A waste of an interesting idea!

Rating: 4/10 (1 February 2012)

Great idea, very poorly executed. The two leads, Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried did not mesh and much of the acting was wooden and just not believable. Why does Hollywood always turn movies into chases and gun play. They could have taken this idea and gone in a hundred different ways, but instead turned it into your typical action movie. Once you get past the innovative idea, you could plop these characters into any number of films that follow this plot device. What a shame!
There are some excellent actors in this film but unfortunately the two weakest are the two leads. I think Amanda Seyfried can carry a film, but I do not think that Justin Timerlake is a strong enough actor to play the leading man. It just seems like he is really grasping at the ability to show the emotion necessary for some of the more dramatic scenes. If you watch the first 30 minutes, you've seen the best of this film.