Another Video Game Movie

Rating: 4/10 (10 March 2015)

Really...it took the director ten years to make this? But for ScarJo, I would have passed on this movie. She's on a career arc toward Streep territory in my world. But, I digress. The premise for the story is not new and the director hasn't really made any effort to put any imagination into it. He doesn't do much with the characters, instead pretty much leaving them to their own devices. Ordinarily not a bad idea when you are directing two major talents, but all he had to do was watch ScarJo in Under The Skin to see what could have worked better here. What we as viewers are left with is a vapid story which seemingly exists as a platform for car chases and gun fights with stereotypical cops and gangsters. While watching I imagined the director sitting on his couch at home playing violent video games and using those as his inspiration. Poor Morgan Freeman meanwhile plays pawn to special effects that add nothing, but clutter to the screen.