Boring beginning, good middle, poor ending

Rating: 6/10 (1 March 2014)

This movie ran the gambit going from slow, to entertaining, to laughable. By the end, the viewer is certain that the writers fell into the common Hollywood trap of writing and selling the script before figuring out an ending.
The first twenty minutes or so were terribly slow (we were falling asleep in the theater).
After about 20 minutes, it picked up into a decent combination of an action and mystery movie (i.e., a who-dun-it with violence). When watching, one has to work pretty hard to suspend disbelief, and not think too hard about the characters' motivations.
The movie does pretty well up until about the last 15 minutes. At that point, it becomes clear that the writers (John W. Richardson and Christopher Roach) lacked a vision of how to end their story. The characters' reactions and comments become so unfathomable that your thinking "nobody would ever do/say that". I was left questioning of whether any of the characters were paying attention to what had just happened. The characters' comments during the epilogue make it clear that either the movie was shot out-of order or the ending was not rewritten to reflect changes in the script.
I only knocked off a point for the poor ending. It did not degenerate into a speech about saving the rain forest (kudos of you get that reference) but it left a lot to be desired.