An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from the damned thing but since there was a solid cast involved and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, as expected, it turned out to be one of these cheap direct-to-VOD action flicks and, even if it was maybe not the worst of the bunch, I still didn’t care much for it though. First of all, even though they didn’t overuse filters which is often the case with these movies, the end-result was still not really impressive, visually speaking. Above all, in this area, I was rather amazed by the number of shots which seemed to be out of focus. Concerning the story, even if it was nothing really ground-breaking, it did have some potential though. Indeed, I always had a weak spot for heist movies and taking the action into a bus was a bold move (don’t except some adrenaline rush like in ‘Speed’ though). Still, some bits didn’t make much sense though (for example, how did Luke Vaughn knew that their getaway car would bail and that they would end up in this bus?). Still, the cast was pretty cool though (Robert De Niro, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Dave Bautista, Kate Bosworth, Gina Carano, Morris Chestnut, Mark-Paul Gosselaar) and it was rather impressive what they all managed to do with this material. The only exception would be Gina Carano who’s such a poor actress, the only exception is when she is involved in some badass fighting scenes which was unfortunately not the case here. Still, even the best actors involved did struggle with the dialogues which were fairly often rather pathetic. Anyway, to conclude, even if I have seen worse, the damned thing was still pretty weak and I don’t think it is really worth a look.