A bad movie

If you follow my work here on Listal, you might have noticed that I am slightly obsessive concerning my movie watching and I keep watching compulsively movies regardless of the quality, just because an obscure actor that I like is in it. One of my first obsessions was the movies starring Robert De Niro and, by now, I have seen almost 70 movies starring the great thespian, more than any other actor. Even though it has been some great fun tracking down his movies, there was a major downside though. Indeed, in the last 15 years, De Niro has made only one great movie (‘Silver Linings Playbook’) and the rest was rarely decent but usually pretty weak and you even had some pure garbage along the road. Well, this movie belongs to the last category, the garbage. To start with, it is one of those features which displays Robert De Niro prominently on all the promotional material where in fact, he is just maybe 15 minutes in the movie. Still, Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn are both some charming actors, Cameron Bright definitely showed some potential but even they couldn’t save this flick from being terribly underwhelming. Basically, it is a very weak thriller with a rather preposterous plot and I really had a hard time to care for the whole thing. To conclude, it is pretty bad and not really worth a look, even if you are a huge fan of Robert De Niro’s work.

4/10