Master thief, Will Montgomery (Nicolas Cage), leaves jail after serving 8-years for a heist gone bad. His cohorts (he never gave them up) in crime believe Will has the 10-million somewhere and they want it. They kidnap his daughter Allison (Sami Gayle) as leverage to get that money. Will claims he burned the money before he was caught. What to do? What to do? What to do?
This starts out good up to the time when daughter Allison is kidnapped. Then it becomes too workman-like rushing around to save Allison. Will tries to get the cops to help but they don't believe him either about the 10-million and watch him like a hawk. Vince (Josh Lucas) the former partner in crime who kidnaps Allison plays the role somewhat over the top. Lucas doesn't make a good bad guy and for the most part was too animated, hence: annoying.
So we are left with a chase movie the rest of the way with the cops always in the wrong place and trying catch up. The vehicle stunts were very good and hard to believe they did these stunts during a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. Ouch !
Yes, there are similarities to the movie TAKEN, but in that movie Liam Neeson had fighting skills we agreed with. In here no such karate, Judo or other moves were demonstrated. Bummer.
I like Nicolas Cage, but this movie was kind of disappointing and I just didn't care if Will succeeded with his plan. I must admit that when Will and Vince meet up for their fight at the end it was very exciting and kept me on the edge of my seat. Great choreography. However, that didn't make up for everything that went before. So I have no choice to chalk this up to being disappointing. (5/10)
However, I will still run to a Nicolas Cage movie in the future. It's what I do. HA !
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No.
This starts out good up to the time when daughter Allison is kidnapped. Then it becomes too workman-like rushing around to save Allison. Will tries to get the cops to help but they don't believe him either about the 10-million and watch him like a hawk. Vince (Josh Lucas) the former partner in crime who kidnaps Allison plays the role somewhat over the top. Lucas doesn't make a good bad guy and for the most part was too animated, hence: annoying.
So we are left with a chase movie the rest of the way with the cops always in the wrong place and trying catch up. The vehicle stunts were very good and hard to believe they did these stunts during a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. Ouch !
Yes, there are similarities to the movie TAKEN, but in that movie Liam Neeson had fighting skills we agreed with. In here no such karate, Judo or other moves were demonstrated. Bummer.
I like Nicolas Cage, but this movie was kind of disappointing and I just didn't care if Will succeeded with his plan. I must admit that when Will and Vince meet up for their fight at the end it was very exciting and kept me on the edge of my seat. Great choreography. However, that didn't make up for everything that went before. So I have no choice to chalk this up to being disappointing. (5/10)
However, I will still run to a Nicolas Cage movie in the future. It's what I do. HA !
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No.