An average movie

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but the title sounded cool and there was a really nice cast involved so I thought I might as well give it a try. Eventually, the whole thing turned out to be a huge disappointment though. Indeed, it has been a while since I have seen such a messy thriller. I mean, it is quite usual, with this genre, that they keep you in the dark for a while but, slowly, you are supposed to understand what’s going on but, here, it wasn’t the case at all. Indeed, at the beginning, you know basically nothing and, at the end, you know just as much which was still nothing. The issue is that, from time to time, it seems that the plot was going somewhere and you think you might get a grip on the story but, then, it seemingly dropped what was going on and then they would move towards something else and, as a result, the whole thing was terribly underwhelming to behold. For example, why was there this sporadic argument about jurisdiction? It was never properly developed and you wonder what was the added value for the main story. Same thing about the fact that Jeffrey Dean Morgan was a cop from New York or the fact that Sam Worhington and Jessica Chastain were married. It’s a pity because the actors involved (Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain, Chloë Grace Moretz, Annabeth Gish, Sheryl Lee) did a decent job with some poorly developed characters. Still, the mood was pretty good and the whole thing seriously had some potential. Anyway, to o conclude, I think my rating might be a bit generous here but I still think it is worth a look somehow.

6/10