Steven Segal" case. Has run out of his fame, and will go in any film, no matter how bad, just to get on the camera. As was the case with "Half Past Dead". So when I read about "Unstoppable" in a blockbuster catalogue (after renting the superb "Motorcycle Diaries") I wasn't too optimistic. But, nevertheless, I decided to give it a try, anyway. It couldn't be that bad, could it? Actually, I was surprised. Very surprised. It may have all the classic "B-movie" symptoms (i.e. low budget, hardly known cast, cheesy script) yet this solid action movie was actually decent (compared to the usual rubbish I'm used to these days). If you want to see a great overall film, rent "Collateral". But if you want a good, surprisingly fresh (very violent) action film, "Unstoppable" just might be the ticket. Overall: ***/ out of ***** (3 and a half out of 5)
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Good Wesley Snipes Movie
posted on 23 Aug 2009I can not understand why this movie is rated so low on this web site the rating is 4.9 and this movie is not a 4.9 it is at least a 6 and a half out of 10.Wesley Snipes who is a kick ass action actor does a good job at acting and kicking ass in this movie.If u liked Wesley Snipes in this movie u should watch him in some of his other great action movies like Blade II, his first movie Wildcats,Passenger 57,Money train or White Men Can't Jump.Over all do not believe this movies bad rating and all of the bad comments about this movie because this movie is way better then people say it is.And my rating is 6 and a half out of 10.