Finn Knudsen A father and son Chris accidentially get into a "story" with CIA FBI and lokal polise in the wild nature - kind of the hunted good normal people who ends in a refuge situation - all the film keep you waiting for a climax - but the instructur just end the art of a film without an end Very dissapoiointing END !!! Which give me the feeling that this picture isn't made for anything than money without any proud from the director to show how to make a pictuture with a MEANING to the audience to leaave the "theater" with anything than feeling boosted

Paul Magne Haakonsen The premises for this movie is set high. I mean, a thriller starring the talented Morgen Freeman and John Cusack. And I will say that the movie is quite good and entertaining.This movie is about Ray (played by John Cusack) who is out in the woods hiking with his son when they come across Frank (played by Morgan Freeman) who is handcuffed to a dying policeman. Frank is a killer set out to do a contract job. With Frank's associates searching the woods for their boss, Ray and his son must track treacherous terrain with dangerous men in their footsteps.There is a great progress to the movie, and it is constantly up in high gear. There is a lot of thrill and excitement in the movie. And there is a good continuity throughout the entire movie.With Morgan Freeman and John Cusack in the lead roles you know very well what you are in for. And right on the money, they deliver where it counts. And they make it well-worth watching the movie.If you enjoy a good cat-and-mouse thriller then "The Contract" is definitely something that you should check out. It was thoroughly entertained by this movie from start till end.

antoniotierno Probably one of the less interesting films of great names like Morgan Freeman or John Cusack. The setting isn't even half-bad but very constructed though. The delivery is mediocre at best. Considering this is a thriller, very few exciting things happen. It all stays very predictable and leaves the audience somewhat indifferent. The solution is somewhat random, too. Not boring but entirely fails to engage the audience. Which is quite a pity considering what the two male leads could be capable of. Overall a very lame and undistinguished thriller. With poor effects and plenty of phony sets and backdrops. The characters are pretty much all stock caricatures and some of the supporting performances are terrible.

Spikeopath The Contract is directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Stephen Katz and John Darrouzet. It stars Morgan Freeman, John Cusack, Jamie Anderson and Alice Krige. Music is by Normand Corbeil and cinematography by Dante Spinotti. Widower Ray Keene (Cusack) takes his troubled son on a camping trip and ends up trying to bring a well known assassin, Frank Carden (Morgan Freeman), to justice. Not easy since Carden's team are tracking them through the wilderness.A plodding no thrills wilderness hunt type drama without a sense of purpose or suspense. Pic takes a familiar route with characters tainted by family strife or harbouring good hearts beneath bad exteriors, while the script tosses in mundane exchanges at frequent intervals. Cusack and Freeman are on auto-pilot, though the latter seems to be enjoying himself in a bad boy role, and nobody ever convinces us that this is anything but TV movie standard story telling. Spinotti's photography around a mountainous Bulgaria (standing in for Washington State) is the highlight, and what action there is is handled in decent fashion by the director. Yet as various interesting threads are dangled to end up not being pulled, and the formula of genre is adhered to wholesale, you understand why it went direct to video and why all involved have pushed it out of their minds completely. 4/10