Reviews

People putting the phone away before they finish talking.

Lana (the hero) taking her helmet and goggles off many times before being done with disarming the bomb.

Lana flicking the switch in the room where the bomb is found in a very amateurish begginers' mistake fashion.

Reconstruction of a car bomb in the lab and then taking pictures of it to then look at the pictures on a screen that is just a couple meters from the reconstructed bomb.

The lads that keep playing football after eight police vehicles arrive at the field screeching with full sirens and blue lights on, officers running out and shouting they must leave quickly, but no, they still play on, getting angry at the car that just arrived and stopped in the middle of the field.

Lana just leaning against the patrol car uninterested while the boss just arrived showing critical info on her ipad.

And where's the rest of the bomb squad when there is a bomb to disarm? Only Lana shows up and does her ritual hand gesturing with the guy that helps her put the protective vest on before leaving for the bomb.

John not being prepared with a burner phone when only he can detonate the bomb because the guy with the "two phones" gets sniped out.

And the "only guy" with two phones gets out of hiding and out on the balcony to be killed before he can activate the bomb.

And on and on...

So many little things all over. So many details that should have been evident after the first screening.

Sloppy acting, sloppy direction and sloppy script.

Who signed off on this?

They really tried. You can see it at every step of the way. But no. No success. It's slow and that's pretty much it. Move slowly. Speak sparsely.

Loved the scene when he gets hit with the door and the camera rolls with him. Excellent.

Then it doesn't do much more this movie. Nobody really reacts to the smelly, dirty, bloodied, beat up man with the very clean white manicured hands.

Depthless characters and story.

I'm sure a european director would have made of this film what it might have, what it wanted to be. But alas. No deal.

I'll be waiting for the adaptation coming from France, or England, or any of those countries where slow films are made properly and not a struggle as this one evidently was.