The movie had more potential, if they took the "cliffhanger" ending and developed that to its probable conclusion -- while cutting the carbon copy derivative material, and video game hyper violence.
Mel Gibson must be hard up for work. He was substantially miscast; or, he couldn't deliver anything other than his usual schtick. There is more within him, as demonstrated in The Professor and the Madman (2019). But he didn't deliver it here, and the story didn't provide enough room for it.
Several of the performances were extremely competent, and carried the movie further than it otherwise would have gone before drowning -- namely, Annie Ilonzeh and Dermot Mulroney.
At this stage in his career, Mulroney has the potential to get cast as a more intelligent and sophisticated Sam Elliott. He is delivering similar "cool swagger," so long as he doesn't actually try to do it, and thus overplay it. It's like the Clint Eastwood understated thing -- hint, hint.
Best to download this movie, and forward through the plotless scenes of gratuitous vioilence, unless you are a comicon gamer who thrives on the Ukraine War, the Iran-contra affair, and the dictatorships installed as USA banana republics, or the Shah of Iran.
The unrealized potential of this movie demonstrates abject movie studio ineptitude. All the tools were there, and the executives wouldn't let the carpenters build the house.
Mel Gibson must be hard up for work. He was substantially miscast; or, he couldn't deliver anything other than his usual schtick. There is more within him, as demonstrated in The Professor and the Madman (2019). But he didn't deliver it here, and the story didn't provide enough room for it.
Several of the performances were extremely competent, and carried the movie further than it otherwise would have gone before drowning -- namely, Annie Ilonzeh and Dermot Mulroney.
At this stage in his career, Mulroney has the potential to get cast as a more intelligent and sophisticated Sam Elliott. He is delivering similar "cool swagger," so long as he doesn't actually try to do it, and thus overplay it. It's like the Clint Eastwood understated thing -- hint, hint.
Best to download this movie, and forward through the plotless scenes of gratuitous vioilence, unless you are a comicon gamer who thrives on the Ukraine War, the Iran-contra affair, and the dictatorships installed as USA banana republics, or the Shah of Iran.
The unrealized potential of this movie demonstrates abject movie studio ineptitude. All the tools were there, and the executives wouldn't let the carpenters build the house.