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I rented this from Red Box.

Well the idea for the story sounds pretty solid itself. But the film is poorly excited. Much of the writing is bad and the dialog clunky. When the lady cop and her rookie partner are talking, I would swear it's like listening to dialog and acting straight out of The Room.
Many of the plot threads that are started see to go nowhere. Nick Cage's acting is really good as he tends to be but again, he's the best in the film and the only one really trying. Well that and the kid. The kid playing Kenny is pretty decent for a child actor. And I will say the guy playing Steve isn't awful.
My main problem is with the villains. The merc team robbing this bank are supposed to be super intelligent and crafty in getting out of these situations. Yet in the end they literally rush out hauling heavy bags of money on their shoulders into the line of fire of the swat team and other cops and get gunned down in seconds. Yeah... brilliant plan there guys.
The film falls flat in action sequences, realism and lots of stupid characters. One construction worker even stupidly and for unknown reasons elects to sprint into the line of fire between the cops and thugs and gets shot... like what did you think would happen dummy? And at one point the kind is shown suddenly to apparently be very smart with electronics and is able to rig a phone charger with a key and a 9 volt battery to charge his cellphone... but nowhere else in the film does he do anything remotely like that aside from getting his head shoved down a toilet by bullies.

It's not exactly a terrible movie. But it's not good either. It's boring, slow, predictable, and has stupid "smart" bad guys.


Here is a link to my Two Scraps review of this film on Scrap.tf.
Https://scrap.tf/raffles/PQ2L2B.

Mistake Status: Found a few when rented. May buy Nick cage movies in the future to go through again.

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Continuity mistake: At the scene of the first shootout, Major Moss is looking at the Construction CEO's passport and speaking, looking down at it. When it cuts to a different angle as the guy next to him asks "War profiteering?", the Major is suddenly looking straight ahead at the female Interpol agent in front of him. (00:09:05)

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