An average movie

Honestly, I wasn't expecting something amazing from this but, at least, I thought it could be an entertaining action flick especially with such stars like Richard Gere and Bruce Willis. Unfortunately, it barely managed to be an average action feature. The worst thing is that, since then, I have seen 'The Day of the Jackal', the movie which has inspired it, it was completely brilliant and it makes this 'remake' look ever more incompetent. Where should I start? First of all, I have to admit that it was pretty neat to see Bruce Willis portraying a bad guy for a change and he did a decent job but compared to Edward Fox in the original movie, it was nothing really impressive. Willis did OK but I can't say the same about Richard Gere... He was supposed to play an Irish terrorist but he was not convincing whatsoever and don't get me started on his pathetic attempt to give an Irish accent... Furthermore, the story was just really weak, they even threw in a love story. The whole thing was just way too pedestrian and not interesting whatsoever. Honestly, it remained watchable, but they completely wasted this opportunity to create a modern version of this great story and it was just too bad. To conclude, I have seen worse but it is still a really average action flick and it is not really worth a look.

5/10