What were my coworkers thinking!

Rating: 3/10 (25 November 2010)

Wow. Can't believe my coworkers raved about this film, or that a film with this cast lineup could be so poor. Everything in this film was clichéd and forced. The plot is nonsense and the characters are undeveloped. Amazingly, the stellar cast lacks chemistry, probably because no matter how hard they might try they can't rise above this mediocre script. Only Brian Cox as a retired Russian spy and young CIA hit-man were remotely interesting. Throughout the movie, there's a sense that the director is just trying to get us all to love seeing these actors together on screen, without bothering to provide a script. As someone said, Bruce Willis, Mary Louise Parker, even John Malkovich in a stinker like this I can see. But Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman! Come on, you two are among the very best in the biz! Did you really need this paycheck!