Such a letdown

Rating: 3/10 (22 March 2012)

I was really excited about this film given it's high rating on IMDb. Boy, was i disappointed. It certainly did not live up to it's hype as "the perfect thriller" or whatever drool i read in a previous review.
Perhaps because i had just finished watching "The Game" with Michael Douglas, which is an incredible thriller with great actors, I had high expectations when i popped this DVD in. Sadly, they were smashed to smithereens.
The acting was blah, the antagonists were incredibly blah. Honestly, some Russian street guy just incidentally gets a hard on for the hero and we are supposed to get satisfaction from that? De Niro wasn't too hot either but i can't say i blame him. Low quality script, what is he supposed to do? Oh right he could have turned it down. But we don't expect even good actors to be able to sift out every dud, especially when there is a fat paycheck slipped into the pages of the lousy script.