An average movie

Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but I always had a weak spot for Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman so I thought I might as well give it a try. Well, it wasn’t really good, I’m afraid and it was another disappointing feature directed by Joel Schumacher. Right now, I have seen 20 movies directed by this guy but most of them were rather underwhelming and even if this movie might not be one of his worst, it was still pretty damned average. I mean, basically you get Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman held hostage in their house after 10 minutes and the first thing you ask yourself is how are they are going to keep this up for another 80 minutes? Well, not very well, that’s for sure. Basically, you have the bad guys screaming usually at Cage and sometimes at Kidman and threatening them with a gun and they kept repeat this endlessly. At some point, you had Nicolas Cage trying to outsmart them and, finally, there was a new dynamic in the story but it was just for a very short moment and they got back to the same tiresome routine I explained above. The number of twists was quite huge as well and, at some point, it seriously got on my nerves. To conclude, I think I might be generous with my rating here, the whole thing is pretty weak and I don’t think it is really worth a look.

5/10