This thriller stars a new face, Frida Farrell as Jane, a "contract killer" for some shadowy US intelligence organization, ostensibly the CIA.
She is framed by her handlers for killing a man (a contract)and is poisoned while dining with her husband. The husband dies, but she survives. The rest of the movie involves Jane accomplishing one remarkable feat of escape after another that would impress even James Bond.
In the era of Casino Royale, Thunderball, and License to Kill, we are accustomed to seeing our man Bond do these incredible stunts, getaways and destruction. After all, he is James Bond.
Here we have a young female whose husband has just been murdered who manages to escape multiple police and other agents while exposing a massive corruption scheme in her own organization. All this with her gun, her computer, some dorky Aussie she picks up, and another agent who she "convinces" to believe her.
The cops and and the agent are completely ineffective. A sniper misses the target not once but several times. This is the same sniper who, later, after joining forces with Jane, can hit a man in a moving helicopter 100yds away with one shot.
My beef with this movie is not the concept, but with the execution. Jane is simply too good and everyone else is too bad. The suspension of disbelief runs out about midway through the film.
I can't recommend this film highly to action buffs because the lady doesn't really know how to fight. She does a couple of quick moves but the camera doesn't really show anything.
Her opponents always stand too close so she can either kick the gun out of their hands or she can grab it and turn it on them. It's simply ludicrous to believe that trained agents would act so stupidly.
I get my hopes up every time one of these "thrillers" comes out, but each time I am disappointed. I want to see films where bad guys are not stupid and good guys are not infallible or invincible.
She is framed by her handlers for killing a man (a contract)and is poisoned while dining with her husband. The husband dies, but she survives. The rest of the movie involves Jane accomplishing one remarkable feat of escape after another that would impress even James Bond.
In the era of Casino Royale, Thunderball, and License to Kill, we are accustomed to seeing our man Bond do these incredible stunts, getaways and destruction. After all, he is James Bond.
Here we have a young female whose husband has just been murdered who manages to escape multiple police and other agents while exposing a massive corruption scheme in her own organization. All this with her gun, her computer, some dorky Aussie she picks up, and another agent who she "convinces" to believe her.
The cops and and the agent are completely ineffective. A sniper misses the target not once but several times. This is the same sniper who, later, after joining forces with Jane, can hit a man in a moving helicopter 100yds away with one shot.
My beef with this movie is not the concept, but with the execution. Jane is simply too good and everyone else is too bad. The suspension of disbelief runs out about midway through the film.
I can't recommend this film highly to action buffs because the lady doesn't really know how to fight. She does a couple of quick moves but the camera doesn't really show anything.
Her opponents always stand too close so she can either kick the gun out of their hands or she can grab it and turn it on them. It's simply ludicrous to believe that trained agents would act so stupidly.
I get my hopes up every time one of these "thrillers" comes out, but each time I am disappointed. I want to see films where bad guys are not stupid and good guys are not infallible or invincible.