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Strange characters, inconsistent acting ruined it.


Cusack and the kid gave pretty good performances.....but everyone else was pretty awful. The bad guys were particularly terrible. Their characters were just bizarrely out-of-place for supposedly being contract killers. Freeman was ok, but his role is basically the same role he played in Hard Rain (the sympathetic bad guy who's really not all that bad). This film had some potential but the characters lack of believability ruined it for me. Not even Megan Dodds could save this one....

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I am far, far away from being a movie person. However, I agree with everything you said. Every single actor outside of Cusack, his son, and Freeman was disastrous. The FBI agents were a cringe-worthy.

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