An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but, since it was starring Antonio Banderas and Ben Kingsley, I thought I might as well check it out anyway. Well, from all the cheap action flicks that Banderas has been making recently, I have to admit that it wasn’t the worst of the bunch. Indeed, the concept (a security guard with no weapon has to defend himself inside a shopping mall against an army of heavily-armed thugs) actually had some potential. However, don’t be fooled, the damned thing was still pretty weak though but, with such a generic title, it was rather expected. First of all, I have nothing against Antonio Banderas, he has some acting skills, but I thought he was rather miscast here as some kind of Jason Bourne-like lethal killing machine. At least, with Stallone, Schwarzenegger or even Van Damme, even if they were definitely not the best actors in the world, they were really badass which was never the case with Banderas, in this movie but also through his whole career. To compensate this, they gave him here a whole bunch of unknown actors who were even less charismatic than he was. The most hilarious one was probably Liam McIntyre who was some kind of cheap version of John Cena except that they would have replaced his muscles with some hilarious sideburns. I was also rather surprised that his character was not appalled when they started to loot and seriously destroy his precious mall but, I guess, right from the start, the guy maybe understood that his life was actually more precious. Concerning the rest of the movie, well, it looked really cheap and none of the action scenes were memorable whatsoever. Anyway, to conclude, even if the damned thing was rather harmless, it was still a waste of time, for myself and all the people involved, and you should probably avoid it. 

5/10