“Final Score” (**1/2 out of four) was a serviceably efficient action thriller about a disgraced former soldier (Dave Bautista) who takes his niece (Lara Peake) to a soccer stadium game when ruthless international terrorists (led by Ray Stephenson) seize control of the stadium and say it will explode unless one of the terrorists’ brothers (Pierce Brosnan) is released! Rips off “Die Hard”, “Black Sunday”, and (especially) Jean Claude Van Damme’s “Sudden Death” in equal measure but features enough hand-to-hand combat and violent action moving at a fast pace to make it entertaining. Highlight: a motorcycle chase through the stadium. Brosnan is wasted but Stephenson is terrific as usual.

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