“Message Man” (*1/2 out of four) was a disjointed action thriller about a retired assassin (Paul O’Brien) who is (what else?) coaxed out of retirement to go on one final killing spree to make things right but this turns out to be a far uglier and more violent mission than he imagined. The kind of vehicle that Arnold and Stallone (and even Chuck and Steven and Van Damme) did better decades ago and this feels like warmed-over stale leftovers. Even the action scenes are poorly photographed and staged. Don’t bother “messaging” this one.

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