Not bad, but not good

Rating: 4/10 (25 July 2010)

The movie was okay, but this is the second film written by Kurt Wimmer that I've seen, and his writing skills have not improved. As with Law Abiding Citizen, the dialogue was trite, the action was overdone, and there were holes in the storyline big enough to drive a truck through. More attention should have been paid to character development than seeing how many trucks Jolie's character could jump onto. Why did they automatically think she was a Russian spy and try to kill her? Wouldn't they want to interrogate her first? Why start shooting first thing? And at the end, I'm assuming the president didn't die (or didn't appear to have), so why couldn't they keep her locked up on site until the president came around and told them who dunnit? Because that would have been an easy end, and that's the only reason. This movie was only 99 minutes long, if that, but it could have easily been thirty with the amount of plot it actually contained. Too bad. The premise was interesting.
Lastly, would someone tell Liev Schrieber to stop playing the same role over and over? I knew he was the real bad guy about 10 minutes into the movie.