Our film opens to a young boy who has been injured in what we are led to believe is a fireworks accident. Our hero Jeff Bridges sees the child in the street and takes him to the hospital.
We later learn that Bridges is a widower who lives across the street from the boy, and has a child of the same age. His wife was an FBI agent who was killed in a botched action. He is also a college professor who happens to teach a class on domestic terrorism. What a coincidence!
As the story progresses Bridges, who we are slowly led to believe is paranoid, starts to suspect his neighbor of not being who he says he is, only to be proven correct. Before he can fully alert his wife's former partner at the FBI, his son is kidnapped so he has to pursue things on his own...only to meet his demise and be framed for being the terrorist himself.
What started off as a pretty good movie, got pretty lazy at the end. Whether it's not alerting the distraught father of the alleged St. Louis bomber that his son maybe really was innocent or not fully confiding in his FBI friend earlier, Bridges suddenly turned dumb. So did the bombers who took a chance on having Bridges screw up their whole plot by not simply offing him, and instead framing him. The FBI would likely easily notice the Lang family connection to both bombers (they were investigated around the first bombing) which could expose the organization.
We later learn that Bridges is a widower who lives across the street from the boy, and has a child of the same age. His wife was an FBI agent who was killed in a botched action. He is also a college professor who happens to teach a class on domestic terrorism. What a coincidence!
As the story progresses Bridges, who we are slowly led to believe is paranoid, starts to suspect his neighbor of not being who he says he is, only to be proven correct. Before he can fully alert his wife's former partner at the FBI, his son is kidnapped so he has to pursue things on his own...only to meet his demise and be framed for being the terrorist himself.
What started off as a pretty good movie, got pretty lazy at the end. Whether it's not alerting the distraught father of the alleged St. Louis bomber that his son maybe really was innocent or not fully confiding in his FBI friend earlier, Bridges suddenly turned dumb. So did the bombers who took a chance on having Bridges screw up their whole plot by not simply offing him, and instead framing him. The FBI would likely easily notice the Lang family connection to both bombers (they were investigated around the first bombing) which could expose the organization.