I like Bruce Willis movies as a rule, and I wanted to like this one. However, the more I thought about it after the movie was over, the less I like it, and it was wearing thin even by the end.
I think this started out as a concept: Well, see, there's this super secret code, and this little boy breaks it ... let's make it an AUTISTIC boy for more punch. Then the guys that made the code are Embarrassed, so they have to try to kill him. Then Bruce finds him and has to save him OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER again, while virtually NOTHING ELSE that makes any sense at all happens. Wow, can we get a script?!?!"
In reality, if something this unlikely happened, the agency involved wouldn't try to wipe out the kid and his family, they'd soon have him looking over enemy coded transmissions. LOL
The end of the movie was far too chopped off. One minute, everyone on the boy's side is in big trouble. The next minute an FBI assault force is breaking in on the meeting and Bruce is even in the helicopter that shows up. It smells to high heaven of people who wrote themselves into a corner and had no idea how to make it work ... so they didn't make it work, and it showed.
Give this one a pass and instead watch any movie with an actual plot.
I think this started out as a concept: Well, see, there's this super secret code, and this little boy breaks it ... let's make it an AUTISTIC boy for more punch. Then the guys that made the code are Embarrassed, so they have to try to kill him. Then Bruce finds him and has to save him OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER again, while virtually NOTHING ELSE that makes any sense at all happens. Wow, can we get a script?!?!"
In reality, if something this unlikely happened, the agency involved wouldn't try to wipe out the kid and his family, they'd soon have him looking over enemy coded transmissions. LOL
The end of the movie was far too chopped off. One minute, everyone on the boy's side is in big trouble. The next minute an FBI assault force is breaking in on the meeting and Bruce is even in the helicopter that shows up. It smells to high heaven of people who wrote themselves into a corner and had no idea how to make it work ... so they didn't make it work, and it showed.
Give this one a pass and instead watch any movie with an actual plot.