An average movie

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a pretty cool cast, I thought I should give it a try. If I recall correctly, I saw this one with my wife because she has a huge weak spot for thrillers. Personally, I always had a somewhat difficult relationship with the typical US thrillers and this movie is a perfect example. Indeed, it started quite alright, there was indeed a nice cast (Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn) and they all delivered some decent performances. I always had a weak spot for Ashley Judd, back in those days, she was still on the A list and she was basically the Queen of the thrillers after showing up in ‘Kiss the Girls’, ‘Double Jeopardy’ and ‘High Crimes’. Furthermore, the mood was also quite decent and the whole thing seemed to be a watchable feature in this genre. Unfortunately, and this is the main reason why I have such a hard time with this kind of movies, the ending was just downright ridiculous. I mean, it is typical with thrillers, the build-up is pretty nice and entertaining but they always have to finish up with some preposterous twist ending, usually involving some random action scene, ruining the whole thing. Well, in this case, the ending was indeed very weak. To conclude, even though it had some potential, it is actually a rather weak thriller and it is not really worth a look, I’m afraid.

5/10