A bad movie

To be honest, even though this flick didn't seem to be amazing, since it was directed by Joe Johnston, I thought I might as well check it out. To be honest, it is rather surprising that Johnston would go from directing a big Marvel blockbuster to helm such cheap direct-to-DVD thriller. Well, even though I already had some low expectations, I still managed to be even weaker than I expected. Basically, it was just another cheap thriller and I was amazed by how little was actually going on through the whole thing. I mean, even if the running time was not even 80 mins, there were still some long stretches during which nothing much really happened at all. Then, the cast was just rather underwhelming. I mean, I have nothing against Max Minghella but the guy is just no leading material. Eventually, the only one who managed to do something slightly interesting with his character was JJ Feild but even he looked him a cheap Tom Hiddleston clone. Coming back to the story, seriously, the whole thing was just so lazy. I mean, not only it was just really generic and predictable, lot of it didn't make much sense. For example, why would the main character try to investigate what's going on just after he got fired? Then, why did it take him so long to call the cops? Even some small details were poorly handled like the fact that if a phone is turned off, you will always have to first enter the pincode before receiving a call. Anyway, at least, it was a short movie but there is no doubt that the whole thing was not really worth a look at all.

4/10