An average movie

Somewhere, in the mid- 90’s, Nicolas Cage thought he should become an action star and even though his first attempt was actually pretty decent (‘The Rock’) , the rest has been going from average to downright terrible. This flick is a pretty good example of those tepid features he made in the last 20 years. Apparently, this time, it was a remake from a rather obscure 70’s flick. To be honest, I haven’t seen this movie but it didn’t look great whatsoever but who knows? I might be mistaken… Basically, it is one of those tedious action movies which tries to make you forget that the plot is really abysmal by throwing at you some ‘bad-ass’ action scenes. The only issue is that even though those action scenes were not bad, they were not really impressive enough. Still, I must admit, the cast was pretty neat (Nicolas Cage, Giovanni Ribisi, Angelina Jolie, Scott Caan, Delroy Lindo, Timothy Olyphant, Robert Duvall, Christopher Eccleston, Vinnie Jones). At the end of day, since it is a Jerry Bruckheimer production, I shouldn’t be surprised by the shallowness of the whole endeavor. Concerning Nicolas Cage, he has been focusing on those average action flicks lately and his career is slowly but surely losing any credibility. For example, more than 10 years later, he would be reunited with the same director, Dominic Sena, for the even more dreadful ‘Season of the Witch’… To conclude, even though I have seen worse, especially starring Nicolas Cage, it still remains a rather average flick and it is not really worth a look, even if you love the genre.

5/10