sirfire Quote "What's wrong with you? You seemed to have swallowed a large poisonous insect?" Quote 2 "I've been drugged, kidnapped and driven through the desert in the trunk of a "beeping" rental car and forced to watch you blow two men apart. The last part I am willing to forgive. But I will not have you call me baby!"Can anyone believe that this was made in 2003??? The script is just too stupid to believe Gary Oldman and Ving Rhames said yes without a gun to their heads.Direction issues.. Sister has overdosed and magically this women who only knew she was in trouble turns to the graveyard to help save her?Bill Sage looks more like a porn star than a police officer and the porn star in the early scene looked more like the town drunk than a porn star.Then hero Ving Rhames catches one of the men who raped his sister and beats him up then the police sirens are in the background suggesting they are coming. The bad guy says "diplomatic immunity" and instead of running away the hero shoots him dead. It is worth watching cause frankly it's impossible to believe they allowed it to be released. The writers are probably working for CSI series now!

Boba_Fett1138 I watched this movie for two reasons; The amazing Gary Oldman and for the music by Michael Giacchino of whom I'm a fan ever since his "Medal of Honor" scores. The movie was not completely a waste of time but it also was far from good.Man to blame is I think director Michael Stevens, you can tell by looking at this movie that he is just too unexperienced. There are some well executed sequences but there are way more scene's that are just poorly done also due to some weird and dumb camera positions and some poor editing. Michael Stevens tries to impress the viewer with some shots of nature, it only works distracting and doesn't do much good to the pace. Maybe he should consider a career as documentary maker?The story is also quite a problem. It takes a while before you understand what the movie is all about. Once you pick up the story the movie is actually not bad, it's just that it has been done about a hundred times before.Ving Rhames tries but he just ain't no good leading actor, I liked his costume but that's about all the positive I can say. Gary Oldman is in his element as psychopathic villain. He played a lot of roles like this before but in his case you just never get tired of it. Brian Cox is also excellent in a small supporting role. And keep an eye on Arie Verveen, I expect great things for him in the future.If you can ignore the bad dialog, story, plot-holes and directing you'll see that there is some good in this movie and that it is a watchable one that is fairly entertaining as an action movie but not a must see in any way.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Bon_Jovi_chick Its a wee bit of a shame. The whole film had a terrific idea to it and I liked the twist in the plot on why Charlie Strom (Gary Oldman) was after Eddie Burns (Ving Rhames) and we see a side to Charlie of being a tortured soul out for revenge rather than a villain (this is not an excuse on the things he did to Burns' sister but it was still a nice touch). The whole thing though was flat and a wee bit too predictable.The only actor who stood out was Gary Oldman (who was the only reason I watched this film- otherwise I wouldnt have bothered!) Ill watch it again but only because Gary does a good part in it..... and nothing else. 6/10

info-astute This movie is another crime movie, about the police, betrayal and sex. And of course some cockfights between the ego's of the criminals. Acting is allright, story is good. The only bad thing of this movie is that it isn't any special. Don't go see it in the cinema but rent it, or maybe buy it in the budget section.