JamesGreen8
This film is bad, I'm unsure how they misused so much talent.It's just a badly written predictable film populated by stereotypical characters - the explosives expert you crossed gives you a package? Christ, he may as well have written 'BOMB' in massive letters on it or had a comically large fuse sticking out of it.From time to time great actors make poor films, in this case, that plural is true - many actors in this are great but my god did all of their 'miss' columns get an addition when this wrappedI saw this at a secret screening roughly around the time of Deadpool' release, it was never going to be that but the screen was packed with people thinking or hoping it may just be that but no.I have yet to see so many people exit a film in such a steady stream - it took a good 5 minutes for people to exit when 'Triple 9' came up and people after the initial exodus kept getting up and leaving until I think the last person who didn't stick it out left FORTY-FIVE MINUTES into the film, this is about 40% of the film, I have never seen a film be that bad that someone has got to that point and not been able to endure the rest of it and better yet, the cinema I saw it in had two screens playing this as demand was so high and BOTH had this 'nope' occur with people leaving until quite a while into the filmI can't rate this 0/10 as there isn't an option but please know I absolutely am doing that with my '1'
gpxdlr
Casey, why do this after Manchester? Kate, why this after a good one in Reader? Woody, you lowered your standards. Chinwetel plays a really dumb cop believing the Russians would let his kid go. You do just 1 job for the mob and they got your by you caj**nes. Casey said he followed the Atlanta cops for a few days but he sure didn't learn much. The film had poor police procedures that even I, a civilian would not use. No wonder this film went straight to video. I never heard of it until I borrowed this from my local library. Skip this.
bobthemag2
So, should you watch or not? Yes if you like shoot'em up films. The characters are dirty and gritty. It has a lot of great actors in it. I like them all and they all do a great job. I didn't even know that was Kate Winslett as the Russian. Is this an Oscar contender, of course not. None of the movies I like ever are.
Roj
Sometimes a movie that starts off with lots of disjointed scenes can have real punch as you piece together the snippets of story - it can be quite satisfying as things drop into place and the story becomes fully coherent. Sadly this movie jumps from scene to scene and that disjointed feeling lasts until the end. There is a story and there is some sense to it but it just doesn't gel as a movie.The police are depicted as bumbling, incompetent and corrupt but this is so exaggerated (I hope!) that it means there is no sense of realism whatsoever. The movie doesn't build empathy with any of the characters or even tell you much about them, in any case virtually all of them are unpleasant, so I was left not really caring what happened to any of them. OK to watch if you don't expect too much depth.
AD
