Given the caliber of performers involved, one might have anticipated a truly exceptional film. Instead, it proved to be quite disappointing. I couldn't even stick with it for ten minutes, honestly. The narrative felt incredibly flimsy, and there’s really no justification for its shortcomings when you consider films such as "Speed" or "The Taking of Pelham 123." It seemed like the filmmakers depended too much on the a…

This action movie feels like something we've seen before, an unoriginal exercise in the genre sustained mainly by solid, although entirely foreseeable, portrayals from Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones. Jones plays an Irish convict who broke out of prison with a desire for retribution against Bridges, who is presented as a bomb disposal specialist based in Boston. The film incorporates standard thriller elements: char…