“The Hard Way” (** out of four) was a fairly basic underworld melodrama about a former Special Ops soldier (Michael Jai White) who learns that his brother died on a mission in Romania and teams up with a former ally (Luke Goss) to hunt down the criminal mob organization responsible and enact bloodthirsty revenge. Both Jai White and Goss have played these roles so many times by now they could easily play them in their sleep which they seem to be doing at times and you can’t exactly blame them. Routine action blowout has some good hand-to-hand fight sequences and martial arts sequences but is enervatingly predictable. Byetheway, this is not a remake of the Michael J. Fox/James Woods 1991 cult classic of the same name.