Weak to say the least plot. Unconvincing characters combined with pretty average to bad acting from almost everyone involved. Atrocious mistakes splattered all over the narrative and completely disorientating scenery. The fact that apparently the budget was limited offers little to no excuse for the director to deliver such product. On the contrary, it should have worked the other way around and force him and the screenwriter to double check their every turn.
For example there is some kind of chasing going on with car and buggies during which the buggies attempt to intercept the car by going further up the hill only to end up catching up with the car when it magically reemerges into the scene from a higher altitude than them. You gotta watch it to realize the magnitude of the screw up.
On top of everything, it sends all kind of wrong messages combined with some good ones, a dangerous cocktail when it comes to the supreme teacher which is the movies.
A bullied boy, just a day after he gets punched at school, goes on a hunting trip with his dad who tries to toughen him up by teaching him how to use a weapon. Nothing against hunting but the combo and its time frame is at least questionable.
The hunting starts and father and son end up hunting for deer at a location which looks more like a camping site than a deer hunting ground. The fact that the camera starts to emerge in order to show the forest, only to stop midway is childish. A guy throws a safe key where he hid a couple of million dollars a few meters away from his policeman accomplice and acts like he just threw it into an erupting volcano from which nothing can be retrieved. The father while trying to protect his son from the policeman, who managed to shoot the other guy at the right shoulder while standing 1 meter away from him and is now pointing the gun at his son (who for some reason apparent only to the creators of this film started running in a direction the crooked cop could see him, instead of going the other way where he would have been out of sight) shoots him dead on the spot, but instead of calling the other cops like any sane person would have done, takes the injured guy to his house and convinces his wife to perform a surgery on the spot.
Then they leave their kid who just witnessed a murder unguarded and the guy who got shot point blank miraculously wakes up and kidnaps both son and father while the mother tries to catch up by running behind the car, exactly like in the movies. This kidnapper, who apparently is a pretty stand up guy, ends up with the kid in a forest hideout the location to which only he and his girlfriend know.
Leaving aside the fact that Willis admits to the father that he was searching for this guy for months and was unable to locate him in this hideout, without explaining to us why, its incredible how suddenly everyone can locate this secret hideout easily and the place ends up getting packed with cops, crooked and good ones.Meanwhile, one of the crooked cops who must have broken or seriously injured his wrist trying to get out of the handcuffs the father put on him, kidnaps the mother and puts her in the normal police vehicle he was driving logically but at the scene she is forced off a range rover type of police car, while the cop also magically completely recovers from his hand injury.
After everything is resolved we get the final hammering when one of the good policemen happily gives an interview smiling about the recovery of the money, failing to realize or mention that half the police force who are now dead where the ones behind the heist.
I mean, I cannot believe the things I'm writing right now. Anyway, even though I could go on and on and on, I just hope a few people can avoid wasting an hour and a half for this. The fact that a superstar in Bruce Willis acts as one of the main characters is the true story behind this one.
Only decent thing here is the main story idea and the quite good plot point when Willis turns bad, but this makes the fact that it was shot this way even more frustrating.
For example there is some kind of chasing going on with car and buggies during which the buggies attempt to intercept the car by going further up the hill only to end up catching up with the car when it magically reemerges into the scene from a higher altitude than them. You gotta watch it to realize the magnitude of the screw up.
On top of everything, it sends all kind of wrong messages combined with some good ones, a dangerous cocktail when it comes to the supreme teacher which is the movies.
A bullied boy, just a day after he gets punched at school, goes on a hunting trip with his dad who tries to toughen him up by teaching him how to use a weapon. Nothing against hunting but the combo and its time frame is at least questionable.
The hunting starts and father and son end up hunting for deer at a location which looks more like a camping site than a deer hunting ground. The fact that the camera starts to emerge in order to show the forest, only to stop midway is childish. A guy throws a safe key where he hid a couple of million dollars a few meters away from his policeman accomplice and acts like he just threw it into an erupting volcano from which nothing can be retrieved. The father while trying to protect his son from the policeman, who managed to shoot the other guy at the right shoulder while standing 1 meter away from him and is now pointing the gun at his son (who for some reason apparent only to the creators of this film started running in a direction the crooked cop could see him, instead of going the other way where he would have been out of sight) shoots him dead on the spot, but instead of calling the other cops like any sane person would have done, takes the injured guy to his house and convinces his wife to perform a surgery on the spot.
Then they leave their kid who just witnessed a murder unguarded and the guy who got shot point blank miraculously wakes up and kidnaps both son and father while the mother tries to catch up by running behind the car, exactly like in the movies. This kidnapper, who apparently is a pretty stand up guy, ends up with the kid in a forest hideout the location to which only he and his girlfriend know.
Leaving aside the fact that Willis admits to the father that he was searching for this guy for months and was unable to locate him in this hideout, without explaining to us why, its incredible how suddenly everyone can locate this secret hideout easily and the place ends up getting packed with cops, crooked and good ones.Meanwhile, one of the crooked cops who must have broken or seriously injured his wrist trying to get out of the handcuffs the father put on him, kidnaps the mother and puts her in the normal police vehicle he was driving logically but at the scene she is forced off a range rover type of police car, while the cop also magically completely recovers from his hand injury.
After everything is resolved we get the final hammering when one of the good policemen happily gives an interview smiling about the recovery of the money, failing to realize or mention that half the police force who are now dead where the ones behind the heist.
I mean, I cannot believe the things I'm writing right now. Anyway, even though I could go on and on and on, I just hope a few people can avoid wasting an hour and a half for this. The fact that a superstar in Bruce Willis acts as one of the main characters is the true story behind this one.
Only decent thing here is the main story idea and the quite good plot point when Willis turns bad, but this makes the fact that it was shot this way even more frustrating.