AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

suite92 Jean Jacket wakes up in a closed room where the one exit is locked by passcode. Other prisoners are present, and most seem worse for the wear. Jean Jacket pounds on the door and raises a holler or ten, but gets no attention. He takes a phone call, and takes notes, but seems not to know what it was about.Broken Nose, Bound Man, Handcuffed Man, and Rancher Shirt wake up soon there after, and the four of them try to figure out who they are and why they are together.Elsewhere, Eliza cooperates with law enforcement to get her husband back.Snakeskin Boots intercepts the hostage money and eludes the police; he calls the trapped men and tells them he will meet with them before sundown. Bound Man finds a gun, but Jean Jacket takes it away from him. They discover instructions about the toxic gas stored in canister around the rooms. It can cause temporary memory loss in small doses. Broken Nose begins to remember a bit later; he was one of the abductees. He talks to Rancher Shirt, the other abductee. Rancher Shirt tries to get the gun from Jean Jacket, but fails.Broken Nose frees Bound Man, and the anger rises and partial memories surface. Jean Jacket gives Handcuffed Man some water, but cannot get the handcuffs off.The last two kidnappers are coming with the money. Two cops are tailing them with mixed success. Erin is in despair about losing her husband. The men in the room with memory loss are cooperating to find a way out before the kidnappers come.How does this pan out? Be prepared for twists and turns as the memories surface.------Scores-------Cinematography: 8/10 No problems.Sound: 9/10 Well done.Acting: 7/10 Jim Caviezel, Bridget Moynihan, Peter Stormare, and Joe Pantoliano were excellent. On the other hand, Greg Kinnear was unconvincing as usual; with every line he speaks, I look for an indication that it's a joke or a bluff. I only believe his insincerity. Jeremy Sisto disappoints as always. Screenplay: 9/10 Kept me guessing to the end.

gavin6942 Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.The general concept of people trapped in a location and then having to find out who the others are is not new. In fact, it seems to have become its own subgenre. However, rarely has a film with this theme featured so many talented actors, including two who are well-known for having portrayed Jesus Christ. That is quite an honor: two saviors in one film.There are shortcomings. Some of the flashbacks are annoying, and I do not care for the filming style they used for those (the colors are awful). Another reviewer compared the film to "Reservoir Dogs"... and while they are wholly different, there is a scene or two that might call to mind the Tarantino classic.

sol ***SPOILERS*** Waking up from what seemed like a drug induced sleep Dreamy Eyes, James Caviezel, finds himself locked in a deserted wear-house with four other persons. There's Crew-cut, Berry Pepper, Glasses, Joe Pantoliano, Broken Nose, Greg Kinnear, and handcuffed, Jeremy Sisto, who's got himself stuck hanging on the railing with a bullet lodged in his chest. As all five men slowly regain consciousness they can't remember who they are and why they all ended up there! But it's Dreamy Eyes in answering a phone call in the wear-house's office who starts to put the pieces together in his and the four confused men with him's minds.As it turns out Dreamy Eyes and those with him had something to do with a kidnapping which must have gone wrong when the victim and possibly his bodyguard tried to make a brake for it. In doing that they set off an explosion of chemicals that caused everyone, the kidnapped and the kidnappers, to lose their memories! Dreamy Eyes as well as those with him knows that if something goes wrong and the ransom money isn't paid to the kidnappers lead by the snakeskin booted Big Buba,Peter Stormare, and his crew of cut throat's that consists of Uzi, Ben Bray, Iron Cross, Jeffery Daniel Philips, and Pony-Tail, Thomas Rosales Jr, they'll be hell to pay. In the kidnapped victim and his bodyguards getting offed by Big Buba and his crew when they come back to the wear-house empty-handed! The problem is who's the kidnapped and who's part of the kidnapped crew among the five who can't remember just who they are!***SPOILERS**** With a trap set at the payoff drop point by the police Big Buba and his boys end up eluding capture and head straight for the warehouse where they plan to murder the kidnap victims anyway. It's the cops who without Big Buba realizing it who've got the upper hand on him and his gang by having a mole, undercover policeman, among those in the wear-house. Someone that Big Buba & Co. trusted to make sure that their kidnapped victims are kept safe until he and his boys arrive. It's when the four man, minus Handcuffed who by then had expired from his gunshot wounds, started to regain their memories that sides were drawn for the final confrontation when Big Buba and the boys finally show up!Confusing as hell of a movie in trying to figure just who's who, among the kidnappers and kidnapped, in the wear-house which only Big Buba and his crew really know. Even after all the dust cleared it took a while to figure out what exactly was going on in that your kept guessing with an unexpected and extra bonus thrown in to scramble your already scrambled brains. That's in the undercover policeman having a lot more to do with the kidnap victim then even those who knew, Big Buba and the police, about it. He was secretly having and affair with the kidnap victims wife, Bridget Moynahan, while trying to rescue her husband. This suddenly hits him, the undercover policeman, when she in embracing her just rescued husband winks at him! And the undercover cop with the chemicals that made him forget everything now completely worn off, and him finally getting his head together, winks back! That together with the ransom money that he had on him and was prepared to split with her that he now decided to return to her husband!

ladymoonpictures Okay, there is some 'action' scenes that make it good for a 2-hour getaway. But c'mon! It's laughable beyond the action when one considers for a moment what it's trying to make us accept or believe.Such as: --Forgetting the 'brief case' with all the pass ports, information is unfathomable. -- He rushes back to the airport to get it without so much as a hint to the 'wife' that he's doing so. -- What does 'oz' mean everywhere? Another blogger already noticed that. -- Why did the 'wife' go into the suite to onhook the bomb because her face still would've been recorded when they were there 3 months prior anyway! -- And why didn't she break the wall out further to get to the bomb deactivate system, rather than reaching down blindly down through the wall and blowing herself up anyway? -- Why did the hardened, East German spy readily eat cyanide just because that old rogue showed up at his apartment? Why'd he give in so soon, when he could've killed him as a trespasser or robber? -- Why was it that the only two people catching a train was Liam and the other hit dude? -- Save your money and go see instead: Barney's Version.