Tokarev (5/10)

Is Nicolas Cage's receding hairline receding even more?

Anyway, this was a surprise. I didn't even realise this movie exist because I have seen nothing about it; no trailer, no poster, no marketing. And all of a sudden, it's showing at a Kuching cinema. Needless to say, I jumped at it the first chance I got.

Of late, movies headed by Cage have not done well. His last great movie was Kick-Ass and he had a smaller role there. I wonder if it's the curse of Ghost Rider.

Had this movie starred Liam Neeson, it would have been Taken 2.5. Cage's character, too, had a "specific set of skills".

I thought Cage's acting here was quite good, emotional and fierce. Backing him up was Rachel Nichols who looked amazing. Aubrey Peeples, who will headline Jem And The Holograms, had a small role playing Cage's daughter. Peter Stormare stepped in a few times. Danny Glover didn't have much to do here but a few scenes, seems like it's what he's doing these days.

The movie keeps you guessing until the end as to what happened. And the ending would either make you think it's dumb or makes you credit it for not seeing it coming. Either way, there just wasn't enough plot points or storyline to beef itself up as a good movie.

And a couple of scenes were inconsistent with the plot, like the mobs were shooting to kill when clearly they were not supposed to kill. That always gets me going when some scenes created were so out of its context and purely meant to drive the adrenalin.