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Decent movie and Brosnan is shining in his later years


I generally see anything thriller/action/drama Pierce has put out since he left Bond. He's done some great stuff. He is now a silver fox and leans into it perfectly. In this one he plays a southern fixer (accent and all), but it's not so much an action movie as a slow burner. It starts off oddball and fun, but slowly as the plot unfolds it becomes a lot more serious.

Pros: Brosnan has never been better. The Southern setting is refreshing and seeing Biloxi and New Orleans instead of some nondescript city is refreshing.

Cons: The shots of them in the car look so bad. It's clearly fake and it takes me out of the scene... and they have a lot of scenes in the car. Morena Baccarin was wrong for the part and she seems to be kinda sleeping through the role.

A random stranger's opinion: It's nothing new and it ends as predictably as you would suspect, but if you're a fan of little thrillers and seeing Pierce on the screen you'll be entertained the whole way through.

Grade: C+

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Not sure why they have to do fake driving scenes all the time in films. So stupid.

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budget issues i would think

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I disagree that the movie is a slow burn. I don't think it ever really takes it foot of the gas plot wise. Completely agree with the car scenes. Could have been a stylistic choice, I guess. If so, a bad one. I wholeheartedly and unequivocally disagree that Morena was miscast. I'm usually not a fan of her acting, I thought she was the best character in the movie.
This reminded me of a movie that would have came out after pulp fiction of Jackie Brown. Seemed like an Elmore Leonard book. Reminded me of out of sight or road dogs.

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