An Honest Review

Rating: 10/10 (12 December 2016)

Well, fair warning, there is no serious action. Aliens don't invade earth. There is no shoot out. There is one car chase, more of a race, and a failed one at that. In fact, there isn't anything that most people born after 1990 need included to actually like the movie.
So, if you are a millennial, be prepared to call it "boring." Instead it is tense thriller, one about a close tragedy that keeps the audience on the tip of their toes despite the fact that, yeah, we already sort of know it will all turn out OK in the end. I mean, it is based on real life events and yet...it is still able to keep the audience gasping, to make them feel how tense and worried everyone is.
That alone would make the film brilliant, but on top of that we have characters. The cast is great and Howard takes the time to develop them, to make it clear they are all different people with different personalities. That is something you hardly ever see in today's films where almost everyone seems interchangeable.
The lines one character delivers is true to that character and won't exactly fit coming out of the mouth of any other character. It is always nice when directors and writers take the time to give characters depth, especially in what is more or less an action movie.
Two thumbs way up, ten stars, if you don't need action to keep you entertained than this is a movie for you.