Apart from mistaking energy for exhilaration, the movie is a mostly flavorless puree of dark humor, comic-book sentimentality and ultra-bloody combat.

Brining is great for lean meats that are inherently flavorless when cooked on their own, like chicken breasts, pork chops, seafood and Thanksgiving turkey.

Water, at its core, is flavorless and colorless.

The worst of the three turkeys, the breast meat was flavorless and jerky-like, so dry and hard to take down.

Needless to say, many of them were flavorless tubs of powder.