^leannetjuh^
*mini-spoilers*
Couldn't agree with you more.
Just watched it -- what a disappointment!
I can't believe that Patric, Willis, & Cusack signed on to this.
The acting was so subpar -- I felt like I was watching stand-ins for all three instead of the real deal. How all three of these otherwise fine actors could all be so bad (and look bad) simultaneously -- just wow.
When Willis was holding Beth at gunpoint, he looked like a fish gasping for air. And what was his character thinking? He went to all the trouble to capture her and get her at his place and then the plan is to...walk around fairly aimlessly with her and continue to threaten to shoot her while dodging her Dad?
Cusack was basically superfluous and wasted in this -- all I could think was 'paycheck movie'.
The cinematography was awful; the film stock looked cheap, and what was it with all that yellowish & weird coloration?
I saw at least 3 different scenes (for example, the scene where the guy gets shot at the pool by Willis' sidekick) that were SO obviously set up. Guy will get shot and fall backward into the pool that he is conveniently placed in front of. In fact, they showed the same framed set-up for that shot at least twice -- how predictable, lazy, and was the editor asleep or something? Amateurish.
The music s*cked and at times nearly drowned out the dialogue, combined with mumbled delivery of some lines, to the point that I almost put captions on so I knew what they were saying -- but didn't miss much as the writing fairly s*cked, too. Backstory of the characters is rushed and half-as*ed, like so much filler.
Beth's friend does just one little snoot in the club bathroom, which immediately turns her into a totally spaced out, drugged up vixen -- must have been some really ultra powerful powder (smh). So unrealistic.
Patric as the big bad 'Prince' -- he basically was able to shoot, shoot, shoot as if the bad guys were some cutouts just waiting to be shot. Except for the hand-to-hand fight at the end, and again a telegraphed scene. The bad guy is strategically placed in front of the railing in such an obvious manner that I said -- well he will shoot him and he will fall backward, over the railing. Yawn.
Other than other characters telling us how big and bad 'the Prince' was supposed to be (like some kind of Keyser Söze), I really didn't see anything that warranted that reputation.
Not.a.good.movie.
~~ Never trust the teller, trust the tale ~ ~ D.H. Lawrence
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