A star studded cast, some good snow filled cinematography and an interesting beginning.
That were the good points. The rest of Deadfall is a cliché ridden intruder in the house whilst being on the run. Actually Eric Bana playing the man on the run goes to several houses even saving a a wife and children from a cruel father.
Bana and Olivia Wilde are siblings who have been involved in a heist and split up when their getaway car gets involved in an accident in the snow.
They hope by splitting up it gives them both a better chance to escape and also stops Bana keeping his mitts off his hot sister!
Bana shoots a police officer dead who arrives to help and goes on to shoot several others as there is a manhunt out for him consisting of some of the stupidest and sexist police officers the USA has.
Wilde ends up with an ex-Olympic boxer (Charlie Hunnam) who is heading home for Thanksgiving after being released from prison for throwing a fight in a betting scam.
At the Thanksgiving dinner it is open house for hostages as Bana just happened to have arrived earlier. There is a vicious showdown which also filled with unintentional laughter.
The acting ranges from the banal to OK. Sissy Spacek is not given much to do, Hunnam is a blank. The story is all over the place, Bana is a cold killer but helps out a stranded mother and her children.
Yet a bit later on, he stops by to have dinner and holds Spacek hostage when there is manhunt after him.
The police are just nauseating with the female deputy having to put up with abuse from fellow officers, one of them being her dad (Treat Williams.) There is harsh violence but the film lacks thrills, characterisation and entertainment.
If a film does not even work as brain dead entertainment, it's in trouble.
That were the good points. The rest of Deadfall is a cliché ridden intruder in the house whilst being on the run. Actually Eric Bana playing the man on the run goes to several houses even saving a a wife and children from a cruel father.
Bana and Olivia Wilde are siblings who have been involved in a heist and split up when their getaway car gets involved in an accident in the snow.
They hope by splitting up it gives them both a better chance to escape and also stops Bana keeping his mitts off his hot sister!
Bana shoots a police officer dead who arrives to help and goes on to shoot several others as there is a manhunt out for him consisting of some of the stupidest and sexist police officers the USA has.
Wilde ends up with an ex-Olympic boxer (Charlie Hunnam) who is heading home for Thanksgiving after being released from prison for throwing a fight in a betting scam.
At the Thanksgiving dinner it is open house for hostages as Bana just happened to have arrived earlier. There is a vicious showdown which also filled with unintentional laughter.
The acting ranges from the banal to OK. Sissy Spacek is not given much to do, Hunnam is a blank. The story is all over the place, Bana is a cold killer but helps out a stranded mother and her children.
Yet a bit later on, he stops by to have dinner and holds Spacek hostage when there is manhunt after him.
The police are just nauseating with the female deputy having to put up with abuse from fellow officers, one of them being her dad (Treat Williams.) There is harsh violence but the film lacks thrills, characterisation and entertainment.
If a film does not even work as brain dead entertainment, it's in trouble.