This has got to be one of the more insanely bad films I've ever seen, which is saying a lot. The plot holes are Grand-Canyon-sized and the acting is pretty awful, with the exception of the 7-year-old girl, who is quite good. The female lead has a terrible time suppressing her British accent when the tension rises. And half the moments she should look horrified, she has this odd little smile on her face instead. The male lead is at least pleasant to look at, but pretty wooden.
The cinematography is pleasing and the production design not bad at all, although the horrible CGI is intrusive during a pointless car chase sequence and an explosion. But the script and direction, oh my God- just beyond belief. The violent moments are uniformly inept in their cutting.
Continuity and logic problems are so numerous and glaring that you can't even count them.
To take only two:
-how does the poor dude who gets shot early on, and looks near death when they drag him inside, then grow stronger and more robust the more blood he loses?
I just hope the 7-year-old gets some other roles because she has potential :)
The cinematography is pleasing and the production design not bad at all, although the horrible CGI is intrusive during a pointless car chase sequence and an explosion. But the script and direction, oh my God- just beyond belief. The violent moments are uniformly inept in their cutting.
Continuity and logic problems are so numerous and glaring that you can't even count them.
To take only two:
-how does the poor dude who gets shot early on, and looks near death when they drag him inside, then grow stronger and more robust the more blood he loses?
- the way this character figures out where the perpetrator might be is laughable enough, but OK, he is 1.7 miles away. Then the main character has to go on a frantic solo car "chase" that appears to traverse most of downtown Birmingham and involves going down the wrong direction of one-way streets into traffic for at least 1.7 miles??? Ludicrous.
- The way Aasim and Jill eventually get out of the house is so elementary and stupid that you can't believe he hadn't thought of it earlier.
I just hope the 7-year-old gets some other roles because she has potential :)