An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since it was starring Nicolas Cage and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Unfortunately, as I expected, it turned out to be one of these terrible direct-to-VOD features that Cage has been making during the last 10 years and, even though it wasn’t the worst of the bunch, it was still seriously weak though. This time, he got involved in some very lame and cheap ‘Taken’ knock-off and pretty much nothing worked with the damned thing. Indeed, right from the start, with the beginning scene involving Cage’s character and his daughter, nothing did sound or look convincing. Then, you had his wife played by Rachel Nichols who sure did look lovely but, unfortunately, she also gave a rather weak performance and had pretty much zero chemistry with Cage. Concerning the rest of the movie, well, the story was just so generic and so tedious and, for some very long stretches, nothing at all really happened (the damned thing could have been easily 15 mins shorter). The fact that there was nothing interesting or original done on the directing side obviously didn’t help either. Eventually, it did seem that the damned thing was going to be completely abysmal but, I have to admit it, the ending actually did recover (some of) the damages. Indeed, it made sense with what happened during the rest of the story and it was actually more rewarding than all these misguided vigilante movies ending with the ‘victorious’ hero after he killed hundreds of goons. Obviously, it wasn’t enough to turn this movie into a masterpiece but, at least, as a result, it wasn’t one of the worst movies starring Nicolas Cage after all. Anyway, to conclude, in spite a decent ending, the whole thing was still really weak and you should probably avoid it.