Recap: A lone kidnapper, with a famous victim, is gunned down by police on a bridge leaving both the kidnapper and victim dead. An investigation and trial leads to one officer fired and detective Conners suspended. Now a bank robbery has gone slightly wrong, leaving the robbers with a lot of hostages, and they won't talk to anyone but Conners. Conners is quickly found and brought back, but now with young partner Shane Dekker keeping an eye on him for the captain. As the SWAT-team attempts to break in to the bank, the robbers make an spectacular escape. Conners and his partners must now chase the robbers all over town. But leads are hard to come by, and the chief robber is out to cover his tracks, even if it means killing his partners...
Comments: A good action/thriller with a surprisingly low distribution given the cast and quality of the movie. Nice to see Snipes in a good movie again, along with others like Statham and Phillipe and the new acquaintance (to me) Wadell. Together they pull off a really good performance.
The story is good to with some nice actions scenes, explosions and a car chase. It also has its twists and turns and flashbacks slowly revealing the truth, cause everything is not like it first seems. Unfortunately it is a little too predictable. Not like you know the ending after watching a few minutes, but it is not hard to keep at least one step ahead of the movie. The twists intended to surprise fail to surprise, often because the movie has hinted it a little to obvious. I approve of the use of fore-shadowing though, integrating twists into the story so that they do not drop in out of the blue, but here it was made a little too obvious.
Still, it was a good 90 minutes of quality entertainment...
7/10
Comments: A good action/thriller with a surprisingly low distribution given the cast and quality of the movie. Nice to see Snipes in a good movie again, along with others like Statham and Phillipe and the new acquaintance (to me) Wadell. Together they pull off a really good performance.
The story is good to with some nice actions scenes, explosions and a car chase. It also has its twists and turns and flashbacks slowly revealing the truth, cause everything is not like it first seems. Unfortunately it is a little too predictable. Not like you know the ending after watching a few minutes, but it is not hard to keep at least one step ahead of the movie. The twists intended to surprise fail to surprise, often because the movie has hinted it a little to obvious. I approve of the use of fore-shadowing though, integrating twists into the story so that they do not drop in out of the blue, but here it was made a little too obvious.
Still, it was a good 90 minutes of quality entertainment...
7/10