tomosp1965
This film would have got a ten were it not for the ending. Stephen Dorff plays the lead with great acting ability, taking the viewer on a stressful ride into the unknown. Terror has many faces and he finds that its difficult to know who to trust when you work for the secret service.The premise is believable, the script well conceived and the acting fantastic.I really enjoyed the film and the roller-coaster ride of tension.Its a great thriller for 95 minutes, but then they decided to turn it into a farce.8 out of ten
Ben Larson
When I watched The Call, a lot of the action took place in the trunk of a car. The same thing in this movie.However, there is a big difference in the two films aside from the fact that one of them featured Halle Berry, a reason to watch a film in itself.In brake, ALL the action takes place in the trunk of a car, and there is no action outside that trunk. You really have to have something special to pull that off, and Stephen Dorff isn't it.Dorff hasn't yet broken out of the circle of MTV, Blockbuster, or Young Artist awards. Despite 72 roles, he has only come on my radar once, and is in only one film one my "must see" list (I Shot Andy Warhol). That is not enough to carry a film like this.I just kept hoping the vehicle would crash so the movie might end.
uatu zwatcher
WARNING MAJOR PLOT SPOILER! i write this in the hope you don't have to waste an hour and a half of your life watching a movie that will leave you sad and disappointedi watched it for free on television and i still feel like i should get my money back.this movie was OK for the most part, for a 1:20 min movie featuring one person trapped in a steamer trunk sized clear plastic box in the trunk of a car it was intense but frankly the ending was predictable if your paranoid and the bad guy's winmajor spoilers are estranged wife, friends and fellow agents are all in on the terrorist attack and they use wheels within wheels to confuse the secret service agent until he lets slip the presidents location at which point they kill him end of movieit's basically watching the last hour or so of a man's life, watching him resist everything used against him and them he casually let's slip the one vital piece of information he was ready to die to protect
Bene Cumb
This distinguishable idea was used before and that is why the wow! effect is smaller; the backgrounds are different, but there are lots of similar features: mobile phone calls, hope vs. despair via events outside, new sudden twists, the fate of the leading character etc. However, Stephen Dorff is stronger and more versatile actor than Ryan Reynolds.I have heard that many did not like the ending scenes - but I did not mind; in my opinion, it would have been more shallow if the pre-ending scenes had taken the form of the final solution. However, it remained unclear to me who was involved with whom etc.A catchy thriller if you like movies with solo performances in a limited space.
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