The story: a victim with guilt takes justice into his own hands and is seeking revenge.
Recently there were two great movies that have the same basic idea.
THE BRAVE ONE - with Jodie Foster
DEATH SENTENCE - with Kevin Bacon
This movie doesn't bring anything new or better to the table, so that works against it.
The non-linear structure of this movie is not necessary, but was certainly used to make the movie appear clever - it isn't.
Ray Liotta as a good guy - waste of villain quality.
The music, when there, is only good for a much much darker movie - like SEVEN.
The director Brian Smrz has 68 appearances as a stuntman, so one can assume to see his experience in this field - NO STUNTS - NO ACTION ABOVE AVERAGE.
If you still want to watch this movie then I should mention the big holes of logic in the story. After an hour runtime logic and normal human thinking is in free-fall. I won't describe it in detail, because I could write about every minute from an hour till the end.
As an example I'll take the hostage scene at the end. The bad guys had plenty of opportunities to kill the main character LIAM , but they preferred to let him kill some of them first , before they are taking a hostage and are luring him out to a showdown. It doesn't matter that the bad guys had no problem to find him regularly before this incident - but now they need a hostage?? The hostage itself is another example how bad the story is. LIAM is a lonely guy, so who is gonna be a hostage? The script author had to construct a car crash with a young girl , who LIAM could rescue and build a friendship. Another nonsense scene with the young girl was , when she came to LIAM's car in the middle of the street at night and alone.And young is here not 16 or 15, the girl looks like 8 or 10 years old! It is really obvious how the script author had to construct the scene with the rescue of the young girl only to get his hostage, so cheap and artificial - just horrible.
You can watch this movie if you are male, your girlfriend is out of town, you have drunk some beer,the night is near,you love B-movies,have no possibility to get a good movie and you just need some company from the TV. The only other possible audience: tasteless and dumb human beings!
I can't imagine why people are giving this movie ratings higher than 6 or are describing the story as good? How can you compare a rating of 10 for this movie with a great movie like DEATH SENTENCE?
Now this movie has an average rating of above 6, but I am certain that when the hardcore Cuba Gooding fans are gone the rating will fall down like a stone.
Recently there were two great movies that have the same basic idea.
THE BRAVE ONE - with Jodie Foster
DEATH SENTENCE - with Kevin Bacon
This movie doesn't bring anything new or better to the table, so that works against it.
The non-linear structure of this movie is not necessary, but was certainly used to make the movie appear clever - it isn't.
Ray Liotta as a good guy - waste of villain quality.
The music, when there, is only good for a much much darker movie - like SEVEN.
The director Brian Smrz has 68 appearances as a stuntman, so one can assume to see his experience in this field - NO STUNTS - NO ACTION ABOVE AVERAGE.
If you still want to watch this movie then I should mention the big holes of logic in the story. After an hour runtime logic and normal human thinking is in free-fall. I won't describe it in detail, because I could write about every minute from an hour till the end.
As an example I'll take the hostage scene at the end. The bad guys had plenty of opportunities to kill the main character LIAM , but they preferred to let him kill some of them first , before they are taking a hostage and are luring him out to a showdown. It doesn't matter that the bad guys had no problem to find him regularly before this incident - but now they need a hostage?? The hostage itself is another example how bad the story is. LIAM is a lonely guy, so who is gonna be a hostage? The script author had to construct a car crash with a young girl , who LIAM could rescue and build a friendship. Another nonsense scene with the young girl was , when she came to LIAM's car in the middle of the street at night and alone.And young is here not 16 or 15, the girl looks like 8 or 10 years old! It is really obvious how the script author had to construct the scene with the rescue of the young girl only to get his hostage, so cheap and artificial - just horrible.
You can watch this movie if you are male, your girlfriend is out of town, you have drunk some beer,the night is near,you love B-movies,have no possibility to get a good movie and you just need some company from the TV. The only other possible audience: tasteless and dumb human beings!
I can't imagine why people are giving this movie ratings higher than 6 or are describing the story as good? How can you compare a rating of 10 for this movie with a great movie like DEATH SENTENCE?
Now this movie has an average rating of above 6, but I am certain that when the hardcore Cuba Gooding fans are gone the rating will fall down like a stone.