Ok so I am a glutton for punsihment. But I thought to myself how far wrong can you go when Harvey Kietel, Helen Mirren and John Voigt are in a movie? World class actors they wouldn’t sell their actings souls for a few extra dollars - they are bigger than that. Then I remembered the magic ingredient to make any movie feel overacted and poorly scripted - Nicolas Cage. I can’t remember a Nicolas Cage movie I actually liked - Snake Eyes had a great trailer, Leaving Las Vegas was self indulgent, Con Air, The Rock, Next… all pretty formulaic hollywood blockbusters.
So the problem with this is that they solve the riddle too quickly, making jumps of deduction that no mortal could possibly make. The stunts aren’t exciting enough and there are no real plot twists. So it is a pretty dull affair. Avoid if possible.
