Read the book and you'll see why this is so so bad and unworthy.

Rating: 1/10 (21 February 2020)

Having been a huge fan of AJ Quinnell for a couple of decades I was excited to see the movie. Sam Elliott originally played the main character now butchered by Washington.. which for the record I adore. But this is an absolute crap show. The books are suspenseful, tragic, based in Malta and Europe on the whole and nothing about this film gives or does credit to the actual story it's based on. The filming style itself is an epileptics nightmare and the ending should have been much different and everything about it was wrong. An absolute disappointment from minute one to the final scene. If they'd called it anything else and not tried to ride of the fan tails of Quinnells fan base it may have had some merit although the aforementioned terrible shooting style would have still made this hard to watch. One of the beat things about Quinnells books are they're not entirely predictable, in fact they are possibly the best of this genre I've read (start at the very beginning although you'll struggle to find them now as they're out of print) However this movie is formulaic and utter crap. Terribly shot, awful casting acting, adaptation, everything. It's all wrong...if I could give negative stars I would.