An average movie

Even though I wasn’t expecting much from this flick, since I'm a huge fan of Robert de Niro, I still wanted to check it out. To be honest, during the 2000's, none of de Niro’s movies were actually really impressive and this flick is a good example of this trend. This time, de Niro was working with the young upcoming actress Dakota Fanning and they both actually did a decent job. Furthermore, the directing was not bad either and they got the tone right so it seemed you had the ingredients for a decent thriller. Unfortunately, the story was terribly underwhelming. Indeed, the plot was so pedestrian, it was just the typical, unoriginal and rather boring stuff you find in so many lame US thrillers. In my opinion, it really symbolizes de Niro's movies during the last decade : not really bad and rather well made but so uninteresting compared with what he has done before. It’s pretty much obvious that Robert de Niro who was once the greatest actor alive is pretty much pissing on his legacy by doing all those lame movies just for the paycheck. To conclude, it is not really that bad actually but it is just really average and it is not really worth a look, even if you are a huge fan of Robert de Niro like me.

5/10