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The thrill of the chase is what this movie is all about, and it delivers in spades. What heightens it even more is the fact that it feels realistic. The chase starts of slow, with no information or context given to us as viewers. But as the chase heats up, the layers peel back, and the humanity and horror are slowly revealed.

But what really sucks you into the thrill of it all, are the pair of vulnerable and human performances at the centre of the chase. They give what might have otherwise been over the top genre fair, a real grounding.

At 85 minutes, this movie is the perfect length for a thriller to sustain the tension throughout, without overstaying it's welcome and losing it.

Gina Gershon is obviously the best thing about this neo-noir movie that centres around a high art burglary. She brings the allure and raw appeal of a mysterious femme fatale.

Outside of her, the rest of the cast is serviceable the kind of characters you'd expect in a movie like this. A young hot shot detective, and the grizzly, cynical cigar smoking veteran, do their parts accordingly.

The cinematography does let it down as a neo-noir by being very pedestrian and just looking like a made for TV movie. The pacing is a slow burn and picks up as the movie nears its end, and the mystery is revealed.

Considering this movie probably stars the most believable action actress, a woman who isn't built like a runway model, but instead with muscle mass, it absolutely wastes her.

It takes an interminable age for the plot to kick into gear. The fight scenes are few and far between. And what fight scenes are here, are shot so badly, with terrible camera close camera angles, and shaky cam. Why on earth would a shoot a fright scene from the characters' backs?

No one cares that Gina Carano is a poor actress, you come into this movie to see her convincingly kick major butt, unfortunately the writing and cinematography here has little interesting in actually letting us see her do that.