Line of Duty

Aaron Eckhart is one of the best and most talented actors. No matter what kind of role he played, he just looked the part, the real deal. He played an uniformed cop in this movie and just looked like a cop.

What I have to point out is the bad chasing scenes when he and the kidnapper No.1 like Marathon runners...eh, well, more like supermen. They kept running so long but didn't seem to be tired or even got short breath. Usually, no matter how your cardio condition might be, running so long and still got the strength to fight was just impossible. The chasing scene was just over-the-top ridiculous. I don't know where the kidnapper hid his gun, but during the running, he got no problem to have knife and gun suddenly pulled out like magician is another ridiculous and highly unlikely stupid arrangement. When he ran, we didn't see any place on his body show that he's carrying a knife or a gun, yet he could pull a knife or gun from nowhere.

The thing I hated most when watching a movie was when the director treated us like blind moron. There's no way both guys could run so long and still got the energy and strength to fight, after running so long and so hard, both should be collapsed right away if they stopped. Courtney Eaton played the annoying naive, shallow and self-righteous Ava Brooks role is another reason that made me feel so disgusted. A role that's just felt so ridiculous.

I literally just made an IMDb account so I could write this review... and say how absolutely insufferable the obnoxious Gen Z-er with hashtags for brains is. Not exaggerating-with every single line she, or her token friend spoke, I grew more nauseous. I've never been so irritated by a bratty character as I was trying to watch this film. I would've even been able to overlook the preposterously unbelievable plot and exaggerated use of social media and phone cameras in general enough to sit through a whole hour if not for this incessant nagging little sprite that someone apparently thought would add value.

Aaron Eckhart is great to watch, but he couldn't save this one from major cringe factors. The two female internet reporters are so clichéd and every single line they uttered made me cringe to the max. They really added nothing to the plot, nor did the entire media narrative element of this story. What's the takeaway? The media are terrible? Or great? Or all women reporters are...? I honestly don't know what the point of it all was. Even the big bad network anchor-another disappointing female character-made me roll my eyes every second she was onscreen because she and everything around her were just so unbelievable. I suspect the executive producers had a hand in injecting some female characters in what might have otherwise been an entertaining action flick; they ruined it. Aaron Eckhart is the one who got the short end of the stick on this. I hope he got paid well.

.... no concentration required! Very hammy script and acting, but hey, one for the scrapbook AE!

Mediocre thriller that ends up being a bit frustrating to watch because it has some well done action sequences, but the script is so bad that any good will one might have is completely destroyed by all the dumb decisions that every character makes. Aaron Eckhart tries his best and he never phones it in but there are no miracles when dealing with this dreck. Again, some credit must be made to the action scenes which are OK, but this is the living proof that most of the times style does not win over substance.