Cage plays a building developer with a dark past, links to the Russian Mafia. His daughter is abducted, and he assembles a crack team of former work colleagues to hunt down and kill those responsible.
I felt like I was watching another version of 'Taken' starring Liam Neeson, but I can assure you, I wasn't. It was badly acted, badly cast. badly written, and badly edited. The whole premise to the film that we see at the start is completely undone at the end, to the point that the whole film becomes one huge 'celebrated' plot hole, or should I say 'sink hole'. It is a directing tool of mis-direction that should be avoided, it stinks, did not add an interesting twist to the storyline, just made the whole film completely pointless. Cage's acting dynamics went from the usual 'head down ramblings' to the ever annoying 'over the top yelling', usual fare from him. The wife role was almost pointless,I think Sidney Poitier's cop role was ridiculous, even at times saying..."If you don't stop killing all these people I may actually have to do something.." You don't really get much of a back story from any of the characters, you do not feel any empathy for their plight, or care what happens to any of them. There's a lot of shooting, car chases, and the movie goes from whispering dialogue to ear splitting gun shots and screeching cars, which I find annoying, the higher end of the dynamic range of the soundtrack was ridiculous compared to the softly spoken dialogue. Needs to be addressed, sure, gun shots are gonna be louder than the spoken word, but c'mon, one minute I couldn't hear the dialogue, nek minnit, I was reaching for the volume control. 3 out of 10
I felt like I was watching another version of 'Taken' starring Liam Neeson, but I can assure you, I wasn't. It was badly acted, badly cast. badly written, and badly edited. The whole premise to the film that we see at the start is completely undone at the end, to the point that the whole film becomes one huge 'celebrated' plot hole, or should I say 'sink hole'. It is a directing tool of mis-direction that should be avoided, it stinks, did not add an interesting twist to the storyline, just made the whole film completely pointless. Cage's acting dynamics went from the usual 'head down ramblings' to the ever annoying 'over the top yelling', usual fare from him. The wife role was almost pointless,I think Sidney Poitier's cop role was ridiculous, even at times saying..."If you don't stop killing all these people I may actually have to do something.." You don't really get much of a back story from any of the characters, you do not feel any empathy for their plight, or care what happens to any of them. There's a lot of shooting, car chases, and the movie goes from whispering dialogue to ear splitting gun shots and screeching cars, which I find annoying, the higher end of the dynamic range of the soundtrack was ridiculous compared to the softly spoken dialogue. Needs to be addressed, sure, gun shots are gonna be louder than the spoken word, but c'mon, one minute I couldn't hear the dialogue, nek minnit, I was reaching for the volume control. 3 out of 10