An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Halle Berry, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though she did win an Academy Award always 20 years ago, I’m afraid that this time is long gone and, nowadays, she usually shows up for this kind of B features. Seriously, in this case, the first 15 mins were just really tedious and pretty much cringe-inducing to behold. Sure, I understand that they needed to introduce the main character somehow but, to be honest, if it was to provide something so generic, they could have just as well skipped it as far as I’m concerned. However, I have to admit that I was actually quite surprised when this mother saw the actual kidnappers and started to follow them. Indeed, from this point on, I was actually wondering what would happen next and, above all, the whole thing became a wild chase, one of the best I have seen in a long time, and it was actually pretty damned entertaining to behold. Unfortunately, it seems that the makers got stuck and never managed to properly develop the rest of the movie. I mean, the chase was quite thrilling but it probably took too much of the running time and everything happening before and after was just pretty weak. During the 3^rd act, while she was finally done chasing those kidnappers, it became the typical vigilante garbage, a genre I usually despise and the reason why so many Americans still think that they should have easy access to guns, and nothing happening there was either surprising, interesting or entertaining to behold. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of a few redeeming features, the damned thing was still pretty weak and I don’t think it is really worth a look.